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Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms (Paperback)
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Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms (Paperback)
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Premature announcements of the eclipse of nation states under
'globalization' and 'empire' stand exposed as the 21st century's
first economic crisis underlines their continuing importance. A
predominantly cultural study of nationalism was unable to resist
the 'globalization' thesis. Focusing on selected Asian cases, this
book argues that nationalisms have always contained political
economies as well as cultural politics. Placing nation-states
centrally in our understanding of modern capitalism, it challenges
the 'globalization' thesis. Rather than eclipse, nations and
nationalisms have undergone changes under the impact of
neoliberalism since the 1970s. Classical 20th century developmental
nationalisms emphasised citizenship, economy and future
orientations. Later cultural nationalisms - 'Asian values',
'Hindutva', 'Confucianism' or 'Nihonjiron' - stressed identity,
culture and past orientations. Amid neoliberalism's flagrantly
unequal political economy, not primarily concerned with material
production or productivity, they glorified static conceptions of
'original' cultures and identities - whether religious, ethnic or
other - and justified inequality as cultural difference. In
contrast to the popular mobilizations which powered developmental
nationalisms, cultural nationalisms throve on neoliberalism's
disengagement and disenfranchisement, albeit partially compensated
by the political baptism of newly enriched groups. Extremist wings
of cultural nationalism in some countries were a function of this
lack of popular support. This book was published as a special issue
of Third World Quarterly.
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