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Miroslav Hroch's Social Preconditions of National Revival has
profoundly influenced the study of nationalism since it first
appeared in English translation, particularly because of its famous
three-phase model for describing and analyzing national movements
in Eastern Europe. Contributors to this book explore Hroch's
continued relevance to the field of nationalism studies with four
case studies and two theoretical/historiographic essays. Two case
studies apply Hroch's thinking to Eastern Europe in light of
subsequent historiography, finding that Hroch's ideas remain useful
for understanding national movements in Belarus and among the Kuban
Cossacks. Two further studies apply Hroch's schema to the Mexican
independence movement and contemporary Pakistan ? times and places
that Hroch specifically excluded from his own considerations. The
first theoretical contribution seeks to apply Begriffsgeschichte to
Hroch's work; the second suggests that Hroch's phases form a useful
typology of nationalism, thus facilitating communication between
different branches of nationalism studies. Hroch ends the volume
with his own commentary on the various contributions.
This book was published as a special issue of Nationalities
Papers.
How is pan-nationalism different from other forms of nationalism?
This book explores the diversity of pan-nationalism in both theory
and practice. Drawing on Rogers Brubaker, the book introduces
"pan-nationalism" as a category of practice. It shows that
pan-nationalism implied transcending political frontiers,
intermittently possessed a pejorative subtext, and differed from
unmodified "nationalism" partly due to a retroactively applied
success/failure criterion. Pan-nationalists always look across
political frontiers, but do not always want a single pan-national
state. The book explores the diversity of pan-nationalism through
case studies and a selection of pan-national movements such as:
Habsburg pan-Slavism from both the Slavic and Hungarian
perspective, pan-Saxonism in Europe and North America,
pan-Ethiopianism and pan-Somalism in the horn of Africa, and
pan-Hinduism online. The book will be of interest to students and
researchers of politics including comparative politics, various
forms of nationalism and history. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic
Politics.
This book deals with the waves of revolutions in North Africa
labelled as the Arab Spring. Each of the countries in the region
was affected by the Arab Spring and has experienced specific
processes and consequences. Due to the complexity of the
phenomenon, any kind of comprehensive research and analyses need an
interdisciplinary approach to deal with the Arab Spring from
multiple perspectives. This volume brings together a group of
scholars from various disciplines covering different aspects of the
revolutionary changes in the North African countries. Beyond the
Arab Spring in North Africa collects diverse studies with an
emphasis on specificity. Chapters deal with a wide range of topics
that include both minor as well as major themes. These include the
formation of youth movement in Egypt long before the Arab Spring
and their subsequent participation in the revolution; analysis of
Tunisian women's participation in Arab Spring events; spatial
disparities in Tunisia and their impact on the revolution with
special focus on Sidi Bouzid as one of the socio-economically
weakest areas; rights and social status of sexual minorities in
Tunisia; polemics over the role of New Media as both revolutionary
and contra-revolutionary tools; broader discussion over the
prospects for multilateral cooperation and regional integration in
the studied area; reflection of the Arab Spring in the Czech media;
impact of the work of 'Ali 'Abd al-Raziq on the debates over
political secularism in Islamic society; as well as a general
debate over democratization in North Africa, or Arab states as
such. Beyond the Arab Spring in North Africa will find its readers
in all relevant social sciences dealing in various contexts with
the contemporary North Africa.
Political actors from many different countries locate their home
country as a unique transition point between "the East" and "the
West". The terms "east" and "west" have become highly symbolic, yet
also have a relative meaning, since every place is east of
somewhere, and west of somewhere else. What gives this banal cliche
such irresistible attraction? How does East-West symbolism interact
with other symbolic geographies? This book examines East-West
rhetoric in several different historical contexts, seeking to
problematize its implicit assumptions and analyse its consequences,
particularly in parts of Europe where political actors conflate
local geography with symbolic "Easts" and "Wests". The various
contributions to the book provide an overview of East-West
discourses in scholarly writing; trace the medieval origins of
European East-West symbolism; and discuss East-West discourses in
nineteenth-century Germany, interwar Poland, Yugoslavia and
Transylvania, twentieth-century Finland, Turkey in the late Cold
War and post-Communist Belarus.
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