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Written by leading authorities from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North
and South America, this groundbreaking volume offers the first
truly global and critical perspective on human security in the post
9/11 world. The collection offers unique interpretations on
mainstream discourses on human security; blends theory and
comparative analysis of the human security condition in innovative
ways; and opens up the field to a new research agenda in critical
human security to offer a challenging and provocative perspective
on a key global issue.
This important volume provides a clear, concise and comprehensive
guide to the history of Sikh nationalism from the late nineteenth
century to the present. Drawing on A. D. Smith's ethno-symbolic
approach, Gurharpal Singh and Giorgio Shani use a new integrated
methodology to understanding the historical and sociological
development of modern Sikh nationalism. By emphasising the
importance of studying Sikh nationalism from the perspective of the
nation-building projects of India and Pakistan, the recent
literature on religious nationalism and the need to integrate the
study of the diaspora with the Sikhs in South Asia, they provide a
fresh approach to a complex subject. Singh and Shani evaluate the
current condition of Sikh nationalism in a globalised world and
consider the lessons the Sikh case offers for the comparative study
of ethnicity, nations and nationalism.
This book re-examines the relationship between religion and
nationalism in a contemporary Asian context, with a focus on East,
South and South East Asia. Addressing empirical, analytical, and
normative questions, it analyses selected case studies from across
Asia, including China, India, Iraq, Japan, Pakistan, the
Philippines and Sri Lanka and compares the differences and
commonalities between the diverse configurations of nationalism and
religion across the continent. It then goes on to explain reasons
for the regional religious resurgence and asks, is the nation-state
model, aligned with secularism, suitable for the region? Exploring
the two interrelated issues of legacies and possibilities, this
book also examines the relationship between nationalism and
modernity, identifying possible and desirable trajectories which go
beyond existing configurations of nationalism and religion.
Bringing together a stellar line up of contributors in the field,
Religion and Nationalism in Asia will be a valuable resource for
students and scholars of Asian religion and politics as well as
sociology, ethnicity, nationalism and comparative politics.
Long considered a subfield of international relations and political
science, Peace Studies has solidified its place as an
interdisciplinary field in its own right with a canon, degree
programs, journals, conferences, and courses taught on the subject.
Internationally renowned centers offering programs on Peace and
Conflict Studies can be found on every continent. Almost all of the
scholars working in the field, however, are united by an
aspiration: attaining Peace, whether "positive" or "negative." The
telos of peace, however, itself remains undefined and elusive,
notwithstanding the violence committed in its name. This edited
volume critically interrogates the field of peace studies,
considering its assumptions, teleologies, canons, influence,
enmeshments with power structures, biases, and normative ends. We
highlight four interrelated tendencies in peace studies: hypostasis
(strong essentializing tendencies), teleology (its imagined "end"),
normativity (the set of often utopian and Eurocentric discourses
that guide it), and enterprise (the attempt to undertake large
projects, often ones of social engineering to attain this end). The
chapters in this volume reveal these tendencies while offering new
paths to escape them. Visit http://www.rethinkingpeacestudies.com/
for further details on the Rethinking Peace Studies project.
Long considered a subfield of international relations and political
science, Peace Studies has solidified its place as an
interdisciplinary field in its own right with a canon, degree
programs, journals, conferences, and courses taught on the subject.
Internationally renowned centers offering programs on Peace and
Conflict Studies can be found on every continent. Almost all of the
scholars working in the field, however, are united by an
aspiration: attaining Peace, whether "positive" or "negative." The
telos of peace, however, itself remains undefined and elusive,
notwithstanding the violence committed in its name. This edited
volume critically interrogates the field of peace studies,
considering its assumptions, teleologies, canons, influence,
enmeshments with power structures, biases, and normative ends. We
highlight four interrelated tendencies in peace studies: hypostasis
(strong essentializing tendencies), teleology (its imagined "end"),
normativity (the set of often utopian and Eurocentric discourses
that guide it), and enterprise (the attempt to undertake large
projects, often ones of social engineering to attain this end). The
chapters in this volume reveal these tendencies while offering new
paths to escape them. Visit http://www.rethinkingpeacestudies.com/
for further details on the Rethinking Peace Studies project.
This work seeks to provide a fresh examination of the relationship
between religion, identity and security in a globalizing world,
arguing that in order to address human security issues we must seek
a reconceptualization of human security along post-secular lines.
Religion, Identity and Human Security seeks to demonstrate that a
major source of human insecurity comes from the failure of states
around the world to recognize the increasing cultural diversity of
their populations which has resulted from globalization. Shani
begins by setting out the theoretical foundations, dealing with the
transformative effects of globalization on identity, violence and
security. The second part of the volume then draws on different
cases of sites of human insecurity around the globe to develop
these ideas, examining themes such as: securitization of religious
symbols retreat from multiculturalism rise of exclusivist
ethno-religious identities post- 9/11 state religion, colonization
and the 'racialization' of migration Highlighting that religion can
be a source of both human security and insecurity in a globalizing
world, Shani offers a 'critical' human security paradigm that seeks
to de-secularize the individual by recognizing the culturally
contested and embedded nature of human identities. The work argues
that religion serves an important role in re-embedding individuals
deracinated from their communities by neo-liberal globalization.
Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age examines the
construction of a Sikh national identity in post-colonial India and
the diaspora and explores the reasons for the failure of the
movement for an independent Sikh state: Khalistan. Based on a
decade of research, it is argued that the failure of the movement
to bring about a sovereign, Sikh state should not be interpreted as
resulting from the weakness of the 'communal' ties which bind
members of the Sikh 'nation' together, but points to the
transformation of national identity under conditions of
globalization. Globalization is perceived to have severed the link
between nation and state and, through the proliferation and
development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs),
has facilitated the articulation of a transnational 'diasporic'
Sikh identity. It is argued that this 'diasporic' identity
potentially challenges the conventional narratives of international
relations and makes the imagination of a post-Westphalian community
possible. Theoretically innovative and interdisciplinary in
approach, it will be primarily of interest to students of South
Asian studies, political science and international relations, as
well as to many others trying to come to terms with the continued
importance of religious and cultural identities in times of rapid
political, economic, social and cultural change.
Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age examines the
construction of a Sikh national identity in post-colonial India and
the diaspora and explores the reasons for the failure of the
movement for an independent Sikh state: Khalistan. Based on a
decade of research, it is argued that the failure of the movement
to bring about a sovereign, Sikh state should not be interpreted as
resulting from the weakness of the 'communal' ties which bind
members of the Sikh 'nation' together, but points to the
transformation of national identity under conditions of
globalization. Globalization is perceived to have severed the link
between nation and state and, through the proliferation and
development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs),
has facilitated the articulation of a transnational 'diasporic'
Sikh identity. It is argued that this 'diasporic' identity
potentially challenges the conventional narratives of international
relations andmakes the imagination of a post-Westphalian community
possible. Theoretically innovative and interdisciplinary in
approach, it will be primarily of interest to students of South
Asian studies, political science and international relations, as
well as to many others trying to come to terms with the continued
importance of religious and cultural identities in times of rapid
political, economic, social and cultural change.
Religion, Identity and Human Security seeks to demonstrate that a
major source of human insecurity comes from the failure of states
around the world to recognize the increasing cultural diversity of
their populations which has resulted from globalization. Shani
begins by setting out the theoretical foundations, dealing with the
transformative effects of globalization on identity, violence and
security. The second part of the volume then draws on different
cases of sites of human insecurity around the globe to develop
these ideas, examining themes such as: securitization of religious
symbols retreat from multiculturalism rise of exclusivist
ethno-religious identities post- 9/11 state religion, colonization
and the 'racialization' of migration Highlighting that religion can
be a source of both human security and insecurity in a globalizing
world, Shani offers a 'critical' human security paradigm that seeks
to de-secularize the individual by recognizing the culturally
contested and embedded nature of human identities. The work argues
that religion serves an important role in re-embedding individuals
deracinated from their communities by neo-liberal globalization and
will be of interest to students of International Relations,
Security Studies and Religion and Politics.
This book re-examines the relationship between religion and
nationalism in a contemporary Asian context, with a focus on East,
South and South East Asia. Addressing empirical, analytical, and
normative questions, it analyses selected case studies from across
Asia, including China, India, Iraq, Japan, Pakistan, the
Philippines and Sri Lanka and compares the differences and
commonalities between the diverse configurations of nationalism and
religion across the continent. It then goes on to explain reasons
for the regional religious resurgence and asks, is the nation-state
model, aligned with secularism, suitable for the region? Exploring
the two interrelated issues of legacies and possibilities, this
book also examines the relationship between nationalism and
modernity, identifying possible and desirable trajectories which go
beyond existing configurations of nationalism and religion.
Bringing together a stellar line up of contributors in the field,
Religion and Nationalism in Asia will be a valuable resource for
students and scholars of Asian religion and politics as well as
sociology, ethnicity, nationalism and comparative politics.
Written by leading authorities from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North
and South America, this groundbreaking volume offers the first
truly global and critical perspective on human security in the post
9/11 world. The collection offers unique interpretations on
mainstream discourses on human security.
This important volume provides a clear, concise and comprehensive
guide to the history of Sikh nationalism from the late nineteenth
century to the present. Drawing on A. D. Smith's ethno-symbolic
approach, Gurharpal Singh and Giorgio Shani use a new integrated
methodology to understanding the historical and sociological
development of modern Sikh nationalism. By emphasising the
importance of studying Sikh nationalism from the perspective of the
nation-building projects of India and Pakistan, the recent
literature on religious nationalism and the need to integrate the
study of the diaspora with the Sikhs in South Asia, they provide a
fresh approach to a complex subject. Singh and Shani evaluate the
current condition of Sikh nationalism in a globalised world and
consider the lessons the Sikh case offers for the comparative study
of ethnicity, nations and nationalism.
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