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Globalization has brought with it many difficult and contradictory
phenomena: violence, deep national insecurities, religious
divisions and individual insecurities. This book takes a critical
look at three key areas - globalism, nationalism, and state-terror
- to confront common mythologies and identify the root causes of
the problems we face. Too many commentators still argue that
globalization is predominantly a neo-liberal economic phenomenon;
that nation-states are on the way out, and that terror is something
that primarily comes from below. Global Matrix exposes the
limitations of this argument.;The authors explore four main
questions: -- What is the cultural-political nature of contemporary
globalization? -- How adequate, particularly in the context of
nation-states, is a politics of democratic nationalism? -- How are
we to understand new and old nations in the context of changes
across the late twentieth century and into the present? -- Where
does national violence come from and what does it mean for a 'war
on terror'? Written by two leading scholars, this is a lucid study
of what place the nation-state has in a globalizing world that will
appeal to students across the polit
In this classic text, first published in 1977, Tom Nairn memorably
depicts the 'slow foundering' of the United Kingdom on the rocks of
imperial decline, constitutional anachronism and the gathering
force of civic nationalism. Rich in comparisons between the
nationalisms of the British Isles and those of the wider world,
thoughtful in its treatment of the interaction between nationality
and social class, The Break-Up of Britain concludes with a bravura
essay on the Janus-faced nature of national identity. Postscripts
from the Thatcher and Blair years trace the political strategies
whose upshot accelerated the demise of a British state they were
intended to serve. As a second Scottish independence referendum
beckons, a new Introduction by Anthony Barnett underlines the
book's enduring relevance.
In this new, expanded edition, Nairn reviews the issues and
arguments of his classic study, and maintains that the break-up of
Britain has advanced with quite unforeseen speed. The shapes of the
British crisis, in its latest stage are visible in Thatcher's
'phoney counter-revolution', the convulsions of Labour and the rise
of the Social Democrats. The shape of a possible resolution may be
glimpsed in the development of the Alternative Economic Strategy
and in an 'alternative political strategy' capable of responding
the the now more radical nationalisms of Scotland and Wales. This
expanded version of The Break-Up of Britain is frank in
reconsidering the arguments of the first edition and vigorous in
developing them into the present. It will confirm Nairn's matchless
standing on the left as an analyst of British politics.
In this acclaimed study of British statehood, identity and culture,
Tom Nairn deftly dispels the conviction that the Royal Family is
nothing more than an amusing relic of feudalism or a mere tourist
attraction. Instead, he argues that the monarchy is both apex and
essence of the British state, the symbol of a national
backwardness. In this fully updated edition, Nairn's powerful and
bitterly comic prose lays bare Britain's peculiar, pseudo-modern,
national identity-which remains stubbornly fixated on the Crown and
its constitutional framework, the "parliamentary sovereignty" of
Westminster.
Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of
the Italian Communist Party in his early thirties, was arrested by
Mussolini's police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly
before his death ten years later. The posthumous publication of his
Prison Notebooks established him as a major thinker whose influence
continues to increase. Fiori's biography enlarges upon the facts of
Gramsci's life through personal accounts, and through Gramsci's own
writings to relatives and friends. In relating Gramsci's growth as
a political leader and theorist to his private experience, it
offers acute insights into his involvement in the factory councils
movement. It examines his relationship with political opponents,
including Mussolini, and with his comrades within the Communist
Party before and during Gramsci's imprisonment. It is an approach
which seeks to explicate, as well as underscore, the substantial
achievement of one of the most important figures in western
Marxism.
In May 1968, France stood on the verge of full-blooded revolution.
Here a rhythmic, vivid evocation from eyewitness Angelo Quattrocchi
is complemented by Tom Nairn's cool and elegant appraisal to tell
the astonishing story of those heady days. Paris is a seething
battlefield of barricades, burning cars and CS gas. De Gaulle's
riot police publicly inform him that their loyalty can no longer be
taken for granted. Meanwhile students and millions of young
striking workers on the streets raise ideas that had previously
been the sole province of radical philosophers: "To forbid is
forbidden"; "Be reasonable ... Demand the impossible"; "Freedom is
the consciousness of our desires."
Over the past few decades, Tom Nairn has become one of the most
respected and provocative writers on questions of nationalism,
British politics and the constitution. In his seminal essay, "The
Modern Janus," Nairn argued for the democratic necessity of
nationalism in the modern world. Here, in this strikingly original
and timely new work, he addresses the subsequent upheavals caused
by nationalism. In Faces of Nationalism Tom Nairn argues that
nation-building movements from 1750 to 1990 have saved the world
from imperial barbarism. Contrary to many gloomy prognoses
following the Soviet and Yugoslav collapses, Nairn argues that the
chaos feared by so many observers is neither endless nor
one-sidedly destructive. While insisting that nationalism is as
inescapable as ever, Nairn shows how its forms and content are
shifting. The ethnic definition of the national is giving way to
the civic, the "natural" to the designed. Nairn believes that
today's more civic and secular nationalism is a key feature of
modernity and not an archaic reaction against it. Tom Nairn's
wide-ranging discussion takes in Ireland and Palestine, Bosnia and
the Czech and Slovak republics, Cambodia and Rwanda, South Africa
and Scotland. Faces of Nationalism is a work that demands to be
read by anyone wanting to understand one of the central features of
politics in the modern world.
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