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Why? This question drives scientific inquiry, not least in the
social sciences: why war, revolution, racism and inequality? Asking
and debating about 'why?', however, is not the prerogative of
scholars; social actors, endowed with thought, reflection and
speech, do it too. While we all dance to the beat of genes,
emotions, identities and habituated norms, we occasionally stop to
ask 'why?' The social sciences have been long preoccupied with the
ostensibly objective 'why' while sidelining the social,
intersubjective 'why?' This book focuses on the latter, analysing
the social actors' search for justification in their public,
political sphere. Justifications, broadly understood, are answers
to why-questions given and debated by social actors. The chapters
focus on public justifications. While the contributors do not
submit that private encounters addressing why-questions do not
matter, they choose to put public encounters addressing these
questions under scrutiny. Given the ongoing telecommunications
revolution, and new political practices associated with it, these
public encounters become increasingly pertinent in our evolving
political orders. This book originally published as a special issue
in Contemporary Politics.
In a world in which change is constant, the principle of
self-determination is important. Through (collective) acts of
self-determination, nations exercise the right to govern
themselves. At present the nation-state system with which we are
familiar faces several challenges. In Western Europe, sub-state
nationalism is on the rise. In the Middle East and North Africa,
the state system bequeathed by former colonial powers faces
increasing threats from pan-Islamist movements. Overall, the
established order faces unprecedented uncertainties. The scholars
who have contributed to this volume assess the merits, limitations
and trajectories of self-determination in the twenty-first century,
pointing to the paradoxes and anomalies that are encompassed by
what at first sight is a simple and seductive concept. From the
perspective of the twenty-first century and informed by a wealth of
experience each of the contributors to this volume offers some
valuable and intriguing observations on the future of
self-determination and the movements its call engenders. This book
was published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics.
In a world in which change is constant, the principle of
self-determination is important. Through (collective) acts of
self-determination, nations exercise the right to govern
themselves. At present the nation-state system with which we are
familiar faces several challenges. In Western Europe, sub-state
nationalism is on the rise. In the Middle East and North Africa,
the state system bequeathed by former colonial powers faces
increasing threats from pan-Islamist movements. Overall, the
established order faces unprecedented uncertainties. The scholars
who have contributed to this volume assess the merits, limitations
and trajectories of self-determination in the twenty-first century,
pointing to the paradoxes and anomalies that are encompassed by
what at first sight is a simple and seductive concept. From the
perspective of the twenty-first century and informed by a wealth of
experience each of the contributors to this volume offers some
valuable and intriguing observations on the future of
self-determination and the movements its call engenders. This book
was published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics.
Why? This question drives scientific inquiry, not least in the
social sciences: why war, revolution, racism and inequality? Asking
and debating about 'why?', however, is not the prerogative of
scholars; social actors, endowed with thought, reflection and
speech, do it too. While we all dance to the beat of genes,
emotions, identities and habituated norms, we occasionally stop to
ask 'why?' The social sciences have been long preoccupied with the
ostensibly objective 'why' while sidelining the social,
intersubjective 'why?' This book focuses on the latter, analysing
the social actors' search for justification in their public,
political sphere. Justifications, broadly understood, are answers
to why-questions given and debated by social actors. The chapters
focus on public justifications. While the contributors do not
submit that private encounters addressing why-questions do not
matter, they choose to put public encounters addressing these
questions under scrutiny. Given the ongoing telecommunications
revolution, and new political practices associated with it, these
public encounters become increasingly pertinent in our evolving
political orders. This book originally published as a special issue
in Contemporary Politics.
This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the
history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics,
human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as important
a role as, if not more than, raw earth. Discussed are case studies
by seven artists and two artist teams-Jennifer Allora and Guillermo
Calzadilla, Francis Alys, Yael Bartana, Joana Hadjithomas and
Khalil Joreige, Emre Huner, Andrea Geyer, Matthew Day Jackson, Lucy
Raven, and Santiago Sierra. While some of these artists explore
historical and symbolic configurations of space, others parse the
social, legal, and economic conditions of specific land-sites,
including the Navajo Nation, the island of Vieques, the border town
of Juarez, and the cities of Tongling, Jerusalem, and Beirut. Not
confined to the displacement of matter, these artists employ a wide
range of media, such as performance, animation, assemblage, and
photography. Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum
Exhibition Schedule: Princeton University Art Museum 10/23/10 -
02/20/11
Standing at the edge of life's abyss, we seek meaningful order. We
commonly find this 'symbolic immortality' in religion,
civilization, state and nation. What happens, however, when the
nation itself appears mortal? The Mortality and Morality of Nations
seeks to answer this question, theoretically and empirically. It
argues that mortality makes morality, and right makes might; the
nation's sense of a looming abyss informs its quest for a higher
moral ground, which, if reached, can bolster its vitality. The book
investigates nationalism's promise of moral immortality and its
limitations via three case studies: French Canadians, Israeli Jews,
and Afrikaners. All three have been insecure about the validity of
their identity or the viability of their polity, or both. They have
sought partial redress in existential self-legitimation: by the
nation, of the nation and for the nation's very existence.
Standing at the edge of life's abyss, we seek meaningful order. We
commonly find this 'symbolic immortality' in religion,
civilization, state and nation. What happens, however, when the
nation itself appears mortal? The Mortality and Morality of Nations
seeks to answer this question, theoretically and empirically. It
argues that mortality makes morality, and right makes might; the
nation's sense of a looming abyss informs its quest for a higher
moral ground, which, if reached, can bolster its vitality. The book
investigates nationalism's promise of moral immortality and its
limitations via three case studies: French Canadians, Israeli Jews,
and Afrikaners. All three have been insecure about the validity of
their identity or the viability of their polity, or both. They have
sought partial redress in existential self-legitimation: by the
nation, of the nation and for the nation's very existence.
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