Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe

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ID19945946
AuthorsBrian Michael Jenkins (University of Portsmouth), Spyros Sofo (0000-0002-6943-083X, University of Portsmouth)
EditorsBrian Jenkins (0000-0002-3264-9053), Spyros A Sofos
Year2003
Publication date2003-09-02
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNation and Identity in Contemporary Europe (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203208915
OpenAlexW1990783635
Open LibraryOL33737986M
ISBN9780203208915
LanguageEN
Citations received35
References cited3

The resilience of nationalism in contemporary Europe may seem paradoxical at a time when the nation state is widely seen as being 'in decline'. The contributors of this book see the resurgence of nationalism as symptomatic of the quest for identity and meaning in the complex modern world. Challenged from above by the supranational imperatives of globalism and from below by the complex pluralism of modern societies, the nation state, in the absence of alternatives to market consumerism, remains a focus for social identity. Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe takes a fully interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the 'national question'. Individual chapters consider the specifics of national identity in France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Iberia, Russia, the former Yugoslavla and Poland, while looking also at external forces such as economic globalisation, European supranationalism, and the end of the Cold War. Setting current issues and conflicts in their broad historical context, the book reaffirms that 'nations' are not 'natural' phenomena but 'constructed' forms of social identity whose future will be determined in the social arena

Aesthetics · Consumerism · Development economics · Globalism · Globalization · Nation state · National identity · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Politics and Security · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · 1989 · Ethnicité · Ethnicity · Europe · Identité collective · Identité nationale · Nation · Nationale identiteit · Nationalisme · Political Ideologies · Politics and government · Relations interethniques

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