Nationalism in a Transnational Age : : irrational fears and the strategic abuse of nationalist pride / / edited by Frank Jacob and Carsten Schapkow.

• TeilnehmendeR: Jacob, Frank,; Schapkow, Carsten, 1970-
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 230 pages) :; illustrations

Nationalism was declared to be dead too early. A postnational age was announced, and liberalism claimed to have been victorious by the end of the Cold War. At the same time postnational order was proclaimed in which transnational alliances like the European Union were supposed to become more important in international relations. But we witnessed the rise a strong nationalism during the early 21st century instead, and right wing parties are able to gain more and more votes in elections that are often characterized by nationalist agendas. This volume shows how nationalist dreams and fears alike determine politics in an age that was supposed to witness a rather peaceful coexistence by those who consider transnational ideas more valuable than national demands. It will deal with different case studies to show why and how nationalism made its way back to the common consciousness and which elements stimulated the re-establishment of the aggressive nation state. The volume will therefore look at the continuities of empire, actual and imagined, the role of "foreign-" and "otherness" for nationalist narratives, and try to explain how globalization stimulated the rise of 21st century nationalisms as well.

Table of Contents

1 Nationalism in a Transnational Age: An Introduction -- Section I: Old Wine in New Bottles: About the Continuities of Nationalism and Empire in the 21st Century -- 2 Turkish Nationalism: From Gallipoli to Contemporary Neo-Ottomanism -- 3 Old Concepts in Changing Societies? Continuities and Transformation of Nationalism in East Germany, 1871-2019 -- 4 The Phantomic Nature of Missionary Nationalism in a Former Empire: The Case of Russia -- 5 New Transnational Pan-Africanism and Its Nationalist Limitations -- Section II: The Fight For and the Creation of Identity: A Cultural Struggle Against the "Other" -- 6 Russia's Central Asia: Photographic Symbology of Nationhood -- 7 Georgia's Two Others: Nationalism and the Identity Struggle of a Post-Soviet Nation State -- 8 New Media and the Narratives of National Identity and Nationalism: A Pakistani Case Study -- Section III: Globalized Nationalisms and their National Frontiers -- 9 Eco-Nationalism in the Soviet Union in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s: The Ukrainian Case -- 10 Teaching History in Belarus: Between Globalization and Authoritarian Confinement, Between Europe and Russia -- List of Contributors -- Index.