As a starting point for this blog, and for Thursday’s discussion, please watch the following YouTube video comparing a US military ad with that of the Nordic Battlegroup. Question: What does military say about national identity? – US vs. EU United States As the video above shows, a military can evoke strong nationalist sentiment or, [...]
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Group 1 – The Military and Nationalism
Posted in Comment, MSc in Nationalism Studies on February 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Inside, outside; core, periphery; ‘proper’ and ‘accented’ speech
Posted in Comment on January 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This post is expanding a bit on my mention of a language being ‘a dialect with an army and a navy.’ The relevant point I’d like to make about English nationalism is that a characteristic of a dominant group which exerts its influence upon surrounding groups becomes seen as general to all of them, and [...]
Smith Group
Posted in Comment, MSc in Nationalism Studies on October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Anthony D. Smith In Myths and Memories of the Nation, Smith discusses the “myth of ethnic election,” referring to the widespread belief that one’s ethnic community is a “chosen” solidarity. These groups need not be politically autonomous to survive. Rather than surviving in a political sense they can survive solely by the continued beliefs in [...]
Scotland and Football – A Study in Nationalism
Posted in Comment, MSc in Nationalism Studies on October 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Coincidentally, my interest in nationalism, sparked a few years ago, came at a time when I also began watching a lot of soccer (from here on out referred to as football, because yes, I suppose that makes more sense….). Watching football can be a nice relaxing stress reliever, unless you’re currently a Liverpool supporter like [...]
Some thoughts from Israel…
Posted in Comment on June 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been traveling Israel for a week now, but already its struggles have been impressed upon me.
Muslim identity in Scotland
Posted in Comment, Nationalism in the News on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
An article in yesterday’s Economist acknowledges the SNPs success in gaining support from Muslims in Scotland, and the general compatibility of Muslim and Scottish (as opposed to English) identities: http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13611699 In particular it focuses on the SNP’s selection of Osama Saeed to challenge Labour MP Mohammad Sarwar’s Glasgow Central seat. Picking up on the theme [...]
Post-Colonial Nationalism and Transnationalism
Posted in Comment on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The most recent issue of Contributions to Indian Sociology (2008 but not long out) has two articles of interest. One is a review essay by Ghosh which looks back to the partition of India into India and Pakistan (later Bangladesh too). It addresses the question of the extent to which post-colonial nationalisms were derivative but [...]
Frank Ferudi on the 99%
Posted in Comment, MSc in Nationalism Studies, Nationalism in the News on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Re the previous post on the 99% as an ‘imagined community’, see Frank Ferudi’s skeptical comments in Spiked Online, at: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/printable/11309/
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