Nationalism:
                                                                           Key Concepts and Theories





                                                                                       Veronika Bajt

                              1. Group identity and the need to belong

n    `us' versus `them' distinction

n    social categorisation of others & self-categorisation

n    ethnocentrism

                                           2. Terminology

n    `ethny' (ethnic group)

n    `race'

n    nation

n    narod / nacija -- cultural / political nation

                                     3. Context and definition

n    Modernity

n    Historic origin of nationalism

n    National elites

n    What is nationalism?

                                    4. Ethnicity and nationalism

n    Nation: ancient or modern?

n    What is the nation?

n    When is the nation?

                       5. Classical and contemporary theories of nationalism

n    Are nations real or constructed?

n    Primordialists

n    Perennialists

n    Ethnicists

n    Modernists

n    Constructionists...

                                 6. Civic and ethnic nationalisms?

n    `Political' and `cultural' nationalisms

n    `West' and `East' nationalisms



                                         7. Nation-building

n    The 18^th century nationalisms

n    The 19^th century nationalisms

n    The 20^th century nationalisms -- `stateless' nations

                                        8. Nation and state

n    `nation-state'

n    nation as ethnic majority

n    nationalism and state-building

n    citizenship

n    minorities

                                     9. History and nationalism

n    Inventing the past

n    Myths, symbols, national memories

n    Myths of shared origin

n    National rituals

n    National identity

                                 10. Nationalism and post-communism

n    The fall of communism

n    Renegotiation of social values

n    Construction of new identities

n    Break-up of multinational states

n    Establishment of new states

n    `Nationalising' nationalism

n    Contemporary intolerance

                                 11. Nationalism and globalisation

n    The end of `nation-state'?

n    Multiculturalism

n    `Jihad versus McWorld'

                                   12. The future of nationalism

n    EU: Europe without `Europeans'?

n    Proposals for moving beyond the `nation-state'

n    The future of national identities

n    Citizens of the world?

n    Preservation of minority languages

                                     Next week's reading list:

n     From the "Nationalism" Oxford reader (Hutchinson & Smith, 1994): Part I `The Question of
Definition': read the Introduction and among Renan, Stalin,Weber, Deutsch, Geertz, Giddens, Connor
select at least three!

n     Read the article by Anna Triandafyllidou `National identity and the other' which I will put up
on the info system for you.