Dawa Norbu

Culture and the Politics of Third World Nationalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Nationalism in specific political systems combined with a theoretical framework that draws out its universal significance. Ten case studies from South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Europe focus on local cultural factors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780415080033
• ISBN-10: 0415080037
• Artikelnr.: 21713339

Autorenporträt

Dawa Norbu is Associate Professor in the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was educated in Tibet, India and the United States and received his doctorate in political sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Red Star over Tibet (1987) and has contributed to a number of scholarly journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: field experience and social theory 1 Introduction: western
concepts and non-western realities 2 Towards a new definition of Third
World nationalism 3 The stages of proto-nationalism: tribalism, ethnicity
and patriotism 4 Social structure of the nation: the ordering principle of
national attributes 5 The evolution of religious sects and the emergence of
national identities 6 Modern nationalism and egalitarian ideology 7 The
politics of nationalism: mass mobilization, linguistic transformation and
nationalist movements 8 The mechanism of mass mobilization: symbol
manipulation and identity assertion 9 Nationalism as social power:
restructuring egalitarian systems 10 The monoethnic state and polyethnic
social system: the rise of ethnic nationalism 11 Conclusion: cultural
differentiation and political rationalization 12 Epilogue: the rise of
Slavic nationalisms and the collapse of transnational ideocracy