Graham Smith (University of Cambridge), Vivien Law (University of Cambridge), Andrew Wilson (University of London)

Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands

The Politics of National Identities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The reforging of national identities of the fourteen borderland post-Soviet states has had a major effect in reshaping the political, cultural and social lives of national and ethnic minority groups. This book analyses these national identities and explores the consequences for the borderland states.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780521599689
• ISBN-10: 0521599687
• Artikelnr.: 21179262

Autorenporträt

Graham Smith is Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster and Founding Chair of the Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies (KNOCA). He is a leading authority on participatory and deliberative democracy, citizens' assemblies and climate governance and has been recognized as one of the top 100 most influential academics in government.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Post-colonialism and borderland identities; Part I. Rediscovering
National Histories: 2. National history and national identity in Ukraine
and Belarus; 3. National identity and myths of ethnogenesis in
Transcaucasia; 4. History and group identity in Central Asia; Part II.
Ethnopolitics and the Construction of Group Boundaries: 5. Nation
re-building and political discourses of identity politics in the Baltic
states; 6. Redefining ethnic and linguistic boundaries in Ukraine:
indigenes, settlers and Russophone Ukrainians; 7. The Central Asian states
as nationalising regimes; Part III. Language and Nation-Building: 8.
Language myths and the discourse of nation-building in Georgia; 9. Language
policy and ethnic relations in Uzbekistan.