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.
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.
