Culture and the politics of Third World nationalism / Dawa Norbu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawa Norbu, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Developing countries.

Nationalism.

Political culture--Developing countries.

Political culture.

Developing countries--Politics and government.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface: field experience and social theory; Introduction: western concepts and non-western realities; A critique of the Eurocentric theory of nationalism; Methodology for voluntaristic theory; Some correlates of the Third World concept; Towards a new definition of Third World nationalism; A sociological definition of nationalism; The stages of proto-nationalism: tribalism, ethnicity and patriotism; Political evolution and concomitant types of social consciousness; Patriotism and nationalism differentiated

Political feudalism and state formation in the Third WorldSocial structure of the nation: the ordering principle of national attributes; Race and language as means of cultural differentiation; Society and nation; The pattern of nation formation in the Third World; The evolution of religious sects and the emergence of national identities; National identity in the context of multiple identities; The domestication of world religions and the origins of national identities; The sacralization of race and territory: clues to emotionalism in nationalism; Modern nationalism and egalitarian ideology

Traditional and modern nationalisms differentiatedIntellectual mobilization and the diffusion of political consciousness in society; Imperialism and the objectification of social self-hood; The politics of nationalism: mass mobilization, linguistic transformation and nationalist movements; Social carriers of nationalist ideas; Linguistic transformation and social communication; The state and national economy; Nationalist and social movements differentiated; The mechanism of mass mobilization: symbol manipulation and identity assertion; Brahminic symbols and Hindu nationalism

'The true Muslim' myth and Jihad in Arab nationalismUncertain counterracialism in African nationalism; Territoriality and power in Han nationalism; Peasant culture and mass nationalism; Nationalism as social power: restructuring egalitarian systems; Fascist tendency in the structure of nationalism: race; Nationalism's normative legacy: freedom and equality; State nationalism and regional organization; The monoethnic state and polyethnic social system: the rise of ethnic nationalism; Ethnic identity and the monoethnic state; National integration and the rise of ethnic nationalism

The 'modernization' of ethnicitySocial prerequisites of ethnic nationalism; Conclusion: cultural differentiation and political rationalization; The paradigm and prediction; Epilogue: the rise of Slavic nationalisms and the collapse of transnational ideocracy; The Nature of Slavic nationalism; Tradition in the family; Russofication and non-Russian identities; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-247) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-89547-X

1-134-89548-8

1-280-07068-4

0-585-44735-7

9780203410356

OCLC:

299511653