Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books

Hroch, Miroslav (2015). European Nations. London: Verso.

Smith, Anthony D. (2001): Nationalism. Theory, ideology, history. Oxford: Polity. Ch. 1–4.

To be found in an article compilation which can be bought at Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus

Anderson, Benedict (1991): Imagined communities. London: Verso, ch. 1, ch 3

Bakke, Elisabeth (2011): Czechoslovakism in Slovak history, i Mikulá? Teich, Du?an Ková? & Martin D. Brown (ed.), Slovakia in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Brubaker. Rogers (2004): Ethnicity Without Groups, Cambridge: Harvard Uiversity Press, ch. 1.

Calhoun, Craig (1997), Nationalism', Buckingham, Open University Press, ch. 5 'Universalism and parochialism'

Eriksen, Anne (2007): The private use of flags in Norway, in Thomas Hylland Eriksen & Richard Jenkings (eds.), Flag, nation and symbolism in Europe and America. London: Routledge.

Ernest Renan Qu'est-ce qu'une nation? [What is a nation?], in J. Hutchinson & A.D. Smith (eds.). Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford Readers.

Foster, Mira (2013) ‘Divided Identities: Listening to and Interpreting the Stories of Polish Immigrants in West Germany’, in: Spickard, P. (ed.) Multiple Identities. Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership. Bloomington: Indiana University Press., pp. 245-64.

Gellner, Ernest (1983): Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell, Ch. 1, 5

Grimnes, Ole Kristian (2007): Nationalism and Unionism in nineteenth-century Norwegian flags, in Thomas Hylland Eriksen & Richard Jenkings (eds.), Flag, nation and symbolism in Europe and America. London: Routledge.

Hearn, Jonathan (2006): ‘Primordialism’, in: Hearn, J. Rethinking Nationalism. A Critical Introduction, London/NY: Palgrave Macmillan H46

Hobsbawm, Eric J. (1992): Nations and nationalism since 1780. Programme, myth, reality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, kap. 2

Hobsbawm, Eric J. and Ranger, Terence (1992): The invention of tradition. New York: Cambridge University Press, kap. 1 'Introduction. Inventing traditions'.

Hutchinson, John (1994): Modern nationalism. London, Fontana, Ch. 2

Ignatieff, M. (1993) Blood and Belonging. Journeys into the New Nationalism, London: BBC Books , ch. 3

Joseph Stalin: The Nation

Kymlicka, Will (2003) Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship, ch. 10, 12, 15

Max Weber: The Nation

Roshwald, Aviel (2001): Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires. Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, New York: Routledge, ch. 2 and 3, pp. 8-28 and 34-46

Smith, Anthony D. (1998): Nationalism and modernism. A critical survey of recent theories of nations and nationalism. London & New York: Routledge, Ch. 8

S?rensen, ?ystein (1994): The development of a Norwegian National Identity during the Nineteenth Century, in ?. S?rensen (ed). Nordic Paths to National Identity in the Nineteenth Century. Oslo: NFR

Zubrzycki, Genevieve (2006) The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland, Chicago UCP, ch. 1

?sterud, ?yvind (1996). Norwegian Nationalism in a European context, Kults skriftserie no. 47. Oslo: NFR.

Downloadable articles, books and other texts

You can search the articles and e-books in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system. Contact the Reference Services at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library if you have problems finding the literature.

Bakke, Elisabeth (1999): Doomed to failure? PhD dissertation, Ch. 6-7

Betz, Hans-Georg & Carol Johnson (2004) Against the current-stemming the tide: the nostalgic ideology of the contemporary radical populist right, Journal of Political Ideologies 9(3): 311-327, 16 p

Cederman, Lars-Erik, Andreas Wimmer, and Brian Min. "Why do ethnic groups rebel? New data and analysis." World Politics 62.01 (2010): 87–119, 32 p

Denny, Elaine K. and Barbara F. Walter. 2014. “Ethnicity and civil war.” Journal of Peace Research 51(2):199–212. 13 p

Erdal, Marta Bivand (2014) 'This is my home' Pakistani and Polish Migrants’ Return Considerations as Articulations About ‘Home’, Comparative Migration Studies 2(3): 361–384.

Harff, Barbara (2003). “No Lessons Learned from the Holocaust? Assessing Risks of Genocide and Political Mass Murder since 1955,” American Political Science Review 97(1): 57–73. 16 p

Hylland Eriksen, Thomas (2004): Keeping the recipe: Norwegian folk costumes and cultural capital, Focaal, Volume 2004, Number 44, Winter 2004, pp. 20-34 (15 p)

Kaufman, Stuart J. 2006. "Symbolic politics or rational choice? Testing theories of extreme ethnic violence." International Security 30(4): 45–86. 41 p

Minkenberg, Michael (2013) "From Pariah to Policy-Maker? The Radical Right in Europe, West and East: Between Margin and Mainstream. Journal of Contemporary European Studies 21(1): 5-24. 18 p

Mudde, Cas (2010) "The Populist Radical Right: A Pathological Normalcy", West European Politics 33(6): 1167-1186. 19 p

Pieterse, Jan N. (1997), Deconstructing/Reconstructing Ethnicity. Nations and Nationalism, 3: 365–395. 30 p

Rydgren, Jens (2007) "The Sociology of Radical Right", Annual Review of Sociology 33(1):241 -262. 21 p

Semb, Anne Julie (2005): Sami self-determination in the making?, in Nations and Nationalism 11 (4), 2005: 539-549. 18 p

Sutherland, C. (2005), Nation-building through discourse theory. Nations and Nationalism, 11: 185–202. 18 p

Wodak, Ruth (2006): 'Discourse Analytic and Socio-linguistic Approaches to the Study of Nation(alism)’ in: Delanty, G. and K. Kumar Handbook of Nations and Nationalism, Lodnon: SAGE

?zkirimli, Umut (2003): 'The nation as an artichoke? A critique of ethnosymbolist interpretations of nationalism', Nations and Nationalism, 9: 339–355. 15 p

Total required reading: approx. 1012 p

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