Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books and compendiums can be bought in Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus. You will need a valid semester card to buy compendiums.

Books

Hroch, Miroslav (2015). European Nations. London: Verso (Chapters 3 and 5 are not part of the curriculum)

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

Compendium

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.

Brubaker, Rogers (2006). Chapter 3: From Kolozsvár to Cluj‐Napoca in: Brubaker, R. et al. Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town. Princeton Uni press.

Drulak, Petr (2012). Czech geopolitics: Struggling for survival, in Guzzini, S. (ed.) The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? Social Mechanisms and Foreign Policy Identity Crises. Cambridge Uni Press, pp. 77-100

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

Goff, Patricia and Kevin Dunn (2004). Introduction: In Defense of Identity, in Goff (ed.) Identity and Global Politics. Empirical and Theoretical Elaborations. Palgrave, pp. 1-8.

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

Jackson,Patrick T. (2004).  Whose Identity?: Rhetorical Commonplaces in “American” Wartime Foreign Policy, in Goff (ed.)  Identity and Global Politics. Empirical and Theoretical Elaborations. Palgrave, pp. 169-189

Joseph Stalin: The Nation

Judson, Pieter M. (2014).  “Do Multiple Languages Mean a Multicultural Society? Nationalist ‘Frontiers’ in Rural Austria, 1880-1918” in Gary B. Cohen & Johannes Feichtinger, eds. Understanding Multiculturalism and the Central European Experience. Oxford: Berghahn, 61-82.

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.

Online articles

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

Brubaker, Rogers and Frederick Cooper (2000). Beyond "Identity'', Theory and Society, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Feb., 2000). pp. 1-47

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.

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)

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

Porter, Brian A. (1992). Who Is a Pole and Where Is Poland? Territory and Nation in the Rhetoric of Polish National Democracy before 1905. Slavic Review 51, no. 4 (Winter 1992): 639–653.

Pytlas, Bartek (2013). Radical-right narratives in Slovakia and Hungary: historical legacies, mythic overlaying and contemporary politics. Patterns of Prejudice, 01 May 2013, Vol.47(2). p.162-183

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

Winters, Stanley B. (1969). The Young Czech Party (1874-1914). An Appraisal. Slavic Review, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Sep., 1969). pp. 426-444.

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

Online articles:

Total required reading: 1127 p

 

Suggested Reading:

Brubaker, Rogers (2015), Language, Religion and the Politics of Difference, in Brubaker, Grounds for Difference, Harvard Uni Press , pp. 85-101

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