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). 215 p

Smith, Anthony D. (2010). Nationalism. Theory, ideology, history. Oxford: Polity. Ch. 1–4. 82 p

Compendium

Anderson, Benedict (1991). Imagined communities. London: Verso, ch. 1, ch 3. 17 p

Brubaker. Rogers (2004). Ethnicity Without Groups, Cambridge: Harvard Uiversity Press, ch. 1. 20 p

Brubaker, Rogers (2015).Grounds for Difference. Ch. 3: Language, Religion and the Politics of Difference. Harvard University Press, pp. 85-101. 17 p

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. 13 p

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. 20 p

Gellner, Ernest (1983). Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell, Ch. 1, 5. 17 p

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. 11 p

Hobsbawm, Eric J. (1992). Nations and nationalism since 1780. Programme, myth, reality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, kap. 2. 34 p

Hobsbawm, Eric J. and Ranger, Terence (1992). The invention of tradition. New York: Cambridge University Press, kap. 1 'Introduction. Inventing traditions'. 14 p

Ignatieff, M. (1993) Blood and Belonging. Journeys into the New Nationalism, London: BBC Books , ch. 3. 39 p

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. 21 p

Kymlicka, Will (2003) Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship, ch. 10, 12, 15. 45 p

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. 32 p

Smith, Anthony D. (1998). Nationalism and modernism. A critical survey of recent theories of nations and nationalism. London & New York: Routledge, Ch. 8. 28 p

Stalin, Joseph: The Nation;

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. 19 p

Weber, Max: The Nation. 9 p

Zubrzycki, Genevieve (2006) The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland, Chicago UCP, ch. 1. 42 p

?sterud, ?yvind (1996). Norwegian Nationalism in a European context, Kults skriftserie no. 47. Oslo: NFR. 10 p

?zkirimli, Umut (2017). Theories of Nationalism. A critical introduction. London: Palgrave, Ch. 3 & 6. 76 p

Online articles

Agirdag, O., Phalet, K., & Van Houtte, M. (2016). European identity as a unifying category: National vs. European identification among native and immigrant pupils. European Union Politics, 17(2), 285–302. 17 p.

Bakke, Elisabeth (1999). Doomed to failure? PhD dissertation, Ch. 6-7. 36 p

Bakke, Elisabeth (2011). Czechoslovakism in Slovak history, i Mikulá? Teich, Du?an Ková? & Martin D. Brown (ed.), Slovakia in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 22 p

Brubaker, Rogers (2017). Why Populism? Theory and Society. Volume 46 (5), pp 357-385. 28 p.

Connor, W. (2004), The timelessness of nations. Nations and Nationalism, 10 (1-2): 35-47. 12 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. 24p

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

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

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. 15 p

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. 20 p

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

Thorleifsson, Cathrine (2017). Disposable Strangers: far right securitisation of forced migration in Hungary. Social Anthropology. Volume 25 (3): 318-334. 16 p.

Troch, Pieter (2013). Interactive nationhood.  The relation between Croatian and Yugoslav national identity in the interwar period. Nations and Nationalism, 19 (4): 781-798. 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. 18 p

?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: 1107 p

 

Suggested Reading:

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

Connor, Walker [1990]. When is a nation? Excerpt in J. Hutchinson & A.D. Smith (eds., 1994). Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford Readers. pp 154-159. 6 p.

Hutchinson, John (1994). Modern nationalism. London, Fontana.

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

The Nation: real or imagined? Anthony Smith's opening statement: Nations and their past. Ernest Gellner's reply: 'Do nations have navels'? Nations and Nationalism 2(3): 358–70.

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