The research question given is “How is nationalism gendered?” but the text itself can specify more in its focus while keeping the RQ. Should make use of both sources in file and external sources. The sources in file, especially those under “Week 6 – Gendering the Nation” should be centrally used.

SOC 40620 Nationalism and Social Change

Associate Prof Iarfhlaith Watson

Room D416 Newman Building

iarfhlaith.watson@ucd.ie

 

Prof Siniša Malešević

Room D418 Newman Building

sinisa.malesevic@ucd.ie

Semester 2, 2020

Room 422, Tuesdays 1-3pm

 

 

Module Description:

 

This module aims to explore the key theoretical approaches in the study of nations and nationalisms. The focus is on understanding the sociological foundations of the large scale historical changes that have shaped the world over the last three hundred years. The module provides a thematic survey of these long-term historical developments with a spotlight on the relationships between nationalism and social change. More specifically the module addresses the cultural, political, economic, and social aspects of nation-formation in Europe and other continents.  The module aims to examine major research traditions in the study of nations and nationalisms, and to relate these approaches to other key themes in sociology.

 

Learning Outcomes:

 

At the end of the module the students are expected to be able to demonstrate a detailed understanding of the main sociological approaches in the study of nations and nationalisms, evaluate the role modernity has played in the formation of nations and nationalisms and appraise the general relationships between  nationalism and social change in the broader historical and geographical contexts.

 

Assessment:

 

Methods of assessment and examination: end of semester essay /3000 words/ (80%) and weekly reading summaries and active participation (20%).

 

 

Week 1: Introduction                                                                                                                    SM

 

Essential Readings:

 

1. W. Connor (1978) “A Nation is a Nation, is a State, is an Ethnic Group, is a ….” Reprinted as ‘Terminological Chaos’, in his (1994) Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 89-117.

 

Additional Readings:

 

10. Özkirimli (2017) ‘Introduction’ in his Theories of Nationalism. 3nd revised edition. New York: Palgrave. pp 1-10.
11. Jenkins (2008) ‘Identity Matters’ in his Social Identity 3rd edition. London: Routledge, pp. 1-15.
12. Brubaker (2004) Ethnicity without Groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Chapters 2 and 3).
13. Malešević (2019) ‘Introduction: The Tenacity of Nationalisms’ in his Grounded Nationalisms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-16.
14. Malešević (2006) ‘Ethnic and National Identity: The Conceptual Critique’ in his Identity as Ideology: Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
15. Malešević (2013) ‘The Salience of Nationalism’ in his Nation-States and Nationalisms: Organisation, Ideology and Solidarity. Cambridge: Polity.

 

 

Weeks 2-3: How old are nations                                                                                                   SM

 

Week 2 Ernest Gellner

 

Essential Readings:

 

1. E. Gellner (1983) ‘The Transition to an Age of Nationalism’ in his Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 39-52.
2. E. Gellner (1997) ‘Do Nations have Navels?’ in his Nationalism. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, pp. 90 –101.

 

Additional Readings:

 

114. Ozkirimli (2017) ‘Ernest Gellner and High Cultures’ in his Theories of Nationalism. 2nd revised edition. New York: Palgrave. pp. 107-114.
115. Malešević (2006) ‘Coercion, Nationalism and Popular Culture’ in his Identity as Ideology: Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism. New York: Palgrave. pp. 136-153,
116. Gellner (1964) ‘Nationalism’ in his Thought and Change. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, pp. 158-69.
117. Gellner (1982) ‘Nationalism and the Two Forms of Cohesion in Complex Societies’ Proceedings of the British Academy. (68):165-87.
118. Smith (1998) ‘The Culture of Industrialism’ in his Nationalism and Modernism. London: Routledge, pp.27-46.
119. A. Hall (ed). (1998) The State of the Nation-State: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
120. Malešević & M. Haugaard (eds) (2007) Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Chapters 1, 5, 6 and 7).

 

 

 

 

Week 3 Anthony D. Smith

 

Essential readings:

 

1. A. Smith (2009). ‘Basic Themes of Ethno-Symbolism’ in his Ethno-Symbolism and Nationalism: Cultural Approach. London: Routledge.
2. A. Smith (1986) ‘Foundations of Ethnic Community’ in his The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Oxford: Blackwell.

 

Additional Readings:

 

174. Ozkirimli (2017) ‘Anthony D. Smith and the Ethnic Origins of Nations’ in his Theories of Nationalism. 2nd revised edition. New York: Palgrave. pp. 158-174.
175. Malešević (2004) ‘Divine Ethnies and Sacred Nations: Anthony D. Smith and the Neo-Durkhemian Theory of Nationalism’ Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 10 (4): 561-593 or chapter 5 in his Identity as Ideology: Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism. New York: Palgrave. pp.  109-135.
176. Smith (1998) ‘Ethno-Symbolism’ in his Nationalism and Modernism. London: Routledge.pp.70-198.
177. Smith (1986) ‘Legends and Landscapes’ in his The Ethnic Origins of Nations, pp.174-208.
178. Smith (1991) ’The Rise of Nations’ in his National Identity. London: Penguin, pp. 43-70.
179. Smith (1999) ‘Chosen Peoples: Why Ethnic Groups Survive’ in his Myths and Memories of the Nation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
180. Smith (1999) ‘National Identity and Myths of Ethnic Descent’ in his Myths and Memories of the Nation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
181. Smith (2003) ‘The Nation as a Sacred Communion’ in his Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 19-43

 

 

Weeks 4: Imagining the (Post-Colonial) Nation                                                                                                     SM

 

 

Essential Readings:

 

1. B. Anderson (1991) ‘The Origins of National Consciousness’ in his Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, pp. 37-46.
2. P. Chatterjee (1991) Whose Imagined Community? Millennium 20 (3): 521-525.

 

 

Additional Readings:

 

1. Anderson (2005) Under Three Flags. London: Verso.
2. Anderson (1996) `Introduction’, in Gopal Balakrishnan (ed.) Mapping the Nation London: Verso, pp. 1-16.
3. Anderson (1998) The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia and the World. London: Verso.
4. P. Chatterjee (1986). Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World. London: Zed Books.
5. Chatterjee (1993). The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton University Press.
6. Malešević (2017) The foundations of statehood: Empires and nation-states in the longue durée. Thesis Eleven, 139 (1): 145–161.

 

 

Week 5: Fighting for the nation                                                                                           SM

 

 

Essential Readings:

 

1. M. Mann (2005) The Argument. In his: The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-33.
2. S. Malešević (2013) Is Nationalism Intrinsically Violent? Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. 19(1): 12-37.

 

Additional Readings:

 

1. Tilly (1990) Coercion, Capital and European States. Oxford: Blackwell.
2. Tilly (2003) The Politics of Collective Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Mann (1995) ‘A Political Theory of Nationalism and its Excesses in S. Periwal (ed.) Notions of Nationalism. Budapest: CEU press, 44-64.
4. Mann (1992) ‘The Emergence of Modern European Nationalism’ in J. A. Hall and I. Jarvie (eds.) Transition to Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 137-165.
5. Mann (1993) The Sources of Social Power Vol. II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp 730-739.
6. Mann (2013) The Sources of Social Power Vols III and IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Wimmer (2012) Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation and Ethnic Exclusion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
8. A. Hall and S. Malešević (eds) (2013) Nationalism and War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
9. Laitin (2007) Nations, States and Violence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
10. Malešević (2010) The Sociology of War and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

(chapters 6 and 7).

161. Malešević (2011) Nationalism, War and Social Cohesion. Ethnic and Racial Studies 34(1): 142-161.

 

 

Week 6: Gendering the Nation                                                                                              SM

 

Essential Readings:

 

24. Yuval-Davis (1996) Women and the Biological Reproduction of ‘The Nation’. Women’s Studies International Forum, 19(1): 17-24.
25. Lauenstein at al. (2015) ‘Oh Motherland I Pledge to Thee …’: A Study into Nationalism, Gender and the Representation of an Imagined Family within National Anthems. Nations and Nationalism, 21 (2): 309–329.

 

 

Additional Readings:

 

1. Evangelista (2011) Gender, Nationalism and War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Mayer (ed) (2000). Gender Ironies of Nationalism. London: Routledge.
3. Bannerji (2000). The Dark Side of the Nation. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
4. Landes (2001) Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation and Revolution in 18th Century France. Ithaca; Cornell University Press.
5. Yuval-Davis (1997) Gender and Nation. London: Sage.

 

Weeks 7-8: Forging the nation (Sociohistorical Context)                                                                   IW

Week 7

 

Essential Readings:

 

1. L. Greenfeld (1992) Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ‘Outline of the Argument’ pp 14-17 and the following extracts from the second part of chapter 2 ‘II. The Social Bases of the Nationalization of French Identity and the Character of the Nascent National Consciousness’: ‘Turns of the Social Wheel: the Plight of the French Aristocracy’ pp 133-8 (i.e. not the full section), ‘The Birth of the French Nation’ pp 154-8, ‘The Death of a King’, ‘Nation, the Supreme Being’ and ‘The Noble Nation and the Exclusion of Nobility ’pp 165-72, ‘Competition with England and Ressentiment’ pp 177-80, and ‘A Note on Non-Elite Nationalism’ pp 184-88.
2. E. Hobsbawm (1996) [1962] ‘Nationalism’ in his The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. New York: Vintage Books, pp. 132-45.

 

Week 8

 

Essential Readings:

 

1. J. Breuilly (1993) ‘Nationalism and Class’ in his Nationalism and the State. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 25-53.
2. T. Nairn (1977) ‘The Modern Janus’ in his The break-up of Britain: crisis and neo-nationalism. London: NLB, pp. 329-63.

 

Additional Readings:

 

33. Hechter (2002) ‘The demand for sovereignty and the emergence of nationalism’ in his Containing Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 113-33.
34. Hroch (1985) Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
35. Gellner (1996) ‘The Coming of Nationalism and Its Interpretation: the Myths of Nation and Class’ in G. Balakrishnan (ed.) Mapping the Nation. London: Verso, pp. 98-145.
36. Weil (2008) How to be French: Nationality in the Making since 1798, London: Duke University Press.

 

Week 9: Inventing the nation                                                                                                       IW

 

Essential Readings:

 

1. E. Hobsbawm (1983) ‘Introduction: Inventing Traditions’ in E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger (eds) The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-14. [Also speed-read Ch. 2 on Scotland by Trevor-Roper].
2. C. Taylor (1998) ‘Nationalism and Modernity’ in J. A. Hall (ed.) The State of the Nation-State: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 191-218.

 

Additional Readings:

 

1. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger (1983) The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Smith (1991) National Identity. Reno: University of Nevada Press.
3. Breuilly, John (2005) ‘Changes in the political uses of the nation: continuity or discontinuity?’ in L. Scales and O. Zimmer (eds) Power and the Nation in European History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 67-102.
4. Bell (2001) The Cult of the nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
5. Gellner (1997) Nationalism. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson.

 

Week 10: The People                                                                                                                          IW

 

Essential Readings:

                                                                                                           

1. Thompson (2001) ‘Nations, National Identities and Human Agency: Putting People Back into Nations’, The Sociological Review 49: 18-32.
2. Weber (1976) ‘France one and indivisible’ in his Peasants into Frenchmen: the modernization of rural France, 1870-1914. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 95-114.

 

Additional Readings:

 

127. Billig (1995) ‘Flagging the Homeland Daily’ in his Banal Nationalism. London: Sage, pp. 93-127.
128. H. Eriksen (2010) Ethnicity and Nationalism. London: Pluto press.

 

 

Week 11: The Intellectuals                                                                                                         IW   

 

Essential Readings:

 

1. Guibernau (2000) ‘Nationalism and intellectuals in nations without states: the Catalan case,’ Political Studies 48: 989-1005.
2. Leerssen (2011) ‘Viral nationalism: romantic intellectuals on the move in nineteenth-century Europe,’ Nations and Nationalism 17: 257-271.

 

Additional Readings:

 

519. Hutchinson (2001) ‘Archaeology and the Irish rediscovery of the Celtic past,’ Nations and Nationalism 7: 505-519.
520. Kornprobst (2005) ‘Episteme, nation-builders and national identity: the re-construction of Irishness,’ Nations and Nationalism 11: 403-421.
521. Hroch (1998) ‘Real and constructed: the nature of the nation’ in J. A. Hall (ed.) The State of the Nation-State: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 91-106.

 

 

 

Week 12: The Future of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism                                                           IW

 

Essential Readings:

 

1. D. McCrone (1998) Nationalism and its Futures in his The Sociology of Nationalism. London: Routledge.

 

2. C. Calhoun (2008) Cosmopolitanisam and Nationalism. Nations and Nationalism 14: 427–448.

Additional Readings:

1. Conversi, (2000) ‘Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism’ in Athena Leoussi (eds) Encyclopaedia of Nationalism. Oxford: Transaction Books.