became epidemiological nationalism. In this essay, I trace epidemiology's conscription in nationalist inscription. I invoke ‘nationalism’ without the presumption that the term always already entails a regressive politics. (Plaid Cymru – the dominant
Viral Intimacy and Catholic Nationalist Political Economy
Covid-19 and the Community Response in Rural Ireland
David Whyte
COVID-19 and the response of the community development sector in the Republic of Ireland have uncovered the legacy of Catholic nationalism in Irish capitalism. On the 27 March 2020, the full extent of the COVID-19 lockdown measures was announced
Civil Societies and Uncivil Times
The Rubber Band Ball of Transnational Tensions
Brian Callan
This article introduces a special issue of Contention Journal addressing various contemporary mobilizations of civil society in response to the war in Syria and the migration of refugees into Europe. With contributions from Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, Canada, the Czech Republic and Germany, the cases represent a breadth of multidisciplinary approaches and a variety of stylistic standpoints, from statistical media analysis to troubled personal reflections of engaged activist academics. The subject matter ranges from political mobilization against authoritarianism and austerity, transnational philanthropy, the emergence of local grassroots voluntary aid to right-wing populist nationalism. Though diverse, a coherent narrative is seen to converge around the refugee crisis as it unfolds in Europe; one of radical polarization within civil societies and starkly conflicting imaginaries of social futures that claim to preclude the legitimacy of other possibilities. At the same time alliances are being generated beyond borders in an attempt to bolster ideological capacity, authority, and force. This is not a clash of civilizations but the rubber band ball of transnational tension, a strained, chaotic and overlapping global contestation. At stake is the understanding of what a civil society should be.
Sight and Touch between East and West
Ethics, Ethnography and Social Theory
Liene Ozolina
2014 ). The East European version of nationalism – labelled ‘ethnonationalism’ – is feared as uncivilised and dangerous in comparison to the Western ‘civic nationalism’, even as the former is now becoming mainstream in the old democracies across the
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2020
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- Review Article
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- 102–107 (6 total)
Liberation Autochthony
Namibian Veteran Politics and African Citizenship Claims
Lalli Metsola
citizenship. I will argue Namibian ex-combatant and veteran politics exemplify a particular kind of exclusionary nationalism that is comparable with autochthonous and ethnonationalist politics of citizenship that tend to operate through “cultural” designators
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 186–201 (16 total)
The East Side Story of Gender and Feminism
The Hungarian and Czech Cases
Gabriela Dudeková Kováčová
of interwar female activism and its ideas. She opens the question of why today there is still a “long-lasting connection between extreme nationalism, perceived national interest, and illiberal gender values” (14). In her opinion, “this connection
Ana Miškovska Kajevska
thorough examination of the terms “antinationalist” and “nationalist” is visible throughout the whole book. I warned “against the creation of simplified dichotomies” 7 and I reminded “scholars to always ask what one's alleged nationalism or antinationalism
Research Methodology in Kurdish Studies
Interactions between Fieldwork, Epistemology and Theory
Mehmet Orhan
religion, geography and power relations with the Ottoman Empire determined how they reacted to nationalism and modernist trends. While the Kurds sparked both the political and scientific interest of scholars, diplomats and travelers, the collective national
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 1–19 (19 total)
Andrew Dawson
personal nationalisms ( Cohen 1996 ), the relationship between national identities within oneself. In the manner of so much lockdown anthropology, this is an auto-ethnography ( Reed-Danahay 1997 ), which considers my experience of being an immigrant from
Transculturality in higher education
Supporting students’ experiences through praxis
Heidi A. Smith
pedagogical praxis emerges: critical transcultural pedagogical praxis . Before exploring this model further, it is important to first understand transculturality in relation to culture, globalisation and neo-nationalism, and to interculturality and
In Learning and Teaching
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- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 41–60 (20 total)