Bangladeshi state and nationalism, which rests on the ideal image of a homogeneous national society wherein others are considered to constitute a “threat” Since Bangladesh gained independence in 1971, major efforts have been made by those holding power over
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The Many Faces of the State
Living in Peace and Conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
Nasir Uddin and Eva Gerharz
The Social Life of Fighting Words
The Case of Political Correctness
Ronald S. Stade
between Maoism and black nationalism in the United States, connections between the two had been established much earlier. W. E. B. Du Bois met with Mao Zedong as far back as 1959, and in 1965 Robert F. Williams (1962) , a highly influential (but nowadays
Staying out of Place
The Being and Becoming of Burundian Refugees in the Camp and the City
Simon Turner
). Arguing against what it perceives as “methodological nationalism” ( Glick-Schiller and Wimmer 2002 ), transnational “theory” claims that we must not assume the nation as the ordering principle of societies just as we must question the taken
Moral Thresholds of Outrage
The March for Hrant Dink and New Ways of Mobilization in Turkey
Lorenzo D’Orsi
of Modernity and National Identity in Turkish Radio Broadcasting . London : I. B. Tauris . 10.5040/9780755610174 Akçam , Taner . 2004 . From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide . London : Zed Books . Akçam , Taner
The Many Layers of Moral Outrage
Kurdish Activists and Diaspora Politics
Nerina Weiss
(2001) , national symbols give concrete meaning and visibility to the abstractions of nationalism and distinguish one collective from another by virtue of who shares the “code” of their meaning. In the Kurdish case, these symbols represented militant
Frauke Mennes, John P. Hayes, David Kloos, Martha Lagace, Morten Koch Andersen, Somdeep Sen, Matthew Porges, and Sa’ed Atshan
). Seeing the imperious killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, or 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio, it would seem almost self-evident that American whiteness is meant to destroy the black body. Black nationalism responds by underlining
Between Labor Migration and Forced Displacement
Wartime Mobilities in the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire Transnational Space
Jesper Bjarnesen
region, Côte d’Ivoire) .” Pp. 213 – 240 in Land and the Politics of Belonging in West Africa , ed. R. Kuba and C. Lentz . Leiden : Brill . Collett , Moya . 2006 . “ Ivorian Identity Constructions: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Prelude to
Achieving the Ordinary
Everyday Peace and the Other in Bosnian Mixed-Ethnicity Families
Keziah Conrad
which family members reflect on complex histories of alliance and friction in the family, histories that are in turn related to the larger events of the war and the rise of nationalism. Given the persistent salience of ethnicity as an organizing force of
Portrait
J. D. Y. Peel
Marloes Janson, Wale Adebanwi, David Pratten, Ruth Marshall, Stephan Palmié, Amanda Villepastour, and J. D. Y. Peel
Edited by Richard Fardon and Ramon Sarró
Nationalism . Exemplifying what Brubaker ( 2001: 533 ) deems the “disabling consequences of identity politics,” John summarizes the book’s trajectory: “Hucks’s subject is not the Yoruba themselves, nor the interaction between Nigerian Yoruba and ‘Yoruba
Processes of Territorialization in Mexico
Indigenous Government, Violence, and Comunalidad
Philipp Wolfesberger
, Guillermo . 2006 . “ A New Mexican Nationalism? Indigenous Rights, Constitutional Reform and the Conflicting Meanings of Multiculturalism .” Nations and Nationalism 12 ( 2 ): 279 – 302 . 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2006.00241.x Deleuze , Gilles , and