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Informationen zum Autor Graham Smith is Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster and Founding Chair of the Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies (KNOCA). He is a leading authority on participatory and deliberative democracy, citizens' assemblies and climate governance and has been recognized as one of the top 100 most influential academics in government. Zusammenfassung The reforging of national identities of the fourteen borderland post-Soviet states has had a major effect in reshaping the political! cultural and social lives of national and ethnic minority groups. This book analyses these national identities and explores the consequences for the borderland states. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Post-colonialism and borderland identities; Part I. Rediscovering National Histories: 2. National history and national identity in Ukraine and Belarus; 3. National identity and myths of ethnogenesis in Transcaucasia; 4. History and group identity in Central Asia; Part II. Ethnopolitics and the Construction of Group Boundaries: 5. Nation re-building and political discourses of identity politics in the Baltic states; 6. Redefining ethnic and linguistic boundaries in Ukraine: indigenes, settlers and Russophone Ukrainians; 7. The Central Asian states as nationalising regimes; Part III. Language and Nation-Building: 8. Language myths and the discourse of nation-building in Georgia; 9. Language policy and ethnic relations in Uzbekistan.
