Nationalism and Multiple Modernities - Europe and Beyond

"Nationalism and Multiple Modernities: Europe and Beyond explores new horizons in the study of nationalism by examining the modernity of nationalism with the theory of multiple modernities. The theory of multiple modernities has triggered a renewed debate on modernity by proposing a non-Western centric approach to the study of modernity. The volume applies the concept of multiple modernities to the study of nationalism and proposes a reformulation of nationalism as a form of cultural programmes that reflects enhanced human reflexivity. Three cases - Anglo-British, Finnish and Japanese - are investigated to examine the ways in which nationalism embodies an exercise of human agency. The volume commends the human-agency centred approach to nationalism as a way of avoiding Western-centricity in a social scientific investigation. Based on its examination of the three cases the volume suggests new directions in research into the relationship between nationalism and religion, non-Western cases of nationalism and 'Europe' as a cosmopolitan orientation"--

List of contents

1. The Modernity of Nationalism 2. Multiple Modernities and Nationalism: Theoretical Exploration 3. The Anglo-British Case: the Archetype? 4. The Finnish Case: Late Modernity at the Edge of Europe 5. The Japanese Case: Non-European Modernity and Nationalism 6. Multiple Modernities and Nationalism Revisited

Product details

• Authors: A. Ichijo, Atsuko Ichijo
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2013
• EAN: 9781137008749
• ISBN: 978-1-137-00874-9
• No. of pages: 151
• Series: Identities and Modernities in Europe; Identities and Modernities in; Identities and Modernities in Europe; Identities and Modernities in
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Sociology, Globalization, Europe, European Politics, Political Sociology, Political Theory, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Sociology, general, Political science and theory, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Europe—Politics and government, Ethnology—Europe, European Culture, Europe;Nation;nationalism