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This book explores the different perspectives and historical moments of nationalism in Cyprus. It does this by looking at nationalism as a form of identity, as a form of ideology, and as a form of politics. The fifteen contributors to this book are scholars of different scientific backgrounds and present Cypriot nationalisms from an interdisciplinary framework, including approaches such as history, political science, psychology, and gender studies. The chapters take a historical approach to nationalism and argue that the world of nations, ethnic identity, and national ideology are neither eternal, nor ahistorical nor primordial, but are rather socially constructed and function within particular historical and social contexts. As a land that was, and still is, marked by opposed nationalisms - that is, Greek and Turkish - Cyprus constitutes a fertile ground for examining the history, the dynamics, and the dialectics of nationalism.
About the author
Thekla Kyritsi is a PhD candidate in Political Science and History at Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences in Athens, Greece. Her published work includes research on women and the early Cypriot press, gender history and the Political Left, as well as contemporary research on gender inequalities. She is a founding member of the Cypriot NGO "Center for Gender Equality and History".
Nikos Christofis is an Assistant Professor at the Center of Turkish Studies and at the College of History and Civilization at Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in Greek, Turkish, English and Spanish. He is the co-author of From the French to the Turkish '68: The Left and the Radicalization of the Student Movement and edited, and contributed to, Cyprus, the Left and (Post)Colonialism (both in Greek). He is a member of the editorial board ofthe journal New Middle Eastern Studies.
