Theories of Nationalism and National Identity: An Introduction

In this video, I introduce some foundational theories of nationalism and national identity. I look at primordialists like Edward Shills and Clifford Geertz and modernists including Ernest Gellner (Nations and Nationalism) and Benedict Anderson (Imagined Communities). Finally, I take a quick look at the Marxist Hobsbawm's The Invention of Tradition.

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Sources:

Jack David Eller & Reed M. Coughlan (1993) The poverty of primordialism: The demystification of ethnic attachments, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 16:2, 183-202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.1993.999377

Shils, Edward. "Primordial, Personal, Sacred and Civil Ties: Some Particular Observations on the Relationships of Sociological Research and Theory." The British Journal of Sociology 8, no. 2 (1957): 130-45. doi:10.2307/587365.

Gellner, Ernest, Nations and Nationalism

O'LEARY, B. (1997). On the Nature of Nationalism: An Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Nationalism. British Journal of Political Science, 27(2), 191-222. doi:10.1017/S0007123497000112

Özkiriml, Umut, Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction

Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities

Hobsbawm, Eric, The Invention of Tradition

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