Becoming National

• Introduction 1. Classical Foundations Ernest Renan: "What Is a Nation? Max Weber: "Ethnic Groups" 2. What Do Nations Come From? Ernest Gellner: "Nationalism" Miroslav Hroch: "From National Movement to the Fully Formed Nation" Tom Nairn: "Scotland and Europe" Anthony D. Smith: "The Origins of Nations" Etienne Balibar: "The Nation Form" Prasenjit Duara: "Historicizing National Identity" Benedict Anderson: "Census, Map, Museum" Uffe Ostergard: "Peasants and Danes" Eric Hobsbawm: "Mass-Producing Traditions" Yuri Slezkine: "The USSR as a Communal Apartment" 3. Colonialism, Race and Identity Partha Chatterjee: "Nationalism as a Problem in the History of Political Ideas" Anne McClintock: "No Longer a Future Heaven" Ann Stoler: "Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers" Marianne Heiberg: "Basques, Anti-Basques and the Moral Community" Roselle Tekiner: "Race and the Issue of National Identity in Israel" Stuart Hall: "Ethnicity: Identity and Difference" Paul Gilroy: "One Nation Under a Groove" Julie Skurski: "The Ambiguities of Authenticity" 4. Beyond the Nation David Held: "The Decline of the Nation State" Renata Saleci: "National Identity" Khachig Tololyan: "The Nation-State and Its Others" Liisa Malkki: "National Geographic" David Morley and Kevin Robbins: "No Place Like Heimat" Jeffrey M. Peck: "Rac(e)ing the Nation" Lauren Berlant: "The Theory of Infantile Citizenship" Index

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