Bringing the Nation Back In

Mark Luccarelli is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. His books include The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space: Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States, 1682–1865. Rosario Forlenza is Fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University. He is the author of On the Edge of Democracy: Italy, 1943–1948. Steven Colatrella is Adjunct Professor of International Political Theory at the University of Padua, Italy, and Adjunct Professor of Government and Sociology at the University of Maryland University College. He is the author of Workers of the World: African and Asian Migrants in Italy in the 1990s.

• Acknowledgments1. On the Persistence and Difficulties of Political Community: Existential Roots and Pragmatic Outcomes of National AwarenessMark LuccarelliPart I. Reassertions of the National 2. Solidarity or Human Rights? National Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Twenty-First CenturySteven Colatrella3. The Political Landscape and the Nation-State: Arendtian Commons and the American RevolutionOle Sneltvedt4. The Nation in the Universal Language of Eco-globalismWerner BigellPart II: Contextualizing the National: Constraints and Possibilities 5. Belonging: Population Genetics, National Imaginaries, and the Making of European GenesVenla Oikkonen6. National Time, Literary Form, and Exclusion: The United States in the 1920sBruce Barnhart7. Taking the Boundaries with You: Italy and the National in the Work of Luigi Di Ruscio, an Italian Migrant Writer in NorwaySergio Sabbatini8. Monuments Carved in Film: Developing Civic Awareness through the Memory of Fallen Anti-Mafia ActivistsStefano AdamoConclusion: Reframing the National? 9. Nation as Home: Anthropological Foundations and Human NeedsRosario ForlenzaContributors

"This is an innovative and refreshingly idiosyncratic volume that applies a range of bottom-up analyses to the problem of the nation, nationalism, and the nation-state. Framed by very readable and highly informative introductory and concluding chapters, the reader is introduced to the variety of approaches to nationalism, not only regarding methodological approaches and theoretical trends but also regionally specific meanings of the nation." — Harald Wydra, author of Politics and the Sacred