Nations and Nationalism

Philip Spencer is Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University. He is co-author (with Howard Wollman) of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 2002). Howard Wollman is Head of the School of Health and Social Sciences at Napier University.

• Introduction; I THE ORIGINS OF NATIONALISM; 1. Anthony Smith Ethno-symbolism and the Study of Nationalism; 2. Adrian Hastings The Construction of Nationhood; 3. Ernest Gellner Nationalism and modernity; 4. Benedict Anderson Imagined Communities; 5. John Breuilly Nationalism and the State; Further Reading; II APPROACHES TO NATIONALISM; 6. Andrew Vincent. Liberal Nationalism - An Irresponsible Compound?; 7. Erica Benner Really Existing Nationalisms - A Post-Communist View from Marx and Engels; 8. Joane Nagel Masculinity and Nationalism: Gender and Sexuality in the Making of Nations; Further Reading;; III DIFFERENTIATING NATIONALISM - NATIONALISM, RACISM, ETHNICITY; 9. Thomas Eriksen Ethnicity and Nationalism; 10. Paul Gilroy Between Camps; 11. Etienne Balibar Racism and Nationalism; Further Reading; IV FORMS OF NATIONALISM; 12. Anthony Smith Civic and Ethnic Nationalism; 13. Michael Billig Banal Nationalism; 14. Philip Spencer and Howard Wollman Good and Bad Nationalisms; Further Reading; V NATIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION AND NATIONALIST MOBILISATION; 15. Margaret Moore On National Self-Determination; 16. Partha Chatterjee Whose Imagined Community?; 17. Dominic Thomas Constructing National and Cultural Identities in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa; 18. Mark Beissinger How Nationalisms Spread: Eastern Europe Adrift the Tides and Cycles of Nationalist Contention; Further Reading; VI GLOBALIZATION, CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONALISM;; 19. Michael Mann Has globalization ended the rise and rise of the nation-state?; 20. Stephen Castles Citizenship and the Other in the Age of Migration; 21. David Held Culture and Political Community: National, Global and Cosmopolitan; Further Reading.

There is definitely a need for a reader such as this one to gather these materials and to influence the way these matters are presented in the classroom. I very much like the idea of pairing theoretical (classic and contemporary) with historical material.