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Cover -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Nations and nationalism -- Nationalism studies -- Objectives -- Outline -- Chapter 2 Discourses and Debates on Nationalism -- Historical overview -- Chapter 3 Primordialism/Perennialism -- What is primordialism? -- The nationalist thesis -- Pierre van den Berghe and the sociobiological approach -- Edward Shils, Clifford Geertz and the culturalist approach -- Adrian Hastings and perennialism -- A critique of primordialism and perennialism -- Primordialism and perennialism today -- Chapter 4 Modernism -- What is modernism? -- Economic transformations -- Political transformations -- Social/cultural transformations -- A critique of modernism -- Modernism today -- Chapter 5 Ethnosymbolism -- What is ethnosymbolism? -- John Armstrong and myth-symbol complexes -- Anthony D. Smith and the ethnic origins of nations -- A critique of ethnosymbolism -- Ethnosymbolism today -- Chapter 6 Contemporary Approaches to Nationalism -- Why 'contemporary'? -- Michael Billig and banal nationalism -- Nira Yuval-Davis, feminism and the politics of belonging -- Partha Chatterjee and postcolonial theory -- Craig Calhoun and nationalism as discursive formation -- Rogers Brubaker and ethnicity without groups -- Andreas Wimmer and ethnic boundary making -- A critique of contemporary approaches -- The outline of a social constructionist approach to nationalism -- Chapter 7 Nationalism: Theory and Practice -- A critique of the theoretical debate on nationalism -- Rethinking nationalism studies: the 'double challenge' -- Epilogue: the imagined community of nationalism scholars -- Bibliography -- Index.

The aim of this collection of essays, the first academic book on the topic in English, is to offer a preliminary analysis of Gezi protests and address the following questions: ''How can we account for the protests?'' and ''Who were the protesters?''

Despite the ever-growing literature on various aspects of the Kurdish question in Turkey, there are practically no normative discussions of Kurdish demands for the public recognition of their identities. This is all the more startling given the ascendancy of philosophical accounts in the literature on minority rights. This article will try to redress the balance by proposing a normative framework that could be used to justify Kurdish demands for recognition, drawing on the broader debates that revolve around Charles Taylor's seminal conceptualization of 'the politics of recognition'. In this context, I will identify nationalism, a strategy used both by the state to suppress demands for recognition and by the minorities to put forward these demands, as the most serious hurdle in the way of the democratic resolution of the 'Kurdish question' in Turkey and promote a form of recognition-based multiculturalism that (a) respects the basic rights of all citizens, not only those in whose name the said claims are made, but also those of the members of the majority against which the claims are voiced; (b) leaves room for alternative values or conceptions of the good life. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractThe aim of this academic obituary is to briefly consider Fred Halliday's (1946‐2010) contribution to nationalism studies. The article will first discuss Halliday's understanding of nationalism, which he defines as a set of ideas that asserts that the world is divided into distinct peoples with a particular history and various entitlements, and his position in the theoretical debate on nationalism. It will then focus on Halliday's combat with the ethical doctrine of nationalism, more specifically the tension between the moral claims of the latter and what he loosely terms Enlightenment principles. The article will conclude by a brief discussion of Halliday's political commitments and his internationalism.