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Identities Nations and Politics after Communism
Author | : Roger E. Kanet |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781317968665 |
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This book focuses on questions of identity that have confronted the countries of Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the communist system that had previously provided them with an identity. This development both facilitated and necessitated a reassessment of the now independent nations’ history, orientation, symbols and identity. In some cases, new states were created without a clear national identity, while in others the nation was regaining statehood, but not always within borders that had an historical association with the nation concerned. The multiethnic character of the space of the former Soviet Union and its erstwhile "satellites," and the long historical legacy of complex relations, boundary changes, population migration, and economic and social changes presented different challenges to the various nations and states concerned. The essays in this volume attempt to elucidate and understand the issues of ethnic and national identity and their relationship to the emerging statehood in various regions of the post-communist world. This study makes clear that some nation-states were far better prepared to handle these issues than others, and that the longer-term impact of the communist experience has varied. This book was previously published as a special issue of Nationalities Papers
Nature and National Identity After Communism
Author | : Katrina Z. S. Schwartz |
Publsiher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780822973140 |
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In this groundbreaking book, Katrina Schwartz examines the intersection of environmental politics, globalization, and national identity in a small East European country: modern-day Latvia. Based on extensive ethnographic research and lively discourse analysis, it explores that country's post-Soviet responses to European assistance and political pressure in nature management, biodiversity conservation, and rural development. These responses were shaped by hotly contested notions of national identity articulated as contrasting visions of the “ideal” rural landscape. The players in this story include Latvian farmers and other traditional rural dwellers, environmental advocates, and professionals with divided attitudes toward new European approaches to sustainable development. An entrenched set of forestry and land management practices, with roots in the Soviet and pre-Soviet eras, confront growing international pressures on a small country to conform to current (Western) notions of environmental responsibility—notions often perceived by Latvians to be at odds with local interests. While the case is that of Latvia, the dynamics Schwartz explores have wide applicability and speak powerfully to broader theoretical discussions about sustainable development, social constructions of nature, the sources of nationalism, and the impacts of globalization and regional integration on the traditional nation-state.
Nations Identity Power
Author | : George Schöpflin |
Publsiher | : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015050125841 |
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In particular George Schopflin questions why states in the West are able to live with the nation as the legitimate space for democratic institutions, wheras in the post-communist world, especially in Eastern Europe, ethnicity is pre-eminent. He argues that the nation is simultaneously ethnic, civic and structured by the state.
Changing Values and Identities in the Post Communist World
Author | : Nadezhda Lebedeva,Radosveta Dimitrova,John Berry |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2018-04-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783319726168 |
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This book offers a comparative analysis of value and identity changes in several post-Soviet countries. In light of the tremendous economic, social and political changes in former communist states, the authors compare the values, attitudes and identities of different generations and cultural groups. Based on extensive empirical data, using quantitative and qualitative methods to study complex social identities, this book examines how intergenerational value and identity changes are linked to socio-economic and political development. Topics include the rise of nationalist sentiments, identity formation of ethnic and religious groups and minorities, youth identity formation and intergenerational value conflicts.
Informal Nationalism After Communism
Author | : Abel Polese,Oleksandra Seliverstova,Emilia Pawlusz,Jeremy Morris |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781838608743 |
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, nation building and identity construction in the post-socialist region have been the subject of extensive academic research. The majority of these studies have taken a 'top-down' approach - focusing on the variety of ways in which governments have sought to define the nascent nation states - and in the process have often oversimplified the complex and overlapping processes at play across the region. Drawing on research on the Balkans, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, this book focuses instead on the role of non-traditional, non-politicised and non-elite actors in the construction of identity. Across topics as diverse as school textbooks, turbofolk and home decoration, contributors - each an academic with extensive on-the-ground experience - identify and analyse the ways that individuals living across the post-socialist region redefine identity on a daily basis, often by manipulating and adapting state policy.In the process, Nation Building in the Post-Socialist Region demonstrates the necessity of holistic, trans-national and inter-disciplinary approaches to national identity construction rather than studies limited to a single-state territory. This is important reading for all scholars and policymakers working on the post-socialist region.
Nationalism After Communism
Author | : Alina Mungiu,Ivan Krastev |
Publsiher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9639241768 |
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Drawing on lessons from post-communist Europe, this book provides a summary of the practical wisdom learned in the management of ethnic conflicts from the Balkans to Chechnya. Grounded in empirical - mostly comparative - research, the essays go beyond theoretical postulates and normative ideals and acknowledge the considerable experience that exists within the post-communist world on ethnic conflict, nation and state building. What does the post-communist experience have in common with other nationalisms and nation-related conflicts, and what, if anything, is unique about it? This book, written by academics with experience as policy advisors, is strongly policy-oriented. The primordial type hypotheses of ethnic social capital and ancient hatreds are tested on the basis of public opinion surveys on nationalism and ethnic cohabitation in various countries in east-central Europe. Power-sharing arrangements in the Balkans, the small separatist Republics of the post-Soviet world as well as ethno-federalism from the former Yugoslavia to the former Soviet Empire are discussed in the respective chapters.
Nation building in the Post Soviet Borderlands
Author | : Graham Smith |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1998-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521599687 |
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This book examines how national and ethnic identities are being reforged in the post-Soviet borderland states.