The Challenges of Ethno-Nationalism: Case Studies in Identity Politics

by A. Guelke (Editor)

Overview

Ethno-nationalism presents a multitude of challenges to the structure of the international political system and to the internal governance of states. This volume explores the multifaceted nature of these challenges across the world, while also examining how states have responded to meet them, through a wide range of case studies and comparisons.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230224100
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/19/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	257
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

ROB AITKEN is a social anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York, UK EMEL AKÇALI is Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK JOHN COAKLEY is Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin, Ireland KSENIA GORBENKO is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, USA CILLIAN MCGRATTAN is Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Ireland DIARMUID MAGUIRE is Senior Lecturer in Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, Australia RAMÓN MÁIZ is Professor of Political Science at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain OLGA MALINOVA is the leading fellow of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences KLAUS-JÜRGEN NAGEL is Professor of Political Science at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain NIALL Ó DOCHARTAIGH is College Lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland Galway SANGIT KUMAR RAGI is Associate Professor in Political Science at Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi, India JENNIFER TODD is Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Ireland, and Director of the Institute for British Irish Studies

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

List of Tables and Graph viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xiii

1 The Multifaceted Nature of Ethno-Nationalism Adrian Guelke 1

Part I Case Studies

2 'We aren't the peasants of the seventies' - Indianism and Ethnic Mobilization in Bolivia Ramón Máiz 17

3 Reading the Cyprus Conflict through Mental Maps - An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ethno-Nationalism Emel Akçali 41

4 Defining and Redefining Russianness: The Concept of 'Empire' in Public Discourses in Post-Soviet Russia Olga Malinova 60

5 Picturing a Revolution - Photographic Representation of the Orange Revolution in the Ukrainian Newspapers Ksenia Gorbenko 78

6 Nationalism and the Market Economy - Challenges to Hindu Nationalism in India Sangit Kumar Ragi 94

7 How Parties of Stateless Nations adapt to Multi-Level Politics: Catalan Political Parties and their Concept of the State Klaus-Jürgen Nagel 118

Part II Irish Perspectives

8 Equality as Steady State or Equality as Threshold? Northern Ireland after the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement, 1998 Jennifer Todd 145

9 Nation and Neighbourhood: Nationalist Mobilisation and Local Solidarities in the North of Ireland Niall Ó Dochartaigh 161

10 Modern Irish Nationalism - Ideology, Policymaking, and Path-Dependent Change Cillian McGrattan 177

Part III Comparative Analysis

11 The Effectiveness of Federal Responses to Ethnic Conflict John Coakley 193

12 Local Space and Protest in Divided Societies Diarmuid Maguire 211

13 Consociational Peace Processes and Ethnicity: The implications of the Dayton and Good Friday Agreements for Ethnic Identities and Politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Northern Ireland Rob Aitken 232

Index 255