Nationalism Reframed
Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe

Nationalism Reframed is a theoretically and historically informed study of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Rogers Brubaker (Author)

9780521572248, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 September 1996

216 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.49 kg

'containuing stimulating ideas, and refreshing thoughts and suggestions, it will undoubtedly find a prominent place among the titles concerning the problems of nations and nationalism.' Contemporary European History

The birthplace of the nation-state and modern nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century, Europe was supposed to be their graveyard at the end of the twentieth. Yet, far from moving beyond the nation-state, fin-de-siècle Europe has been moving back to the nation-state, most spectacularly with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia into a score of nationally defined successor states. This massive reorganisation of political space along national lines has engendered distinctive, dynamically interlocking, and in some cases explosive forms of nationalism. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu and the 'new institutionalist' sociology, and comparing contemporary nationalisms with those of interwar Europe, Rogers Brubaker provides a theoretically sophisticated and historically rich account of one of the most important problems facing the 'New Europe'.

Part I. Rethinking Nationhood and Nationalism: 1. Rethinking nationhood: nation as institutionalized form, practical category, contingent event
2. Nationhood and the national question in the Soviet Union
3. National minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the New Europe
Part II. The Old 'New Europe' and the New: 4. Nationalizing states in the old 'New Europe' - and the new
5. Homeland nationalism in Weimar Germany and 'Weimar Russia'
6. Aftermaths of empire and the unmixing of peoples.

Subject Areas: Social theory [JHBA]