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Nations and Nationalism - JSM430
Title: Nations and Nationalism
Czech title: Národy a nacionalismus
Guaranteed by: Department of Sociology (23-KS)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2019 to 2020
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 8
Examination process: summer s.:oral
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: 35 / unknown (35)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc.
Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc.
Class: Courses for incoming students
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Annotation -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (05.02.2024)
The course is about the history of nationalism’s anthropological research (the 1960s - present), the theory of the cultural and ethnic groups - Anthropological View, changes in the nation’s, ethnicities and minorities historical meanings. Students will explore Ernest Gellner’s theory, Benedict Anderson’s theory (European and non-European approaches), and examples of the nationalists‘ constructions in Europe (Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Scots);, West Europe and the USA before 1989. They will also follow present discussions about the theory of nationalism and its place in social theory in general. Students will also deal with nationalist rhetoric and poetics, and their meanings in the 19th century, during the cold war and after. We then approach post-modern critics of ethnicity, concepts of groups „without ethnicity, “culture / ethnic groups in the diaspora (Czechs abroad, Romanies, Jews - Israelies). Finally, the course works with Bosnians and with regard to the constructions of nations outside Europe on the example of Indoneasia.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (14.02.2021)

Students will attend lectures and seminars, discuss lectured topics and literature, and write and discuss a study on at least four pages (7,200 characters).
The small study will include a brief introduction, a subchapter on the status, methodology, presentation of results and conclusions, and a list of references. If possible, this small study will be discussed in a seminar. The deadline for submitting the study is May 19.


The final test will verify the knowledge of individual topics.

The final test will verify the knowledge of individual topics.
Students can earn up to
- 50 points for the study
- 50 points for the test

The virtual studyroom for our meetings is on the following link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a6c314b04cc6f4b3f8ee6e262f237a674%40thread.tacv2/1613284893838?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2273844aaf-f10c-4dee-aaaf-5eeb27962a5d%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%224c8f8d44-fe6c-468a-857b-ce1e69c7be7b%22%7d


Classification of students for fulfilled duties is as follows:
Evaluation criteria:

The marking criteria will be based on the following percentage system:

100 - 91: A (excellent, with minor lapses)

81 - 90: B (very good, above-average achievement, with a few mistakes)

71 - 80: C (good, overall good performance with some significant mistakes)

61 - 70: D (satisfactory, acceptable performance with substantial mistakes)

51 - 60: E (sufficient, performance fulfils minimum requirements)

50 - 0: F (failed)
Literature -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Martin Hájek, Ph.D. (03.12.2019)

Literature:

Compulsory:

  • Anderson, B. (2016). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism . London: Verso.
  • Gellner, E. (1983). Nations and Nationalism . Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press.
  • Brubaker, R. (2011). Religion and nationalism: Four approaches *. Nations and Nationalism, 18 (1), 2-20. doi: 10.1111 / j.1469-8129.2011.00486.
  • Brubaker, R. (2011). Religion and nationalism: Four approaches *. Nations and Nationalism, 18 (1), 2-20. doi: 10.1111 / j.1469-8129.2011.00486.
  • Holy, L. (nd). Nation against state. The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation, 16-54. doi: 10.1017 / cbo9780511621727.002

 

 

Recommended:

  • Haas, EB (1986). What is nationalism and why should we study it? International Organization, 40 (03), 707. doi: 10.1017 / s0020818300027326
  • Waldron, AN (1985). Theories of Nationalism and Historical Explanation. World Politics, 37 (03), 416-433. doi: 10.2307 / 2010250
  • Fortes, M. & Evans-Pritchard, EE 1940. Introduction. In: M. Fortes & EE Evans-Pritchard (eds) African Political Systems. London: Oxford University Press: 1-23.
  • Freedman, M., & Barth, F. (1970). Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: Difference. The British Journal of Sociology, 21 (2), 231. doi: 10.2307 / 588416
  • Beyer, P. (nd). Globalization and Glocalization. The Sage Handbook of Sociology of Religion, 98-118. doi: 10.4135 / 9781848607965.n6
  • Wimmer, A. & Schiller, NG (2003). Methodological Nationalism, Social Sciences, and Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology. International Migration Review, 37 (3), 576-610. doi: 10.1111 / j.1747-7379.2003.tb00151.
  • Giddens, A. (1991). The consequences of modernity . Cambridge: Polity Press: 63-78
  • Uherek  ,  Z . Not only moving bodies  :  conceived  and  transforming concepts  in  migration studies  . Slovak Ethnography. Roč. 65  , No. 2  (  2017  ), s. 222-233
  • Nodia, G. (2016). Nationalism and Democracy. Democracy . doi: 10.7312 / blau17412-094
  • Hansen, TB (1996). Recuperating Masculinity. Critique of Anthropology, 16 (2), 137-172. two: 10.1177 / 0308275x9601600203
  • Wariavwalla, B. (2000) Religion and Nationalism in India Ram The Hindu Nation, 89: 357, 593-605, DOI: 10.1080 / 003585300225223
  • Mukta, P. (1995). The Politics of Religious Nationalism and New Indian Historiography: Lessons for the Indian Diaspora.
  • DeHanas, D. N. & Shterin, M. (2018) Religion and the rise of populism. Religion, State & Society, 46:3, 177-185, DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2018.1502911
  • Eriksen, TH (2006, March 27). Nations in Cyberspace . Lecture presented by Ernest Gellner Lecture, London School of Economics, London.
  • Meinhof, UH (2018). Living (with) borders: East-West borders in Europe . Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge.
  • Lewellen, Ted C. (2003)  Political Anthropology: An Introduction.  3rd ed. Westport, Conn: Praeger.
Syllabus -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Martin Hájek, Ph.D. (03.12.2019)

I. Theories, basic concepts and ideas of nationalism

1. Basic introduction to nationalism

Lit: Thomas Hylland Eriksen (2001) Small Places, Large Issues. London: Pluto Press: 275 - 293.

2. Theory of Cultural and Ethnic Groups; primordialists, modernists,  Ernest Gellner's and Benedict Anderson's theories. Types of nationalism.

Lit: Thomas Hylland Eriksen (2001) Small Places Large Issues. London: Pluto Press: 261-274.

      Benedict Anderson (2006) Imagined Communities. London, New York: Verso. Revised edition: 67-82.

      John Kane (2016) Nationalism. Queensland: School of Government and Relations.

      Chain Gans (2003) The Limits of Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 7-22.

3. History of the Anthropological Research of Nationalism, Nations and Nation States, Long-Distance Nationalism

Lit: Rogers Brubaker (2004) Ethnicity Without Groups. Cambridge: Harvard University Press: 132-160

4. Transnationalism and Methodological Nationalism

Lit. Andreas Wimmer; Nina Glick Schiller (2003) Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration. IMR 39, 3: 576-610.

 

II. Related concepts: applying theories of nationalism to various segments of society

5. Migration

Lit: Frances Pine: Migration as Hope. Current Anthropology Volume 55, Supplement 9, August 2014

6. Religion

Lit. Brubaker, R. (2011). Religion and nationalism: Four approaches *. Nations and Nationalism, 18 (1), 2-20. doi: 10.1111 / j.1469-8129.2011.00486.

     Wariavwalla, B. (2000) Religion and Nationalism in India Ram The Hindu Nation, 89: 357, 593-605, DOI: 10.1080 / 003585300225223

     DeHanas, D. N. & Shterin, M. (2018) Religion and the rise of populism. Religion, State & Society, 46:3, 177-185, DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2018.1502911

7. Sports

 

III. Case Studies

8. Bosnia and Herzegovina

9. Anthropology of Hope: Poland

10. Community Building (Indonesia, USA)

 

IV. Conclusion

11. Changes of social relations in the intensive globalization era

12. Politics and Forms of Power
 
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