Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond : Perspectives From Social Anthropology

By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have established themselves in a number of the world’s large regions and subcontinents. From Australia to South Asia, in Eastern and Western Europe, comparable parties and movements have positioned themselves in national parliaments and governments, with some considerable impact on state power. In contrast to right-wing extremist parties in the past, these recent movements mostly operate within legal parliamentary channels, using essentialized notions of local culture to mobilize against real and alleged threats to local identities of status, gender, religion, nationhood and ethnicity. Prompted by this near-simultaneous rise to political influence of more than a dozen apparently similar parties across Western Europe, this collection offers a range of European case studies with selected global examples, such as the Front National, the late Pim Fortuyn, India and the BJP, and Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party in Australia. It takes up the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by this phenomenon and asks what distinctive contributions anthropology might make to its study. Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond PART I: Concepts and Methods Chapter 1 Nation, Status and Gender in Trouble? Exploring Some Contexts and Characteristics of Neo-nationalism in Western Europe Chapter 2 Performing ‘Neo-nationalism’: Some Methodological Notes PART II: Case Studies from Western Europe Chapter 3 Imagined Kinship: The Role of Descent in the Rearticulation of Norwegian Ethno-nationalism Chapter 4 The Emergence of Neo-nationalism in Denmark, 1992–2001 Chapter 5 ‘At Your Service!’: Reflections on the Rise of Neo-nationalism in the Netherlands Chapter 6 Neo-nationalism and Democracy in Belgium: On Understanding the Contexts of Neo-communitarianism Chapter 7 ‘Being the Native’s Friend Does Not Make You the Foreigner’s Enemy!’Neo-nationalism, the Freedom Party and Jörg Haider in Austria Chapter 8 Neo-nationalism or Neo-localism? Integralist Political Engagements in Italy at the Turn of the Millennium Chapter 9 Regarding the Front National PART III: European Perspectives Chapter 10 ‘Healthy Native Soil’Versus Common Agricultural Policy: Neo-nationalism and Farmers in the EU, the Example of Austria Chapter 11 New Nationalisms in the EU: Occupying the Available Space PART IV: Global Perspectives Chapter 12 Neo-nationalism in India: A Comparative Counterpoint Chapter 13 Nationalism and Neo-populism in Australia: Hansonism and the Politics of the New Right in Australia PART V: Afterthoughts Afterthoughts Notes on Contributors Subject Index Name Index Romania Has A Larger Gypsy Population Than Most Other Countries But Little Is Known About The Relationship Between This Group And The Non-gypsy Romanians Around Them. This Book Focuses On A Group Of Roma (rom Gypsies) Living In A Village In Transylvania And Explores Their Social Life And Cosmology. As The Roma Depend On, And Define Themselves In Relation To, The Surrounding Non-gypsy Populations, Understanding Their Day-to-day Interactions With These Neighbours, Primarily Peasants To Whom They Relate Through Extended Barter, Is Essential. The Author Concludes That, Although Economically And Politically Marginal, The Roma Are Central To Romanian Collective Identity Because They Offer Both Desirable And Repulsive Counter-images, Incorporating The Uncivilized, Immoral And Attractive 'other'. While Creating Tensions, This Interdependence Also Allows For Some Degree Of Cultural And Political Autonomy For The Roma Within Romanian Society.--book Jacket. Roma In The Romanian Figuration -- Cultivating And Harvesting Social Environment -- Gender, Shame, And Honour -- Amari Familia: Belonging Together -- Competing For Equality -- Rom Leadership: Joska Bulibasa -- Romanimo: Towards A Rom Cosmology -- Village Life, Peasant Cosmology -- Exchange And Power -- The Tigan As Signifier -- Epilogue. Ada I. Engebrigtsen. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [206]-212) And Index. Prompted by the near-simultaneous rise to political influence of more than a dozen apparently similar parties across Western Europe, this collection offers a range of European case studies with selected global examples, such as the Front National, the late Pim Fortuyn, and India and the BJP This book has its genesis in a Wenner-Gren sponsored workshop in Brussels - the symbolic and administrative heart of the European Union - in early 2001.