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

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. Ethno-nationalism has been a key concern of the post-Cold War world, often associated with violent conflict and the horrors of ethnic cleansing. This book shows, however, that the issue of ethno-nationalism is much broader than its depiction in the media. It demonstrates how ethno-nationalism is not simply the recourse of minorities seeking separation from existing states, but that it can also be associated with dominant and majority groups. The contributors explore this complex phenomenon through a series of case studies and analyse its wide geographical spread from India to Bolivia and from Russia to Spain. Different angles on the Irish case are presented, and a comparative analysis underscoring the options available for accommodating ethno-nationalist parties and movements is also included. The volume is multidisciplinary and the authors employ a variety of methodologies, including the innovative use of visual representation, to advance our understanding of the nature of ethno-nationalism Front Matter....Pages i-xiii The Multifaceted Nature of Ethno-Nationalism....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 ‘We aren’t the peasants of the seventies’ — Indianism and Ethnic Mobilization in Bolivia....Pages 17-40 Reading the Cyprus Conflict through Mental Maps — An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ethno-Nationalism....Pages 41-59 Defining and Redefining Russianness: The Concept of ‘Empire’ in Public Discourses in Post-Soviet Russia....Pages 60-77 Picturing a Revolution — Photographic Representation of the Orange Revolution in the Ukrainian Newspapers....Pages 78-93 Nationalism and the Market Economy — Challenges to Hindu Nationalism in India....Pages 94-117 How Parties of Stateless Nations adapt to Multi-Level Politics: Catalan Political Parties and their Concept of the State....Pages 118-142 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Equality as Steady State or Equality as Threshold? Northern Ireland after the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement, 1998....Pages 145-160 Nation and Neighbourhood: Nationalist Mobilisation and Local Solidarities in the North of Ireland....Pages 161-176 Modern Irish Nationalism — Ideology, Policymaking, and Path-Dependent Change....Pages 177-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 The Effectiveness of Federal Responses to Ethnic Conflict....Pages 193-210 Local Space and Protest in Divided Societies....Pages 211-231 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....Pages 232-253 Back Matter....Pages 255-257 Ethno-nationalism has been a key concern of the post-Cold War world, often associated with violent conflict and the horrors of ethnic cleansing. This book shows, however, that the issue of ethno-nationalism is much broader than its depiction in the media. It also demonstrates that ethno-nationalism is not simply the recourse of minorities seeking separation from existing states, but that it can also be associated with dominant and majority groups. The contributors explore this complex phenomenon through a series of case studies and analyse its wide geographical spread from India to Bolivia and from Russia to Spain. Different angles on the Irish case are presented, and comparative analysis underscoring the options available for accommodating ethno-nationalist parties and movements is also included. The volume is multidisciplinary and the authors employ a variety of methodologies, including the innovative use of visual representation, to advance our understanding of the nature of ethnonationalism --Résumé de l'éditeur Ethno-nationalism has been a key concern of the post-Cold War world, often associated with violent conflict and the horrors of ethnic cleansing. This book shows, however, that the issue of ethno-nationalism is much broader than its depiction in the media. It also demonstrates that ethno-nationalism is not simply the recourse of minorities seeking separation from existing states, but that it can also be associated with dominant and majority groups. The contributors explore this complex phenomenon through a series of case studies and analyse its wide geographical spread from India to Bolivia and from Russia to Spain. Different angles on the Irish case are presented, and comparative analysis underscoring the options available for accommodating ethno-nationalist parties and movements is also included. The volume is multidisciplinary and the authors employ a variety of methodologies, including the innovative use of visual representation, to advance our understanding of the nature of ethnonationalism --Book Jacket