Ethnic Nationalism in Korea

Ethnic Nationalism in Korea

Author: Gi-Wook Shin

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2006-03-22

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0804768013

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This book explains the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism, which is based on the sense of a shared bloodline and ancestry. Belief in a racially distinct and ethnically homogeneous nation is widely shared on both sides of the Korean peninsula, although some scholars believe it is a myth with little historical basis. Finding both positions problematic and treating identity formation as a social and historical construct that has crucial behavioral consequences, this book examines how such a blood-based notion has become a dominant source of Korean identity, overriding other forms of identity in the modern era. It also looks at how the politics of national identity have played out in various contexts in Korea: semicolonialism, civil war, authoritarian politics, democratization, territorial division, and globalization.


Ethnicity and Nationalism

Ethnicity and Nationalism

Author: Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 9780745307015

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En analyse af forholdet mellem etnicitet, klasse, socialt køn og nationalt tilhørsforhold og med tanker om fremtidsudsigterne.


From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism

From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism

Author: Jens Rydgren

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781845452186

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During the last 15-20 years a new party family of radical right-wing populism (RRP) has emerged in Western Europe, consisting of parties such as the French Front National and the Austrian Freedom's Party, among many others. Contrary to the situation in the other Scandinavian countries, such parties have been largely unsuccessful in Sweden. Although Sweden saw the emergence of the populist party New Democracy - which partly can be classified as a RRP party - in the early 1990s, it collapsed in 1994, and no party has so far been successful enough to take its place. Most of the literature on populism and right-wing extremism deals with successful cases; this book takes the opposite direction and asks how one can explain the failure of Swedish radical right-wing populism.


Introduction to Comparative Politics

Introduction to Comparative Politics

Author: Robert Hislope

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-03-26

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0521765161

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This accessible introduction to comparative politics offers a fresh, state-centered perspective on the fundamentals of political science.


Ethnonationalism

Ethnonationalism

Author: Walker Connor

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0691025630

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A series of essays which explores the origins and dynamics of the concept of ethnonationalism. The author explains why the phenomenon has been misunderstood by Western policy-makers who consistently underrate its influence and misinterpret its non-rational, passionate qualities.


The Moral Economies of Ethnic and Nationalist Claims

The Moral Economies of Ethnic and Nationalist Claims

Author: Bruce J. Berman

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2016-09-15

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0774833173

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At a time when states, armed insurgent movements, and ethnic and nationalist political parties make claims based on the defence of communal interests and political and religious ideologies – with often deadly consequences – it is important to understand the discourses and actions that are used to legitimize these claims. This book argues that competing moral economies – the beliefs and practices that normatively regulate and legitimize the distribution of wealth, power, and status in a society – play an important role in ethnic and nationalist conflict. Bringing together international experts on the politics of ethnicity and nationalism, this final volume in the prestigious EDG series investigates how moral economies have been challenged in identity-based communities in ways that precipitate or exacerbate conflicts. The combination of theoretical chapters and case studies ranging from Africa and Asia to North America provides compelling evidence for the value of moral economy analysis in understanding problems associated with ethnic and nationalist mobilization and conflict.


Nations

Nations

Author: Azar Gat

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1107007852

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A groundbreaking study of the foundations of nationalism, exposing its antiquity, strong links with ethnicity and roots in human nature.


Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict

Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict

Author: Andreas Wimmer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-06-06

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780521011853

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Andreas Wimmer argues that nationalist and ethnic politics have shaped modern societies to a far greater extent than has been acknowledged by social scientists. The modern state governs in the name of a people defined in ethnic and national terms. Democratic participation, equality before the law and protection from arbitrary violence were offered only to the ethnic group in a privileged relationship with the emerging nation-state. Depending on circumstances, the dynamics of exclusion took on different forms. Where nation building was successful , immigrants and ethnic minorities are excluded from full participation; they risk being targets of xenophobia and racism. In weaker states, political closure proceeded along ethnic, rather than national lines and leads to corresponding forms of conflict and violence. In chapters on Mexico, Iraq and Switzerland, Wimmer provides extended case studies that support and contextualise this argument.


After the USSR

After the USSR

Author: Anatoly Michailovich Khazanov

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780299148942

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Khazanov's astute assessments of ethnic and political strife in Russia, in Chechnia, in Central Asia, in Kazakhstan, among the Meskhetian Turks, and among the Yakut of Eastern Siberia illuminate the interconnections between nationalism, ethnic relations, social structures, and political process in the waning days of the USSR and in the new independent states. Exploring the Soviet nationality policy and its failure to satisfy national aspirations, Khazanov demonstrates the fatal flaws of totalitarian rule and the impossibility of reforming it. Khazanov cautions that the liberal democratic direction of current transformations in the former Soviet Union should not be taken for granted. For most of the independent states, he points out, departing from totalitarianism requires creation of a civil society for the first time in their history. The state's partial retreat from the public sphere leaves a dangerous institutional vacuum, in which nationalism is emerging as the dominant ideology. He warns that this new, post-totalitarian society is still a far cry from a genuine liberal democracy and, despite its inherent instability, may turn out to be a long-lasting phenomenon.


The Challenges of Ethno-Nationalism

The Challenges of Ethno-Nationalism

Author: A. Guelke

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-05-19

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 023028213X

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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.