Michael Banton and Sociology

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Professor Michael Banton died in May 2018 aged 91. His long career involved a decade at the University of Edinburgh in the Department of Social Anthropology before spending the rest of his career at the University of Bristol. In Bristol he was Professor of Sociology (1965-1992) and subsequently Emeritus Professor, during which time he remained deeply engaged in scholarly research and publication (see Obituaries). It seems

On the Roles of Institutions and Agency in Nationalism and the Relations between Them: A Theoretical Enquiry into the Study of Nationalism, Its Present and Future

“…Methodologically, they aspire to provide solid ground for comparative studies of nationalism that enable us to accumulate knowledge beyond that of individual case studies. Finally, empirically they seek to facilitate non-western approaches to and accounts of non-western contexts in recognition of the fact that nationalism studies have traditionally suffered from a pronounced Eurocentrism, although with important exemptions (Banton, 1983;Breuilly, 1993Breuilly, [1982; Green, 2010Green, , 2013Green, , 2020Hechter, 2013;Kedourie, 1971;Warde et al, 2019;Wimmer, 2018).…”