Nationalism in Asia and Africa

Kedourie, Eliè

doi:10.4324/9780203043264

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“…Smith, 2003;Weber, 1976). Some countries are ruled through coalitions among different ethnic groups or factions (Bueno de Mesquita, Morrow, Siverson, & Smith, 2002;Bueno de Mesquita, Smith, Siverson, & Morrow, 2003;Riker, 1962), and others still on dynastic vestiges, or have focused on alternative models of authority and rule, such as communism (Connor, 1984;Greenfeld, 1992;Kedourie, 1970). In many cases, elites have institutionalized and cultivated multi-ethnic and polyglot polities.…”

Section: External Threats and Cross-regional Variation In Linguistic mentioning

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Threats to Territorial Integrity, National Mass Schooling, and Linguistic Commonality

Darden

Mylonas

2016

Comparative Political Studies

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Why are some countries more linguistically homogeneous than others? We posit that the international environment in which a state develops partially determines the extent of its linguistic commonality and national cohesion. Specifically, the presence of an external threat of territorial conquest or externally supported secession leads governing elites to have stronger incentives to pursue nation-building strategies to generate national cohesion, often leading to the cultivation of a common national language through mass schooling. Comparing cases with similar levels of initial linguistic heterogeneity, state capacity, and development, but in different international environments, we find that states that did not face external threats to their territorial integrity were more likely to outsource education and other tools for constructing identity to missionaries or other groups, or not to invest in assimilation at all, leading to higher ethnic heterogeneity. States developing in high threat environments were more likely to invest in nation-building strategies to homogenize their populations.

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Section: External Threats and Cross-regional Variation In Linguistic mentioning

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Threats to Territorial Integrity, National Mass Schooling, and Linguistic Commonality

Darden

Mylonas

2016

Comparative Political Studies

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“…Nationalism is an ideology of social organization that emerged out of western Europe and posits the following propositions: (1) humanity is divisible into discrete national units (divinely inspired) and (2) nations are only able to achieve full self-determination and liberty when overseen by a political state that faithfully reflects the national character (Billig 1995;Gellner [1983] 2006; Kedourie [1960Kedourie [ ] 2000Meadows 2010). Due to nationalism's banal ubiquity (Billig 1995, 22), people take the propositions of nationalism for granted.…”

Section: Nationalist Ideologymentioning

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Teaching culture beyond nationalist boundaries: national identities, stereotyping, and culture in language education

Sayer

Meadows

2012

Intercultural Education

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The authors take a critical language pedagogy approach to examining a 2011 controversy over disparaging comments towards Mexicans made by commentators of the British Broadcasting Corporation's automotive show Top Gear. In particular, they focus on the characterization of groups and individuals according to their nationality and examine the ubiquity of nationalism and its ability to shape our conception of culture and in turn our understandings of others as members of 'X national culture.' The fact that humor is often a justification for national stereotyping and that these stereotypes are also connected to racist discourse are also explored. In the second part of the article, the implications of the stereotyping debate for language classrooms are considered. The authors argue that the controversy itself can be used as a tool for critical engagement that helps students deconstruct the underlying nationalist paradigm in L2 classrooms and build greater intercultural awareness.Español: Los autores examinan, desde una perspectiva de la pedagogía crítica del lenguaje, la controversia que surgió en el 2011 debido a los comentarios nocivos hechos hacia los mexicanos por los locutores del show automotriz del BBC, Top Gear. En particular, se enfocan en la caracterización de los grupos e individuos de acuerdo a su nacionalidad, y examinan la ubiquidad del nacionalismo y su capacidad para darle forma a nuestra conceptualización de la cultura y, a su vez, nuestra forma de ver a otros como miembros de una 'cultural nacional X'. Los autores también exploran el hecho de que a menudo se utiliza el humor como una justificación para los estereotipos nacionales, y que estos estereotipos también están conectados al discurso racista. En la segunda parte del artículo, se consideran las implicaciones para la enseñanza de idiomas del debate sobre los estereotipos. Argumentan los autores que la controversia en sí se puede utilizar como una herramienta para promover una postura crítica que ayude a los alumnos a deconstruir el paradigma subyacente del nacionalismo en el salón de lenguas extranjeras y fomente la conciencia intercultural.

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“…For Tilak, this emphasis on disinterested duty, shorn of its caste underpinnings, could serve as a warrant for violent patriotic actions against the British, and it proved highly influential among Hindu, and especially Bengali, youth. Bipin Chandra Pal (1858–1932) went even further, seeing in the Gita a ‘messianic document’; meanwhile the concept of Swaraj , which in the Vedanta signified the highest spiritual state, achieved through self‐control, was turned into the political ideal of national freedom and self‐government and became associated with the political campaigns of the Congress movement (Kedourie 1971: 70–76; Sakai 1961).…”

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“… 5 On the role of the intellectuals in Africa and Asia, see Kedourie (1971). See Gellner (1964: 169–70) for his observations on the role of the intelligentsia; and Gellner (1983) for his more general theory.…”

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National identity and vernacular mobilisation in Europe

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2011

Nations and Nationalism

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Nationalism in Asia and Africa

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Threats to Territorial Integrity, National Mass Schooling, and Linguistic Commonality

Threats to Territorial Integrity, National Mass Schooling, and Linguistic Commonality

Teaching culture beyond nationalist boundaries: national identities, stereotyping, and culture in language education

National identity and vernacular mobilisation in Europe

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