Full Description
Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.
Bringing the Nation Back In takes as its starting point a series of developments that shaped politics in the United States and Europe over the past thirty years: the end of the Cold War, the rise of financial and economic globalization, the creation of the European Union, and the development of the postnational. This book contends we are now witnessing a break with the post-1945 world order and with modern politics. Two competing ideas have arisen-global cosmopolitanism and populist nationalism. Contributors argue this polarization of social ethos between cosmopolitanism and nationalism is a sign of a deeper political crisis, which they explore from different perspectives. Rather than taking sides, the aim is to diagnose the origins of the current impasse and to "bring the nation back in" by expanding what we mean by "nation" and national identity and by respecting the localizing processes that have led to national traditions and struggles.
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. On the Persistence and Difficulties of Political Community: Existential Roots and Pragmatic Outcomes of National Awareness
Mark Luccarelli
Part I. Reassertions of the National
2. Solidarity or Human Rights? National Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
Steven Colatrella
3. The Political Landscape and the Nation-State: Arendtian Commons and the American Revolution
Ole Sneltvedt
4. The Nation in the Universal Language of Eco-globalism
Werner Bigell
Part II: Contextualizing the National: Constraints and Possibilities
5. Belonging: Population Genetics, National Imaginaries, and the Making of European Genes
Venla Oikkonen
6. National Time, Literary Form, and Exclusion: The United States in the 1920s
Bruce Barnhart
7. Taking the Boundaries with You: Italy and the National in the Work of Luigi Di Ruscio, an Italian Migrant Writer in Norway
Sergio Sabbatini
8. Monuments Carved in Film: Developing Civic Awareness through the Memory of Fallen Anti-Mafia Activists
Stefano Adamo
Conclusion: Reframing the National?
9. Nation as Home: Anthropological Foundations and Human Needs
Rosario Forlenza
Contributors
