USESEP183 Nations and Nationalism

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Johana Musálková (lecturer)
Johana Musálková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Johana Musálková
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Prerequisites (in Czech)
This course is complementary to my other course "Introduction to Memory Studies" and may be profitably taken together however this is not a requirement.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives (in Czech)
This course explores the sources of our most basic and powerful feelings of political loyalty - our ideas about who we are, who has the right to rule over us, who we are willing to kill and for whom we are willing to die. Throughout the upcoming semester, we shall consider the major theories of ethnicity and of nationalism and use them to explore such fundamental political loyalties with particular attention paid to the European past and present. Topics covered will include the economic and political foundations of nationalism, the construction of nationalist ideologies, the rise of ethnic consciousness, the relationship between ethnicity and the state, and the role of religion, language and violence in ethnic/national movements. The course will be composed of lectures (fortnightly), class-based discussions-cum-seminars (fortnightly), and one fieldtrip.
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • 24th February
    Lecture&Seminar (45&45 minutes)
    An Introduction to the Course and to Nationalism Studies.
    In this class we will discuss basic concepts and definitions regarding Nationalism Studies. Concrete presentations will be assigned to each student and requirements for the Fieldwork Report will be explained. Students will receive a detailed course description and a comprehensive reading list.
    9th March
    Lecture&Seminar (90&90 minutes)
    The Political Uses of Loyalty and Identity - Elites and the Politics of People-Building
    23th March
    Lecture&Seminar (90&90 minutes)
    Nations, Nationalism and the Individual.
    6th April
    Fieldwork trip to Hlučín
    20th April
    Fieldwork Reports presentation and joint discussion

    4th May
    Lecture&Seminar (90&90 minutes)
    Nationalism in Cross-Cultural and Cross-Continental Comparison.
    18th May
    Lecture&Seminar (45&45 minutes)
    Overview of the course behind us, outline of future prospects, final discussion and last comments.
Literature
    required literature
  • Alonso, Ana Maria, (1994) "The Politics of Space, Time and Substance: State Formation, Nationalism and Ethnicity." Annual Review of Anthropology 23: pp. 379-405. info
  • Anderson, Benedict., (1983) Imagined Communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London: Verso. info
  • Billig, Michael (1995) Banal Nationalism. Sage Pub. info
  • Connor, Walker. (1990) "When is a nation?." Ethnic and Racial Studies 13: 92-103. info
  • Frederik Barth, (1969) "Introduction," in Frederik Barth, ed. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. Boston: Little Brown, 9-38. info
  • Gellner, Ernest. (1983) Nations and nationalism Ithaca: Cornell University Press. info
  • Hayden, Robert M. (1996) "Imagined communities and real victims." American Ethnologist 23: pp. 783-801. info
  • Hobsbawm, Eric & Terence Ranger, ed. (1983). The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge University Press. info
  • Hobsbawm, Eric. 1992. 'Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe Today'. Anthropology Today, 8(1): 3-13. info
  • Malkki, Liisa. (1992) "National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National." Cultural Anthropology 7: pp. 24-44. info
  • Smith, Anthony D. (2009) Ethno-symbolism and nationalism: a cultural approach. London: Routledge. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Kombinovaná zkouška
Rozbor zadaných úkolů (koncepce služeb, strategie knihovny)
Projekt (zápočtový, semestrální, seminární)
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2018, recent)
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