Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-46928-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 693 g

Reihe: ThirdWorlds

Premature announcements of the eclipse of nation states under 'globalization' and 'empire' stand exposed as the 21st century's first economic crisis underlines their continuing importance. A predominantly cultural study of nationalism was unable to resist the 'globalization' thesis. Focusing on selected Asian cases, this book argues that nationalisms have always contained political economies as well as cultural politics. Placing nation-states centrally in our understanding of modern capitalism, it challenges the 'globalization' thesis. Rather than eclipse, nations and nationalisms have undergone changes under the impact of neoliberalism since the 1970s.
Classical 20th century developmental nationalisms emphasised citizenship, economy and future orientations. Later cultural nationalisms - 'Asian values', 'Hindutva', 'Confucianism' or 'Nihonjiron' - stressed identity, culture and past orientations. Amid neoliberalism's flagrantly unequal political economy, not primarily concerned with material production or productivity, they glorified static conceptions of 'original' cultures and identities - whether religious, ethnic or other - and justified inequality as cultural difference. In contrast to the popular mobilizations which powered developmental nationalisms, cultural nationalisms throve on neoliberalism's disengagement and disenfranchisement, albeit partially compensated by the political baptism of newly enriched groups. Extremist wings of cultural nationalism in some countries were a function of this lack of popular support.

This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Desai, Radhika

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: Nationalisms and Their Understandings in Historical Perspective Radhika Desai Explorations 2 Nationalism and Poverty: Discourses of Development and Culture in Twentieth Century India Sumit Sarkar 3 The Cultural Career of the Japanese Economy: Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms in Historical Perspective Laura Hein 4 From Post-Imperial to Late Communist Nationalism: Historical Change in Chinese Nationalism from May Fourth to the 1990s Guogang Wu 5 Radical Islamism and Failed Developmentalism Saeed Rahnema The Plot Thickens 6 From 'Class' to 'Social Strata': Grasping the Social Totality in Reform-Era China Ann Anagnost 7 Beyond Bandung: Developmental Nationalism to (Multi)Cultural Nationalism in Indonesia Joshua Barker 8 Islamic Cultural Nationalism and Gender Politics in Iran Haideh Moghissi 9 Hermeneutics against Instrumental Reason: National and Post-National Islam in the 20th Century Mohammed A. Bamyeh 10 Nationalism and the Radical Intelligentsia in Thailand Thongchai Winichakul Exceptions that Prove the Rule? 11 From Islamisation to Shariatisation: Cultural Transnationalism in Pakistan Farzana Shaikh 12 A Nationalism Without Politics? The Illiberal Consequences of Liberal Institutions in Sri Lanka Johathan Spencer 13 From Developmental Nationalism to the End of Nation-state in Iraq? Martin Bunton 14 Conclusion: From Developmental to Cultural Nationalisms Radhika Desai

Über Autor(innen)

Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: 'Social Democrats' and the Labour Party (1994), a New Statesman and Society Book of the Month, and editor of Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms; a special issue of Third World Quarterly (2008). She is also the author of of numerous articles in Economic and Political Weekly, New Left Review, Third World Quarterly and other journals and in edited collections on parties, political economy, culture and nationalism. She is working on two books When Was Globalization? Origin and End of a US Strategy and The Making of the Indian Capitalist Class.