Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond

Perspectives from Social Anthropology
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84545-190-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have established themselves in a number of the world’s large regions and subcontinents. From Australia to South Asia, in Eastern and Western Europe, comparable parties and movements have positioned themselves in national parliaments and governments, with some considerable impact on state power. In contrast to right-wing extremist parties in the past, these recent movements mostly operate within legal parliamentary channels, using essentialized notions of local culture to mobilize against real and alleged threats to local identities of status, gender, religion, nationhood and ethnicity.

Prompted by this near-simultaneous rise to political influence of more than a dozen apparently similar parties across Western Europe, this collection offers a range of European case studies with selected global examples, such as the Front National, the late Pim Fortuyn, India and the BJP, and Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party in Australia. It takes up the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by this phenomenon and asks what distinctive contributions anthropology might make to its study.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gingrich, Andre

Banks, Marcus

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond

Marcus Banks and Andre Gingrich

PART I: CONCEPTS AND METHODS

Chapter 1. Nation, Status and Gender in Trouble? Exploring Some Contexts and Characteristics of Neo-nationalism in Western Europe

Andre Gingrich

Chapter 2. Performing ‘Neo-nationalism’: Some Methodological Notes

Marcus Banks

PART II: CASE STUDIES FROM WESTERN EUROPE

Chapter 3. Imagined Kinship: The Role of Descent in the Rearticulation of Norwegian Ethno-nationalism

Marianne Gullestad

Chapter 4. The Emergence of Neo-nationalism in Denmark, 1992–2001

Peter Hervik

Chapter 5. ‘At Your Service!’: Reflections on the Rise of Neo-nationalism in the Netherlands

Thijl Sunier and Rob van Ginkel

Chapter 6. Neo-nationalism and Democracy in Belgium: On Understanding the Contexts of Neo-communitarianism

Rik Pinxten

Chapter 7. ‘Being the Native’s Friend Does Not Make You the Foreigner’s Enemy!’Neo-nationalism, the Freedom Party and Jörg Haider in Austria

Thomas Fillitz

Chapter 8. Neo-nationalism or Neo-localism? Integralist Political Engagements in Italy at the Turn of the Millennium

Jaro Stacul

Chapter 9. Regarding the Front National

Gerald Gaillard-Starzmann

PART III: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Chapter 10. ‘Healthy Native Soil’ versus Common Agricultural Policy: Neo-nationalism and Farmers in the EU, the Example of Austria

Gertraud Seiser

Chapter 11. New Nationalisms in the EU: Occupying the Available Space

Maryon McDonald

PART IV: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

Chapter 12. Neo-nationalism in India: A Comparative Counterpoint

Mukulika Banerjee

Chapter 13. Nationalism and Neo-populism in Australia: Hansonism and the Politics of the New Right in Australia

Bruce Kapferer and Barry Morris

PART V: AFTERTHOUGHTS

Afterthoughts

Ulf Hannerz

Notes on Contributors

Subject Index

Name Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gingrich, Andre
Andre Gingrich is Full Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Recent publications include Anthropology, by Comparison (co-edited with Richard G. Fox, 2002) and One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology: The Halle lectures (co-authored with Frederik Barth, Robert Parkin and Sydel Silverman, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).

Banks, Marcus
Marcus Banks (1960-2020) was Professor of Visual Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and author of Organizing Jainism in India and England (Clarendon Press, 1992); Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions (Routledge, 1996) and Visual Methods in Social Research (Sage, 2001), as well as numerous journal articles and book contributions.

Andre Gingrich is Full Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Recent publications include Anthropology, by Comparison (co-edited with Richard G. Fox, 2002) and One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology: The Halle lectures (co-authored with Frederik Barth, Robert Parkin and Sydel Silverman, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).