The Forging of Nationhood

Geschiere Peter Pandey Gyanendra

ISBN 10: 8173044252 / ISBN 13: 9788173044250

Verlag: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2003

Beschreibung

pp. 303.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18111583

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Forging of Nationhood
• Verlag: Manohar Publishers & Distributors
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 8173044252
• ISBN-13: 9788173044250
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

This book demonstrates that the rhetoric of the inclusive claims of liberty and equality that nationalism and other related movements promote is accompanied by the practice of excluding numerous classes, communities and individuals from precisely these claims. Several papers in this volume show how members of excluded groups can suffer from nationalism's impatience with difference, and conclude with the hope of reforming the nation-state. Includes comparative essays on India, China, Africa and Latin America.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gyanendra Pandey was Professor of History at the University of Delhi from 1986 to 1998, before moving to his present position as Professor of History and Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He is the author of The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh; The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India; and Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India; and a founding member of the Subaltern Studies project. He served as a member of the steering committee of SEPHIS (South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development) from 1995 to 2000. Peter Geschiere taught History and Anthropology at the Free University (Amsterdam), the Erasmus University (Rotterdam) and the EHESS (Paris/Marseille). At present he is Professor of African Anthropology at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam. His recent publications are The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa; and (with Birgit Meyer) Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure. He is member of the steering committee of SEPHIS.