Eric Storm A New Dawn in Nationalism Studies? Some Fresh Incentives to Overcome Historiographical Nationalism
It seems that nothing really new has happened with nationalism studies over the last three decades. The path-breaking works that were published in 1983 – Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, Ernest Gellner’s Nations and Nationalism and Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition – still provide the interpretative framework for almost all existing studies. Moreover, over the last three decades an enormous amount of case studies have been published that focus on one national context, so it is difficult to get an overview of the entire field. As a consequence, the differences between the various national cases have received more attention than the similarities. Recently, however, a few books have appeared on the market that not only seriously update the now classic views of these authors, but can potentially sit alongside them in the pantheon of nationalism studies. Moreover, they could help us overcome the historiographical nationalism that still largely dominates our discipline.
Source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0265691417741830
It seems that nothing really new has happened with nationalism studies over the last three decades. The path-breaking works that were published in 1983 – Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, Ernest Gellner’s Nations and Nationalism and Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition – still provide the interpretative framework for almost all existing studies. Moreover, over the last three decades an enormous amount of case studies have been published that focus on one national context, so it is difficult to get an overview of the entire field. As a consequence, the differences between the various national cases have received more attention than the similarities. Recently, however, a few books have appeared on the market that not only seriously update the now classic views of these authors, but can potentially sit alongside them in the pantheon of nationalism studies. Moreover, they could help us overcome the historiographical nationalism that still largely dominates our discipline.
Source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0265691417741830
It seems that nothing really new has happened with nationalism studies over the last three decades. The path-breaking works that were published in 1983 – Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, Ernest Gellner’s Nations and Nationalism and Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition – still provide the interpretative framework for almost all existing studies. Moreover, over the last three decades an enormous amount of case studies have been published that focus on one national context, so it is difficult to get an overview of the entire field. As a consequence, the differences between the various national cases have received more attention than the similarities. Recently, however, a few books have appeared on the market that not only seriously update the now classic views of these authors, but can potentially sit alongside them in the pantheon of nationalism studies. Moreover, they could help us overcome the historiographical nationalism that still largely dominates our discipline.
Source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0265691417741830
It seems that nothing really new has happened with nationalism studies over the last three decades. The path-breaking works that were published in 1983 – Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, Ernest Gellner’s Nations and Nationalism and Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition – still provide the interpretative framework for almost all existing studies. Moreover, over the last three decades an enormous amount of case studies have been published that focus on one national context, so it is difficult to get an overview of the entire field. As a consequence, the differences between the various national cases have received more attention than the similarities. Recently, however, a few books have appeared on the market that not only seriously update the now classic views of these authors, but can potentially sit alongside them in the pantheon of nationalism studies. Moreover, they could help us overcome the historiographical nationalism that still largely dominates our discipline.
Source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0265691417741830