State, Nations and Nationalism
Code
711081006
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. Knowledge and understanding of the social dynamics underpinning the processes of construction of the modern state and the emergence of the nation-state, as well as social movements arising therefrom;
2. Ability to apply analytical perspectives of comparative historical sociology to these processes;
3. Knowledge and understanding of the structuring of nationalist movements, including their inseparable relationship with the social construction of nations;
4. Ability to problematize and to analyze present day influence and persistence of nationalist ideological conceptions and movements, using available literature and empirical materials;
5. Development of advanced skills in the critical reading of texts and questioning in relation to social contexts under analysis.
6. Ability to communicate knowledge on the above subjects in a meaningful and accurate way.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
1. State and nation: modern states, old nations?
1.1. The nation-state: \"state building\" and \"nation building\"
1.2. The formation of the modern state: the monopoly of legitimate violence or coercion?
1.3. How does the state build the nation?
1.4. Religion, coercion and social discipline
2. Protest and revolution
2.1. Modernity, protest and revolution
2.2. The American Revolution and the first wave of emancipation of nations
2.3. The French Revolution and the idea of nation
2.4. The liberal revolutions of the 19th century
3. For a typology of nation formation and nationalism
3.1. The old European nations
3.2. The new nations in the Americas
3.3. The unification of Germany and the origins of German nationalism
3.4. Italian unification and the Rissorgimento
3.5. Crises of empires and the assertion of nationalism: Eastern Europe and the Balkans
3.6. Post-colonial nationalisms
4. Theories of nations and nationalism
5. States, nations and nationalism in the age of globalization
Bibliography
Anderson, B. (2005). Comunidades imaginadas: Reflexões sobre a origem e a expansão do nacionalismo. Lisboa: Edições 70.
Breully, J. (1993). Nationalism and the state. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Hall, J.A. (1986). States in history. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Delanty, G. & Kumar, K. (2006). The Sage handbook of nations and nationalism. Londres: Sage.
Eisenstadt, S.N. & Giesen, B. (1995). The construction of colective identity. Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 36, pp. 72-102.
Gellner, E. (1993). Nações e nacionalismo. Lisboa: Gradiva.
Greenfield, L. (1998). Nacionalismo: Cinco caminhos para a modernidade. Mem Martins: Europa-América.
Hobsbawm, E. (2004). A questão do Nacionalismo. Lisboa: Terramar.
Hutchinson, J. & Smith, A.D. (1994). Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hutchinson, J. (ed.) (2001). Understanding nationalism. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Teaching method
1. Lectures (50%).
2. Practical classes (50%): analysis and discussion by the students of sociologically relevant issues; presentation and discussion of texts by teh students, in order to create skills enabling a critical reading of texts.
Evaluation method
Continuous evaluation of assiduity and particiation in practical classes (10%); one oral group presentation of one paper out of the literature (20%); one written essay (70%).