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The State of Nationalism Studies

September 16, 2021

Amid the global resurgence of nationalist governments, this webinar will critically assess what we already know and what we still need to know about nationalism. Mylonas & Tudor (2021) recently identified three trends in contemporary nationalism scholarship:

They also called for more comparative, cross-disciplinary, cross-regional research on nationalism. In this first session of Virtual ASN for the 2021-22 season, we bring together four prominent scholars of nationalism in a conversation about what we know and what we still need to learn about nationalism.

Panelists:

Event Bibliography:

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Hutchinson, John. Nationalism and War. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Hur, Aram. Narratives of Duty: How National Stories Shape Civic Duty in Asia. Cornell University Press (forthcoming).

Kumar, Krishan. Visions of Empire. Princeton University Press, 2019.

Kim, Diana. Empires of Vice. Princeton University Press, 2020.

Kim, Jaeeun. Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea.Stanford University Press, 2016.

Lawson, George. Anatomies of Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

MaleÅ¡ević, SiniÅ¡a. Grounded Nationalisms. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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