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Berghahn Books Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond Perspectives from Social Anthropology 2006 Edition by Andre Gingrich, Marcus Banks
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. Table of contents :- AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Neo-nationalism in Europe and BeyondMarcus Banks and Andre GingrichPART I: CONCEPTS AND METHODSChapter 1. Nation, Status and Gender in Trouble? Exploring Some Contexts and Characteristics of Neo-nationalism in Western EuropeAndre GingrichChapter 2. Performing 'Neo-nationalism': Some Methodological NotesMarcus BanksPART II: CASE STUDIES FROM WESTERN EUROPEChapter 3. Imagined Kinship: The Role of Descent in the Rearticulation of Norwegian Ethno-nationalismMarianne GullestadChapter 4. The Emergence of Neo-nationalism in Denmark, 1992-2001Peter HervikChapter 5. 'At Your Service!': Reflections on the Rise of Neo-nationalism in the NetherlandsThijl Sunier and Rob van GinkelChapter 6. Neo-nationalism and Democracy in Belgium: On Understanding the Contexts of Neo-communitarianismRik PinxtenChapter 7. 'Being the Native's Friend Does Not Make You the Foreigner's Enemy!'Neo-nationalism, the Freedom Party and Joerg Haider in AustriaThomas FillitzChapter 8. Neo-nationalism or Neo-localism? Integralist Political Engagements in Italy at the Turn of the MillenniumJaro StaculChapter 9. Regarding the Front NationalGerald Gaillard-StarzmannPART III: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVESChapter 10. 'Healthy Native Soil' versus Common Agricultural Policy: Neo-nationalism and Farmers in the EU, the Example of AustriaGertraud SeiserChapter 11. New Nationalisms in the EU: Occupying the Available SpaceMaryon McDonaldPART IV: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVESChapter 12. Neo-nationalism in India: A Comparative CounterpointMukulika BanerjeeChapter 13. Nationalism and Neo-populism in Australia: Hansonism and the Politics of the New Right in AustraliaBruce Kapferer and Barry MorrisPART V: AFTERTHOUGHTSAfterthoughtsUlf HannerzNotes on ContributorsSubject IndexName Index