Globalisation, postnationalism and Australia

2020 ◽  
pp. 144078332096454
Author(s):  
Anthony Moran
Keyword(s):  
National Identities ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Institutional Form ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World

Postnational institutions and identities are products of globalisation. How far along the ‘postnational’ road the world has travelled is debatable. In the early 2000s Habermas referred to an emerging ‘post national constellation’. While the nation-state is still an important institutional form, postnational identities and experiences challenge the boundaries of nation-states, and also national identities. Cosmopolitanism as an outlook, set of predispositions and practices is often seen as postnational, and celebrated as such, since it implies the embrace of humanity beyond nation. To what extent have national identities (as opposed to other kinds of identities) been threatened, undermined or superseded by postnational identities? To what extent is the postnational a utopian hope for a cosmopolitan future, and to what extent is the postnational already upon us – whether we recognise it or not? What are the most convincing examples of postnationalism? This article addresses such questions, with a focus on Australia.

Language and Nation: For a Cultural Renewal of India

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
State Model ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Cultural Renewal ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
Pluralist Approach

West European nation-states which emerged after the Treaty of West Phalia concluded in 1648 were established based on the maxim: one nation, one (official language). But this principle and policy are inappropriate for multinational and ployglot polities. And yet, the tendency to imitate the nation-state model persists all over the world. The inherent inappropriateness of this model is unfolded through an examinationof the linguistic situation and language policy in India. After locating the deficits in the three approaches advocated in India-traditionalist, nationalist and modernist-the pluralist approach is put forward as a viable and democratic alternative for a cultural renewal of India. This approach, it is argued, will facilitate the programme of eradication of illiteracy, project of participatory development and the process of socio-political transformation all of which are pre-requisites for cultural renewal.

scholarly journals NEGARA-BANGSA: PROSES DAN PERBAHASAN BY A. R. EMBONG: PENERBIT UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA, 2001, 143 PAGES.

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-425
Author(s):  
Nurul Aimi Razali ◽  
Khairul Azman Mohd Suhaimy ◽  
Lutfan Jaes
Keyword(s):  
Nation State ◽  
Review Journal ◽  
State Process ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
Conference Papers

Negara-Bangsa Proses dan Perbahasan (Malay for Nation-State: Process and Debate) by Abdul Rahman Embong, is a book that brings together nine essays on nation-state discussions written from 1995 to 2000. Five essays developed into Chapters 2, 4, 7, 8 and 9 were essays published in the Pemikir journal published by the Utusan Melayu Group while Chapters 5 and 6 were conference papers presented by Abdul Rahman in a seminar. All these essays have been updated and improved for the purpose of publishing this book. Additionally, Chapters 1 and 3 are new chapters written specifically for this book, which also debate on and discuss nation-states. Through this work, Abdul Rahman offers a continual, inclusive and semi-controversial perspective on important issues of Malaysia and its nation in particular and the world in general. The book also aims to promote deep discussion of the world of thought with the nation-state of Malaysia and the Malaysian nation as the main focus.   Cite as: Razali, N. A., Mohd Suhaimy, K. A., & Jaes, L.  (2020). Negara-bangsa: Proses dan perbahasan (Book review). Journal of Nusantara Studies, 5(2), 411-425. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol5iss2pp411-425

Indigenous Peoples and Nation-States in Spanish America, 1780–2000

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florencia E. Mallon
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Nation State Formation ◽  
Independence Movements

This article shifts the discussion of race from Afro- to Indo-America, focusing on a corpus of historical studies that underline how Amerindians, anti-Indian racism, and Indigenism have played a central role in the formation of nations and national identities along the mountainous backbone of Spanish America. With the crisis of the Spanish colonial system and the rise of independence movements, emerging elites interested in projects of nation-state formation entered into new forms of negotiation and confrontation with indigenous peoples and their visions for both inclusion and autonomy. While these negotiations differed markedly from those that had earlier taken place between Natives and the colonial state, they were conditioned by the forms of conquest and colonization that had gone before, as well as by emerging political, geographic, military, and economic distinctions among the newly independent societies.

Statofobia jako przyczyna cofania się fali demokratyzacji

2019 ◽  
Vol XV ◽  
pp. 97-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Wałdoch
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
The State ◽  
Electoral Behavior ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Weak State ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The World

In this article an assumption is made that several factors are responsi-ble for current democracy state. First of all the state-phobia phenome-non is scrutinized while looking for factors which are responsible for citizens reluctance and fear of state. Hypothesis is raised that state-phobia cause withdrawal of democratization wave in today’s nation-states. Trying to solve this problem out author highlighted the impor-tance of the idea of state in political thought and an impact of socio-economic pattern of the world we observe (impact of neoliberalism). Political attitudes summarized as state-phobia rise from a number of factors and cause a number of spaces connected with political life such as electoral behavior. It seems that the lack of trust toward nation-state works like a perpetuum mobile causing the weak state and inefficient institution.

scholarly journals Olympic Diplomacy and the Emerging States: Striving for Influence in the Multipolar World

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (79) ◽  
pp. 73-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Đana Luša
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
National Interests ◽  
The World ◽  
The Olympic Games

AbstractThe world of sports is a reflection of the world of politics. It is becoming increasingly multipolar with the emerging states hosting mega sporting events. Firstly, the article problematizes the concept of multipolarity and, secondly, globalisation by questioning whether the Olympic Games reinforce national identities and promote national interests by using Olympic diplomacy as a soft power tool. In doing so, the article explores the correlation between the changes in international affairs and the hosting of and participation at the Olympic Games by emerging states such as Brazil, China and Russia. The analysis distinguishes globalisation from the role of the nation-state, by highlighting the evident differences between emerging states in terms of hosting the Games, but also takes into consideration geopolitical and geo-economic parameters.

scholarly journals "Loathsome and Dangerous": Health Screening in a Globalized World

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-20
Author(s):  
Gabriel Hearn-Desautels
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Screening ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Nation States ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
Globalized World

Note: In lieu of an abstract, this is the article's first paragraph. "As the world has become steadily more interdependent over the last century, disease has been able to spread with increasing ease. As a consequence of this new danger, the international community has changed the way that it understands contagion, and public health has taken on new roles and new meanings around the world. I argue that the globalization of public health and the relatively new perception of diseases as “global” threats have dramatically altered practices of health screening, both at the border and beyond. Above all, these changes also reveal the importance of public health systems in supporting the nation-state system as a whole. Using a brief history of the WHO, Part I discusses how globalization has facilitated a shift in thinking about disease as a “global” threat rather than as an “international” problem. Part II examines the historical significance of public health policies in defining national identities, as well as the extent to which globalization has made this difficult. Finally, Part III uses three case studies to suggest that the new “global health” paradigm has provided nation-states with the tools to reassert claims to national sovereignty and identity-building in an increasingly globalized world."

scholarly journals "Loathsome and Dangerous": Health Screening in a Globalized World

2020 ◽  
pp. 4-20
Author(s):  
Gabriel Hearn-Desautels
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Screening ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Nation States ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
Globalized World

Note: In lieu of an abstract, this is the article's first paragraph. "As the world has become steadily more interdependent over the last century, disease has been able to spread with increasing ease. As a consequence of this new danger, the international community has changed the way that it understands contagion, and public health has taken on new roles and new meanings around the world. I argue that the globalization of public health and the relatively new perception of diseases as “global” threats have dramatically altered practices of health screening, both at the border and beyond. Above all, these changes also reveal the importance of public health systems in supporting the nation-state system as a whole. Using a brief history of the WHO, Part I discusses how globalization has facilitated a shift in thinking about disease as a “global” threat rather than as an “international” problem. Part II examines the historical significance of public health policies in defining national identities, as well as the extent to which globalization has made this difficult. Finally, Part III uses three case studies to suggest that the new “global health” paradigm has provided nation-states with the tools to reassert claims to national sovereignty and identity-building in an increasingly globalized world."

scholarly journals From Place to Territories and Back Again

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mishuana Goeman
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
State Spaces ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
Natural Element

This article explores the geopolitical importance of the word “land” to the field of Indigenous studies. Rather than simply take the word “land” as a given and natural element of the world around us, in this article I suggest a closer interrogation of the multiple social and geopolitical meanings that make land a key concept in indigenous political struggle. The processes of colonialism and neocolonialism resulted in abstracting land as part of making nations that are recognized by the liberal settler nation-states. How have concepts of land changed in this process? How do we make Indigenous spaces that are not based on abstracting land and Indigenous bodies into state spaces, while maintaining political vitality? How are the lived realities of Indigenous peoples impacted by concepts of borders and territories that support the power of the nation-state? I draw on the narrative dimensions of land in the work of Indigenous writers in order to intercede in limiting the meanings of land to those mapped by the state.

scholarly journals Space, as it relates to Nationalism: Ramifications for the Taiwan Straits Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
Anthony Baker
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Chinese Nationalism ◽  
Chinese Nation ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
Taiwan Straits ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Before the modern nation-states took form, borders between polities were often ill defined, with a political capital having more control over regions which are closer than those at a distance. However, the nation-state redefined a government's relationship to the region over which it claimed control, lending to a consolidation of control to the center and sharp-formed borders. This paper takes a historiographical approach to understanding space as it relates to the nation, and its ramifications for the Taiwan Straits Crisis. We will also look at how the theories and approaches used by environmental historians can be applied to Taiwan's place in the Chinese nation. This paper also explores the relationship of space and nationalism with the aid of works of theory, works which deal with both theory and practice in other polities in the world, this paper focus those theories and practices to Chinese nationalism.

Kurdish Women in the Zone of Genocide and Gendercide

1970 ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Shahrazad Mojab
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Kurdish Women ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
The World ◽  
Forms Of Violence

The first political struggles for women’s emancipation coincide with the rise of nations, nationalism, and the nation-state during the bourgeois democratic revolutions of the late eighteenth century. This formation of modern nation states has generally been associated with the use of violence. War, massacre, genocide, and ethnic cleansing are some of the forms of violence used by both premodern and modern states throughout the world. All these forms of violence have been patriarchal. State violence and patriarchal violence have been and still are inseparable.

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