Academic Year/course:
2020/21
33192 - THEORIES OF NATIONALISM
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Information of the subject
Code - Course title:
33192 - THEORIES OF NATIONALISM
Degree:
720 -
737 -
Faculty:
102 - Facultad de Derecho
Academic year:
2020/21
1.1. Content area
Theories of Nationalism
1.2. Course nature
Optional
1.3. Course level
Máster (EQF/MECU 7)
1.4. Year of study
737 - : 2
720 - : 1
1.5. Semester
First semester
1.6. ECTS Credit allotment
6.0
1.7. Language of instruction
English
1.8. Prerequisites
No prerequisites
1.9. Recommendations
None
1.10. Minimum attendance requirement
It is mandatory to complete 80% of seminar work.
1.11. Subject coordinator/s
Angel Rivero Rodriguez
1.12. Coordinator of other university
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1.13. Competences and learning outcomes
1.13.1. Competences
1. General competences:
G1 - Ability to analyze and synthesize complex and extensive information.
G2 - Ability to identify the main ideas of a written text or oral presentation.
G3 - Ability to look for new and original solutions to the problems of the study area.
G4 - Ability to solve problems and make decisions autonomously.
G5 - Ability to relate theory to concrete situations in the real world.
G6 - Ability to work as part of a team.
G7 - Ability to apply the concepts, theories, or models related to the area of study to other contexts.
G8 - Ability to make sound and reasoned judgments, using the language of the study area.
2. Basic skills
B1 - Ability to communicate orally and in public in a correct, clear and reasoned way in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish
B2 - Ability to communicate in writing in a correct, clear, reasoned manner and respecting the formal rules of a scientific text, in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish.
B4 - Ability to search, select and analyze information from different sources in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish.
3. Specific competences
E1. Knowledge of the main theories and approaches of Political Science and Administration Science and their application in different investigations.
E2. Ability to formulate questions and hypotheses and to design an investigation based on them.
E3. Knowledge of the main methods of production of quantitative and qualitative data used in Political Science.
E4. Knowledge of the current state of front-line research in Political Science and ability to make a critical assessment of it.
E5. A developed critical spirit that allows students to put forward arguments and make reasoned judgments about the quality of research in their area of study.
E14. Knowledge of the history of Political Thought.
E15. Knowledge of Contemporary Political Theories.
E16. Knowledge of current theories on participation and political representation.
E17. Knowledge of theories about the phenomenon of nationalism.
E18. Knowledge of the research strategies within the scope of Political Theory.
1.13.2. Learning outcomes
G2. Ability to identify the main ideas of a written text or oral exposition.
G4. Ability to to solve problems and make decisions autonomously.
G5. Ability to relate theory to concrete real-world situations.
G6. Ability to work as part of a team.
G8. Ability to make reasoned and reasoned judgments, using the language of their area of study.
B1. Ability to to communicate orally and in public in a correct, clear and reasoned way in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish.
B2. Ability to to communicate in writing in a correct, clear, reasoned manner and respecting the formal rules of a scientific text, in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish.
B4. Ability to to search, select and analyze information from various sources in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish.
E14. Knowledge of the history of Political Thought.
E15. Knowledge of Contemporary Political Theories.
E16. Knowledge of the current theories on political participation and representation.
E17. Knowledge of theories about the phenomenon of nationalism.
E18. Knowledge of research strategies within the scope of Political Theory.
1.13.3. Course objectives
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1.14. Course contents
The aim of this course is to study nationalism by referring to the main theories that the social sciences offer to explain it.
The course begins with the first debate on nationalism: Mill versus Acton in the 1860s. The course will present the classical discussion on Nationalism (Renan, Jouvenel, Strauss, Mommsen; Wilson, Lenin, Luxemburg, and others in order to introduce the contemporary debate on Nationalism. It is the contemporary debate that forms the core part of the course: Kedourie, Berlin, Gellner, Hobsbawm, Anderson, Hastings, Smith, Schnapper, and others.
Course syllabus:
- How to study Nationalism
- The First Debate on Nationalism: Lord Acton versus John Stuart Mill
- Ernest Renan and the definition of Nation. France and Germany on what constitutes a Nation (1870 Alsace-Lorraine)
- Wilson, Lenin, National Self-Determination and the Principle of Nationalities
- Elie Kedourie and Nationalism as an Ideology
- Isaiah Berlin and the persistence of Nationalism
- Gellner: Nationalism as a side effect of Modernization
- Benedict Anderson and the Nation as an Imagined Community
- Two antagonistic Marxists visions of Nationalism: Hobsbawm and the Invention of Tradition versus Nairn and the fight against Capitalism
- Primordialism, ethnicity, and modernism according to Anthony D. Smith
- Nationalism and Religion: Conor Cruise O'Brien, Adrian Hastings, and Anthony W. Marx
- Republicanism or the Apology of the Political Nation: Dominique Schnapper.
1.15. Course bibliography
Reference books:
Anthony D.Smith, Nationalism and Modernism, (London: Routledge, 1998).
Anthony D. Smith, Nationalism, (London: Polity, 2010).
Umut Özkirimli, Theories of Nationalism. A Critical Introduction, (London: MacMillan, 2000).
Umut Özkirimli, Contemporary Debates on Nationalism. A Critical Engagement, (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005).
Compulsory readings (selected chapters):
Elie Kedourie, Nationalism, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993).
Isaiah Berlin, Against the Current, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013).
Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, (Oxford: Blackwell, Oxford, 1983)
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, (London: Verso, 1991).
Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780, (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1991)
Adrian Hastings, The Construction of Nationhood, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Anthony W. Marx, Faith in Nation. Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).Conor Cruise O'Brien, God Land. Reflections on Religion and Nationalism, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988).
Anthony D. Smith, National Identity, (Reno: University of Nevada Press, Reno, 1991).
Dominique Schnapper, La communauté des citoyens, (Paris: Gallimard, 1994).
Recommended readings:
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on representative government.
Acton, Nationality.
Ernest Renan, Qu'est-ce qu'une nation ?
Lenin, The Right of Nations to Self-Determination.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/
Further reading:
John Breuilly, Nationalism and the State, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998).
Walker Connor, Ethnonationalism. The Quest for Understanding, ( Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1994).
Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Democracy, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1994).
Ernest Gellner, Encounters with Nationalism, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994).
Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism. Five Roads to Modernity, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,1993).
Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, The Invention of tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
Miroslav Hroch, Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).
Michael Ignatieff, Blood and belonging, Journeys into the New Nationalism, (New York: Noonday, 1993).
David Miller, On nationality, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Conor Cruise O'Brien, Ancestral Voices. Religion and Nationalism in Ireland, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995).
Zeev Sternhell, Maurice Barrès et le nationalisme français, (Paris, Fayard/Pluriel, 2016).
Anne-Marie Thiesse, La création des identités nationales. Europe XVIIIe-XIXe siècle, (Paris: Éditions du Seouil, 2001).
Michel Winock, Nationalisme, antisémitisme et fascisme en France, (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2014) .
2. Teaching-and-learning methodologies and student workload
2.1. Contact hours
Class work: 50 hours
Time needed to study and write: 100 hours
2.2. List of training activities
Lectures: 16
Seminars: 8
Tutorials: 12
Compulsory reading: 30
Essays: 11
Presentations: 11
Final work: 62
3. Evaluation procedures and weight of components in the final grade
3.1. Regular assessment
Students will be assessed in the following way:
Tutor-marked assignments (There are 10. It is mandatory to complete at least 8).
Presentations. (Each student should prepare one presentation to deliver in class).
Final exam
The final mark of the course comprises 40% for essays and presentation; and 60% for the final exam.
3.1.1. List of evaluation activities
Final exam: 60%
Essays plus presentation: 40%
Final mark=final exam (60%) + essays and presentation (40%)
3.2. Resit
A new final exam is available to those that do not score at least 5 in the final exam.
3.2.1. List of evaluation activities
Final exam: 60%
Essays+Presentation 40%
4. Proposed workplan
Week 1: Course presentation. How to write essays in social sciences. How to study Nationalism.
Week 2: Nationalism and Democracy: On Mill and Acton. Nationality.
Week 3: Can we define what a Nation is? Renan and the Alsace-Lorraine issue
Week 4: Kedourie, Berlin, Nationalism and the History of Ideas. Seminar 1: Nationalism and the History of Ideas.
Week 5: Nationalism and Modernization. Seminar 2: Gellner and the Sociology of Nationalism
Week 6: Marxism and Nationalism. Seminar 3: Lenin, Hobsbawm and Nairn
Week 7: Benedict Anderson and the Nation as an Imagined Community. Seminar 4: Anderson and America
Week 8: Ethnic groups and Nationalism. Seminar 5: Anthony D. Smith and National Identity
Week 9: Republicanism and Nationalism. Seminar 6: Schanapper and the Political Nation
Week 10: Nationalism and Religion. Seminar seven: Connor Cruise O'Brien, Adrian Hastings and Anthony W. Marx on Nationalism and Religion
Week 11: Conclusions. Seminar 8: Working on Nationalism: a guide.
Week 12: Final exam