Biblical nationalism and the sixteenth-century states

The emergence of Protestant nations in sixteenth-century Europe was driven by the sudden rediscovery of biblical nationalism, a political model that did not separate the religious from the political. Biblical nationalism was new because pre-Reformation Europeans encountered the Hebrew Bible through paraphrases and abridgments. Full-text Bibles revealed a programmatic nationalism backed by unmatched authority as the word of God to readers primed by Reformation theology to seek models in the Bible for the reform of their own societies. Sixteenth-century biblical nationalism was the unintended side effect of a Reformation intended to save souls.     

Colonial legacies,post-colonial (in)securities,and gender(ed) representations in South Asia's nuclear policies

Through a comparative study of India and Pakistan's national security discourses, this article explores the linkages between post-colonial India and Pakistan's nationalist/communalist identities, configurations of masculinities, and gendered representations underpinning their nuclear (in)securities. This paper contends that the colonial politics of place-making in the sub-continent has not only inscribed a process of ‘othering’ between these states but has also facilitated the rise of divergent visions of post-colonial nationalisms, which, at each of their phases and with particular configurations of masculinities, have used women's bodies to re-map India-Pakistan's borders and national (in)securities. This article particularly draws attention to a new form of gendered manipulation in South Asian politics in the late 1990s, whereby both states, embedded in colonial notions of religious/cultural masculinities, have relied on discourses of Hindu/Indian and Muslim/Pakistani women's violence and protection from the ‘other’ to pursue aggressive policies of nuclearization. It is at this conjectural moment of a Hinduicized and Islamicized nationalism (flamed by the contestations of a Hindu versus an Islamic masculinity) that one needs to provide a feminist re-interpretation of India-Pakistan's nationalist identities, gendered imaginaries, and their re-articulation of national (in)securities – that represents a religious/gendered ‘otherness’ in South Asia's nuclear policies.     

Violent civic nationalism versus civil ethnic nationalism: Contrasting Indonesia and Malay(si)a

In 1963 the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, and Sabah formed the Federation of Malaysia. In the same year Indonesia gained control over West Papua. In the first case the integration was accomplished participatory and peacefully, in the second violence reigned supreme. I argue that different visions of community, nation and state, developed during the decades of decolonisation and the early years of state- and nation-building, are responsible for the different outcomes. Contrary to the expectations of the predominant theories on nationalism the ethno-cultural variant of nation-building in Malaysia proved to be much more integrative than the civic variant espoused by the Indonesian nation-builders.     

'Germany's River,but not Germany's Border'-The Rhine as a National Myth in Early 19th Century German Literature

This article demonstrates that American national identity is symbolic, subjective and ambiguous to the extent that it encapsulates senses of both similarity and difference. Citing evidence from life-history interviews with American military veterans from different ethnic groups, the article shows how some Americans can identify with being racially excluded and still share in a sense of national belonging. It is argued here that this feature is and has always been embedded in the processes of American national identification. In making this argument, this article rejects Ramsey Cook's notion that achieving a sense of similarity between universal and particular interests within a national community is hallmark of postnationalism.     

Racial contestation and the emergence of populist nationalism in the United States

Much of the discussion surrounding nationalism still revolves around the ethnic versus civic nation divide. For purposes of this paper it is more useful to view the United States from the tri-modal perspective offered by Anderson, in which the United States is a creole (or settler) nation. All of Anderson's types can be seen as variants of ethnic nationalism. Kaufmann argues that the US evolved from ethnic to civic nationalism by the 1960s. This argument overlooks the importance of phenotype-based racism in the evolution of creole, or white settler colonial nationalism. We want to argue that US nationalism evolved from ethnic, to white racial nationalism in the interwar years. Since the 1920s, the political establishment has opted for civic nationalism that is based upon ‘white assimilationism’. This civic nationalism has been challenged by multiculturalism since the 1960s. In the context of a democratic political culture, the content of American nationalism has become ‘populist’ in the sense that it has come under popular contestation from the assimilationist right and the multiculturalist left. This populist nationalism includes aspects of ethnic and civic nationalism. Racial formation theory will be used to show that national identity may remain under ‘relatively permanent political contestation’ with racial cleavage as a major fault line in that contest. The issues of immigration and the treatment of Muslims since 9/11 will be addressed in order to make the case.     

民族主义立场的激进表达和艺术的超常发挥——对联华影业公司1933年出品的《小玩意》的当下读解

孙瑜不仅是中国左翼电影的滥觞和开创者、最高代表人之一,而且,他和他的作品为20世纪30年代中国左翼电影在整体性质、表现模式和艺术风格上提供了典型性范本。民族经济实力的增强、反强权和抗日救亡理念的传播构成《小玩意》中激进的民族主义立场的主要来源。影片的前半部分带有浓重的旧市民电影模式痕迹,但随着人物性格与主演阮玲玉个性气质的合二为一,影片后半部分"母子相见"和"情人相见"两场戏的处理,是左翼电影强大的艺术感染力得以迸发的成功范例。     

从小读者到小国民:《大公报》《益世报》与儿童国民意识启蒙

《大公报》和《益世报》先后在1927年11月和1929年7月创办了《儿童》《小朋友》两份儿童副刊,积极参与儿童教育事业,以塑造符合现代要求的"小国民".这两份副刊把强健体魄、完善道德、健全责任视为小国民塑造之基,注重以儿童自身主体体验引导小朋友发展自我、参与社会、完善人格,建构了一个既符合儿童认知结构,又被成人"把关者"信任的对话场域.     

“文革”宣传画的性别传播研究

＂文革＂宣传画可以划分为＂革命斗争＂、＂生产建设＂和＂教文卫体＂三种类型。这些类型都从各自的功能出发,服务于新中国建设发展的国家主义实践。＂文革＂宣传画最大的特征是其对样板戏艺术形式的借用,它作为一个功能主义的表意能指,服务于国家主义及其革命意识形态的宏大叙事。＂文革＂宣传画功能主义的性别传播具有以下三大消极特征：1.它表现的是一种革命化的性别和无性化的宣传;2.革命、生产、建设这样的实际功能遮蔽了性别生态的多元显现;3.画作中隐藏的国家女性主义本质上是以国家、阶级和单位替代以往的父权和夫权。     

章太炎的民族主义:天下、世界与民族国家

中国近代的民族主义不仅受到西方的影响,也受到传统历史和思想的制约,研究章太炎的民族主义思想,不能仅限于用西方的民族主义类型对之进行分析,还需要充分考虑近代中国民族主义思想需要处理的一个重大问题,即传统"天下"观念如何同时向"世界"和民族国家观念转变。对章太炎关于种族与文明、排满与种界、民族与国家等三个层面的思想的考察充分地说明此一转变在他身上的表现。     

汉初士人的人格精神

汉初政论文的阳刚风格展示出汉初士人奋发扬厉的人生情怀和积极用事的昂扬姿态,展现了汉初士人在大一统的时代背景下积极进取、刚健有为的人格精神魅力与我国优秀的传统人文主义精神,具体表现在热衷政治的事功精神、维护大一统的爱国精神和民族精神、忧国忧民的忧患意识三个方面.这三个方面彼此联系,密不可分,共同构成了汉初士人的人格精神魅力.