Nations and Capital
Nations and Capital: The Missing Link in Global Expansion is a groundbreaking analysis of the ultimate reasons for the emergence of nations and nationalism, as a socio-political and geopolitical instrument in the global expansion of capitalism.
The author provides the missing link in the relationship between nationalism and capitalism and offers a comprehensive critique of classical theories of nationalism, well illustrated by historical examples. He develops an original theory of nations and nationalism, relying on the assumption that the incessant widening of the gap between the capitalist elites and the labouring masses inevitably makes the endless accumulation of capital socially unsustainable. Bridging that gap without changing the structure of society becomes the paramount task for the system, which has to introduce nationalism as a social glue tailored to conceal, but also to cement, the actual polarisation of society.
This book will be of great interest to advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and researchers in political science, sociology, history, international relations, security studies, social and political theory, and nationalism studies.
Zlatko Hadidedi is the Director at the Center for Nationalism Studies in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (www.nationalismstudies.org). He is the author of Forced to be Free: The Paradoxes of Liberalism and Nationalism (2013).
Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity
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This new series draws attention to some of the most exciting issues in current world political debate: nation-building, autonomy and self-determination; ethnic identity, conflict and accommodation; pluralism, multiculturalism and the politics of language; ethnonationalism, irredentism and separatism; and immigration, naturalization and citizenship. The series will include monographs as well as edited volumes, and through the use of case studies and comparative analyses will bring together some of the best work to be found in the field.
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Willie Gin
Separatism and the State
Damien Kingsbury
Beyond Nationalism and the Nation-State
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Unionisms in Times of Change
Brexit, Britain and the Balkans
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The Politics of Conflict and Transformation
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Nations and Capital
The Missing Link in Global Expansion
Zlatko Hadidedi
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Names: Hadidedi, Zlatko, author.
Title: Nations and capital : a social discourse for global expansion / Zlatko Hadidedi.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Series: Routledge studies in nationalism and ethnicity | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021043367 (print) | LCCN 2021043368 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032159706 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032159720 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003246527 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Nationalism--Social aspects. | Capitalism--Political aspects. | Income distribution--Political aspects.
Classification: LCC JC311 .H229 2022 (print) | LCC JC311 (ebook) | DDC 320.54--dc23/eng/20211004
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021043367
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Contents
PART I Nations as nationalism
Chapter I
How to define the self-defined?
Chapter II
Take-it-for-granted
The prehistory of the word
Natio in Latin
Nation in English
Nation in French
Nation in German
The emergence of the discourse
Chapter III
Givens and adaptables
Homogenisation
Mobilisation around the concept
Chapter IV
The ideal of permanence, the reality of randomness
Boundaries and borders
The discourse vs. social phenomenon
Mobility and mobilisation
Chapter V
Reactive or active?
Liberal or illiberal?
PART II No capitalism without nationalism
Chapter VI
Why capitalism?
Embedded and dislodged
Chapter VII
The state in capitalism
The nation-state as a geopolitical device
Chapter VIII
Anti-systemic or pro-systemic?
Chapter IX
Nations and nationalism in the 21st century
Nationalism reinvented
Conclusion
- Part I Nations as nationalism
- Chapter I
- How to define the self-defined?
- Chapter II
- Take-it-for-granted
- The prehistory of the word
- Natio in Latin
- Nation in English
- Nation in French
- Nation in German
- The emergence of the discourse
- Chapter III
- Givens and adaptables
- Homogenisation
- Mobilisation around the concept
- Chapter IV
- The ideal of permanence, the reality of randomness
- Boundaries and borders
- The discourse vs. social phenomenon
- Mobility and mobilisation
- Chapter V
- Reactive or active?
- Liberal or illiberal?
- Part II No capitalism without nationalism
- Chapter VI
- Why capitalism?
- Embedded and dislodged
- Chapter VII
- The state in capitalism