Culture and the Politics of Third World Nationalism

Nationalism in specific political systems combined with a theoretical framework that draws out its universal significance. Ten case studies from South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Europe focus on local cultural factors. Preface: field experience and social theory 1 Introduction: western concepts and non-western realities 2 Towards a new definition of Third World nationalism 3 The stages of proto-nationalism: tribalism, ethnicity and patriotism 4 Social structure of the nation: the ordering principle of national attributes 5 The evolution of religious sects and the emergence of national identities 6 Modern nationalism and egalitarian ideology 7 The politics of nationalism: mass mobilization, linguistic transformation and nationalist movements 8 The mechanism of mass mobilization: symbol manipulation and identity assertion 9 Nationalism as social power: restructuring egalitarian systems 10 The monoethnic state and polyethnic social system: the rise of ethnic nationalism 11 Conclusion: cultural differentiation and political rationalization 12 Epilogue: the rise of Slavic nationalisms and the collapse of transnational ideocracy