Neo-nationalism in Europe and beyond : perspectives from social anthropology

摘要: By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have established themselves in a number of world's large regions and subcontinents. From Australia to South Asia, Eastern Western Europe, comparable parties movements positioned national parliaments governments, with some considerable impact on state power. In contrast right-wing extremist past, these recent mostly operate within legal parliamentary channels, using essentialized notions local culture mobilize against real alleged threats identities status, gender, religion, nationhood ethnicity. Prompted by this near-simultaneous rise political influence more than dozen apparently similar across collection offers range European case studies selected global examples, such as Front National, late Pim Fortuyn, India BJP, Pauline Hanson her One Nation Party Australia. It takes up theoretical methodological challenges posed phenomenon asks what distinctive contributions anthropology might make its study. Andre Gingrich is Full Professor Social Anthropology at University Vienna. Recent publications include Anthropology, Comparison (co-edited Richard G. Fox, 2002) Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, American Anthropology: The Halle lectures (co-authored Frederik Barth, Robert Parkin Sydel Silverman, Chicago Press, forthcoming). Marcus Banks Visual Oxford, author Organizing Jainism England (Clarendon 1992); Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions (Routledge, 1996) Methods Research (Sage, 2001), well numerous journal articles book contributions.