Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond: Perspectives from Social Anthropology

André Gingrich, Marcus Banks

Berghahn Books, 2006 - History - 303 pages

By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have established themselves in a number of the world's large regions and subcontinents. From Australia to South Asia, in Eastern and Western Europe, comparable parties and movements have positioned themselves in national parliaments and governments, with some considerable impact on state power. In contrast to right-wing extremist parties in the past, these recent movements mostly operate within legal parliamentary channels, using essentialized notions of local culture to mobilize against real and alleged threats to local identities of status, gender, religion, nationhood and ethnicity.

Prompted by this near-simultaneous rise to political influence of more than a dozen apparently similar parties across Western Europe, this collection offers a range of European case studies with selected global examples, such as the Front National, the late Pim Fortuyn, India and the BJP, and Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party in Australia. It takes up the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by this phenomenon and asks what distinctive contributions anthropology might make to its study.

Contents

• Chapter 1: 29
• Chapter 2: 50
• Chapter 3: 69
• Chapter 4: 92
• Chapter 5: 107
• On: 125
• Being the Natives Friend Does Not Make You the: 138
• Neonationalism or Neolocalism? Integralist Political: 162
• Regarding the Front National: 177
• Occupying the Available Space: 218
• A Comparative Counterpoint: 237
• Hansonism: 248
• Afterthoughts Ulf Hannerz: 271
• Notes on Contributors: 283
• Name Index: 297

About the author

Andre Gingrich is Full Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Recent publications include Anthropology, by Comparison (co-edited with Richard G. Fox, 2002) and One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology: The Halle lectures (co-authored with Frederik Barth, Robert Parkin and Sydel Silverman, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). Marcus Banks (1960-2020) was Professor of Visual Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and author of Organizing Jainism in India and England (Clarendon Press, 1992); Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions (Routledge, 1996) and Visual Methods in Social Research (Sage, 2001), as well as numerous journal articles and book contributions.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond: Perspectives from Social Anthropology; Berghahn Series; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series; Volume 0 of No Series Linked
• Editors: André Gingrich, Marcus Banks
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2006
• ISBN: 1845451899, 9781845451899
• Length: 303 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / General; Political Science / General; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism; Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy; Political Science / World / European; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science / Customs & Traditions; Social Science / Methodology