na INLIS000000000002940 20221020015349 0010-0520002940 221020 | | eng 9780415 411875 ind 320.5 320.5 CAL n Calhoun, Craig Nations Matter : Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream / Craig Calhoun London : Routledge, 2007 ix, 238p.; 24 cm. ; 24 cm. This book argues that pursuing a purely postnational politics is premature at best and possibly dangerous. Despite all the evils perpetrated in its name, nationalism is not a mere moral mistake. It is crucial to most existing democracy. It provides solidarity vital to projects of social inclusion and distributive justice. It offers potential for integration across lines of ethnic and other differences. It supports investment in public institutions rather than privatization. Nations are also bases for contesting neoliberal versions of globalization that threaten social institutions built through generations of struggle. Rather than wishing nationalism away, it is important to transform it. One key is to distinguish the ideology of nationalism as fixed and inherited identity from the development of public projects that continually remake the terms of national integration. Standard concepts like "civic" vs. "ethnic" nationalism can get in the way unless they are critically re-examined - as in important chapter in this book does. Nationalism Socialogy Political Science Indeks : p.231 - 238 p.211 - 230 10502/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10503/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10503/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10502/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10502/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10503/MKRI-P/XI-2008