Note:
- Scheduled dates for the meetings
are indicated in parentheses before each topic.
- Do not overlook
the deadlines (in
red) for emailing me
your short essays, your final project proposals, and your final projects (i.e.,
final essays).
1. (5 Oct.) Introductory Meeting.
2. (12 Oct.) Cultural Studies and Cultural
Identity
Mandatory reading:
Group I - Stuart Hall - "Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies", in S.
During (ed.), The Cultural Studies Reader 97-109 (or online
at http://www.icm.arts.cornell.edu/sites/icm.arts.cornell.edu/files/Hall%20-%20Cultural%20Studies.pdf).
Group II - Rogers Brubaker & Frederick Cooper, "Beyond Identity", Theory
and Society 29 (2000), 1-21.
3. (19 Oct.) Defining Nationalism - a) The theories: Romantic-idealist, instrumentalist,
contextualist, social-constructivism (“invented” nations) and the
typologies. b) The vocabulary: natio and nation, nation vs. ethnic
group, nationalism vs. national sentiment, nationalism vs. (national) ideology,
nationalism, nation and state, nationalism: good and bad, nationalism vs.
chauvinism/xenophobia, nationalism and history. Nationalism as a fuzzy
concept or a cluster of properties.
Mandatory reading:
Group I - Hutchinson, J. and
A.D.Smith, Nationalism, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994, pp.
34-46,55-62, 89-102; Hutchinson and Smith, Nationalism (Google Books)
Group II - B. Ștefănescu, Patrii din cuvinte (MS - fragm.), EUB, 2015 (Chapters
2, 3 - pages 37-89)
[foreign students will read the first part of B. Ştefănescu, “On
the Discrimination of Nationalisms”, in Krytyka no. 11/nov.
1999, Kiew,Ukraine (http://stefanescu-optional.blogspot.com/2009/10/published-in-krytyka-no.html)
- stop before the section Anarchist Nationalism]
Further reading:
•Hutchinson, J. and
A.D.Smith, Nationalism, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994, pp.
29-33, 47-54, 76-82, 113-131; Hutchinson and Smith, Nationalism (Google Books)
•Anderson, B., Imagined
Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London
and New York, Verso, 1990, Introduction and Chapter 3
(http://books.google.com/books?id=4mmoZFtCpuoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=imagined+communities#v=onepage&q=&f=false; or B. Anderson - Imagined Communities download Click
on the title (the link in blue) to download the PDF version of the book;
•A. Mungiu-Pippidi, Transilvania subiectivă, Humanitas, Bucureşti,
1999, pp. 25-65; (Chapter 2. "Nation and identity in Contemporary
Europe" in http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=DF97A4764F3A6218365B8CDA62591B57?doi=10.1.1.120.6344&rep=rep1&type=pdf,
pp. 12-35)
•Easthope, A., Englishness
and National Culture, Routledge, London, 1999;
•Snyder, L.L., The
Dynamics of Nationalism.Readings in Its Meaning and Development, D.van
Nostrand Co.Inc., Princeton etc., 1964;
• Ştefănescu,
B., “On the Discrimination of Nationalisms”, in Krytyka no.
11/nov. 1999, Kiew,Ukraine. (http://stefanescu-optional.blogspot.com/2009/10/published-in-krytyka-no.html)
4. (26 Oct.)
Nationalism as Discourse: Rhetorical Representations of National Identity - The Performativity of Nationalist Discourse. The
tropological types in historical discourse (H. White) and their relevance
for nationalist discourse.
Mandatory reading:
Group I - White, H., Metahistory. The
Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, The Johns Hopkins
University Press, Baltimore and London, 1973, pp. 1-42 (http://books.google.com/books?id=v_DqhVZkQ2EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=metahistory#v=onepage&q=&f=false);
or H. White - Metahistory download Click on the
title (the link in blue) to download the PDF version of the book;
Group II - B. Ștefănescu, Patrii din cuvinte (MS - fragm.), EUB, 2015 (Chapter
4) Foreign students will read pages 82-98 from B. Ștefănescu, Postcommunism/Postcolonialism: Siblings of
Subalternity - link.
Further reading:
•Marin, N., After
the Fall. Rhetoric in the Aftermath of Dissent in Post-communist Times,
Peter Lang, 2007;
•Boia, L., Istorie
și mit în conştiinţa românească, Humanitas, Bucureşti, 2000;
•Girardet, R., Mituri
şi mitologii politice, Ed.Institutului european, Bucureşti, 1997;
5. (2 Nov.)
Nationalism as a (Dis)course of Action: Political Representations of National
Identity - I. Radicalism – 1) Radical rhetoric and politics: organizing discourse and collectivities.
Political archetypes: Radicalism – the subjective-materialist vision
of social life.
Mandatory reading:
Group I - D. Miller, Enciclopedia
Blackwell a gîndirii politice, Humanitas, Bucureşti, 2000, pp. 601-610 -
articolele“radicalism”; “radicalii britanici si radicalism
filozofic”; The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought - download Click
on the title (blue link) to download the epub version - study entries
for Philosophic Radicalism; Radicalism; Radicals,
British;
and from L. S
Group II - A. Heywood, Political
ideologies. An Introduction, Macmillian Education LTD, 1992, pp. 21-31 ("Origins and development" and "The primacy of the individual") and 38-46 ("Classical liberalism")
and L. Snyder, The
Dynamics of Nationalism, Nostrand, Princeton, 1964, pp. 252-283;
Further reading:
•Ball, T. and R.
Dagger, Ideologii politice şi idealul democratic,
Polirom, Iaşi, 2000;
•Mungiu-Pippidi,
A., Doctrine politice. Concepte universale şi realităţi româneşti,
Polirom, Iaşi, 1998;
(http://www.scribd.com/doc/2588999/-Doctrine-Politice-coord-Alina-MugiuPippidi)
• Ştefănescu,
B., “On the Discrimination of Nationalisms”, in Krytyka no. 11/nov.
1999, Kiew,Ukraine.
6. (9 Nov.) Nationalism
as a (Dis)course of Action: Political Representations of National Identity - I.
Radicalism-2) Radical versions of national identity in England and abroad.
Mandatory reading:
Same as Week 5 (2 Nov.)
Further reading:
•Ball, T. and R.
Dagger, Ideologii politice şi idealul democratic,
Polirom, Iaşi, 2000;
•Mungiu-Pippidi,
A., Doctrine politice. Concepte universale şi realităţi româneşti,
Polirom, Iaşi, 1998;
• Ştefănescu,
B., “On the Discrimination of Nationalisms”, in Krytyka no. 11/nov.
1999, Kiew,Ukraine.
7. (16 Nov.)
Nationalism as a (Dis)course of Action: Political Representations of National
Identity - II. Liberalism – 1) Liberal Rhetoric and Politics. Political archetypes:
Liberalism – the objective-materialist vision of social life.
Mandatory reading:
Group I - T. Ball and R. Dagger, Political ideologies and the democratic ideal, Pearson, 2014, pp. 44-98 (Ideologii politice şi idealul democratic, Polirom, Iaşi, 2000, pp. 59-98);
Group II - D. Miller, Enciclopedia Blackwell a gîndirii politice, Humanitas, Bucureşti, 2000, pp. 429-438;
Further reading:
•Heywood, A., Political
ideologies. An Introduction, Macmillian Education LTD, 1992, pp. 15-53;
•Mungiu-Pippidi,
A., Doctrine politice. Concepte universale şi realităţi româneşti,
Polirom, Iaşi, 1998;
• Ştefănescu,
B., “On the Discrimination of Nationalisms”, in Krytyka no. 11/nov.
1999, Kiew,Ukraine.
8. (23 Nov.) In-class discussion of final project
proposals (first 30 min. of the meeting).
Nationalism as a
(Dis)course of Action: Political Representations of National Identity - II.
Liberalism – 2) Liberal versions of national identity in Englandand abroad.
Mandatory reading:
Revisit the excerpts that were already assigned for Week 5 (2 Nov.):
Ingrams, R., England.
An Anthology, Fontana, London, 1990, pp. 71-87; or
•Snyder, L., The
Dynamics of Nationalism, Nostrand, Princeton, 1964, pp. 2-9, 56-58, 76-103,
266-270;
Further reading:
•Ball, T. and R.
Dagger, Ideologii politice şi idealul democratic,
Polirom, Iaşi, 2000;
•Miller, D., Enciclopedia
Blackwell a gîndirii politice, Humanitas, Bucureşti, 2000;
•Mungiu-Pippidi,
A., Doctrine politice. Concepte universale şi realităţi româneşti,
Polirom, Iaşi, 1998;
• Ştefănescu,
B., “On the Discrimination of Nationalisms”, in Krytyka no. 11/nov.
1999, Kiew,Ukraine.
9. (7 Dec.) Deadline for Final Project Proposals
and for short presentations/essays to be submitted by email.
Nationalism as
(Dis)course of Action: Political Representations of National Identity - III.
Anarchism – 1) Anarchist rhetoric and politics. Political archetypes:
anarchism - the subjective-idealist vision of social life. The place of
anarchism in the 20th century.
Mandatory reading:
Group I - D. Miller, Enciclopedia
Blackwell a gîndirii politice, Humanitas, Bucureşti, 2000, pp. 30-36 (the
"Anarchism" entry from either the English or the Romanian version);
Group II - A. Heywood, Political
ideologies. An Introduction, Macmillian Education LTD, 1992, pp. 193-215;
Further reading:
•Ball, T. and R.
Dagger, Ideologii politice şi idealul democratic,
Polirom, Iaşi, 2000, pp. 31-34, 167-168;
•Mungiu-Pippidi,
A., Doctrine politice. Concepte universale şi realităţi româneşti,
Polirom, Iaşi, 1998;
• Ştefănescu,
B., “On the Discrimination of Nationalisms”, in Krytyka no. 11/nov.
1999, Kiew,Ukraine.
10. (14 Dec.)
Nationalism as (Dis)course of Action: Political Representations of National
Identity - III. Anarchism – 2) Anarchist versions of national identity in Englandand abroad.
Mandatory reading:
Revisit the excerpts that were already assigned for Week 5 (2 Nov.):
Ingrams, R., England. An Anthology, Fontana, London, 1990, pp. 71-87; or
•Snyder, L., The Dynamics of Nationalism, Nostrand, Princeton, 1964, pp. 2-9, 56-58, 76-103, 266-270;
Further reading:
• Ştefănescu,
B., “On the Discrimination of Nationalisms”, in Krytyka no. 11/nov.
1999, Kiew,Ukraine.
11. (4 Jan.)
Nationalism as (Dis)course of Action: Political Representations of National
Identity - IV. Conservatism – 1) Conservative rhetoric and politics. Political archetypes:
conservatism – the objective-idealist vision of social life. The
place of conservatism in the 20th century.
Mandatory reading:
Group I
Group II - D. Miller, Enciclopedia Blackwell a gîndirii politice, Humanitas, Bucureşti, 2000, pp. 128-134 (the "Conservat[or]ism" entry from either the English or the Romanian version);
Further reading:
•Heywood, A., Political
ideologies. An Introduction, Macmillian Education LTD, 1992;
•Mungiu-Pippidi,
A., Doctrine politice. Concepte universale şi realităţi româneşti,
Polirom, Iaşi, 1998;
• Ştefănescu,
B., “On the Discrimination of Nationalisms”, in Krytyka no. 11/nov.
1999, Kiew,Ukraine.
12. (11 Jan.)
Nationalism as (Dis)course of Action: Political Representations of National
Identity - IV. Conservatism – 2) Conservative versions of national identity in Englandand
abroad.
Mandatory reading:
Revisit the excerpts that were already assigned for Week 5 (2 Nov.):
Ingrams, R., England. An Anthology, Fontana, London, 1990, pp. 71-87; or
•Snyder, L., The Dynamics of Nationalism, Nostrand, Princeton, 1964, pp. 2-9, 56-58, 76-103, 266-270;
Further reading:
• Ştefănescu,
B., “On the Discrimination of Nationalisms”, in Krytyka no. 11/nov.
1999, Kiew,Ukraine.
DEADLINE FOR HANDING IN
FINAL PROJECTS (VIA E-MAIL): last day of classes in January.
