November 19-23, 2008
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
PANEL PROPOSAL:
Including Nationalist-Minorites in Exclusive Nationalist-Discourse:
some new theoretical considerations for ethno-nationalism and anthropology
Our panel proposes to challenge long-held assumptions of nationalism
theory by examining the significance of everyday nationalism in
relation to ethno-nationalist minorities and the hegemonic discourses
of nation-states. In particular we are interested in addressing issues
of sovereignty, ownership, and power relations from emerging concerns
about exclusive dialogue-regimes over ethno-nationalist minorities in
a post-9/11 world. We maintain prevalent theoretical-perceptions about
states still assumes an elitist perspective, one which is predominated
and controlled by so-called legitimate nation-states with little
regard to minority groups aspiring for statehood and recognition. Our
contention is that supporters of failed nationalist-movements and
their rights are continually overlooked in the media and by dominant
state-actors in the West and East. As scholars we wish to collaborate
with under-represented minority-groups at an interdisciplinary level
to address these concerns and express our theoretical doubts about
prevailing models (from the likes of Anderson, Gellner, Hobsbawm &
Ranger, Anthony Smith, and others). Furthermore, we wish to discuss
and acknowledge how nationalism theorizing needs revisiting by
examining its everyday components, especially why notions of imagined
wholeness are superceded by fragmentary politics, local belongingness,
and other socio-cultural formations of nationalist sentiment, new
media-technologies, and varying forms of material consumption.
Organizer: J. P. Linstroth
Please Email: linstrot@nova.edu
If you are interested in participating, please email me and indicate
whether or not you will be able to submit an abstract by April 1st,
2008, which is the American Anthropological Association (AAA) deadline
for the upcoming conference in San Francisco at the end of November in
2008.
Please also indicate the following, whether you wish to:
• Participate by giving a paper
• Participate as a discussant
• Participate as Chair
