Mark Luccarelli & Rosario Forlenza 
Bringing the Nation Back In [EPUB ebook] 
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and the Struggle to Define a New Politics

Bringing the Nation Back In takes as its starting point a series of developments that shaped politics in the United States and Europe over the past thirty years: the end of the Cold War, the rise of financial and economic globalization, the creation of the European Union, and the development of the postnational. This book contends we are now witnessing a break with the post-1945 world order and with modern politics. Two competing ideas have arisen—global cosmopolitanism and populist nationalism. Contributors argue this polarization of social ethos between cosmopolitanism and nationalism is a sign of a deeper political crisis, which they explore from different perspectives. Rather than taking sides, the aim is to diagnose the origins of the current impasse and to ‚bring the nation back in‘ by expanding what we mean by ’nation‘ and national identity and by respecting the localizing processes that have led to national traditions and struggles.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments



1. On the Persistence and Difficulties of Political Community: Existential Roots and Pragmatic Outcomes of National Awareness


Mark Luccarelli



Part I. Reassertions of the National



2. Solidarity or Human Rights? National Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century


Steven Colatrella



3. The Political Landscape and the Nation-State: Arendtian Commons and the American Revolution


Ole Sneltvedt



4. The Nation in the Universal Language of Eco-globalism


Werner Bigell



Part II: Contextualizing the National: Constraints and Possibilities



5. Belonging: Population Genetics, National Imaginaries, and the Making of European Genes


Venla Oikkonen



6. National Time, Literary Form, and Exclusion: The United States in the 1920s


Bruce Barnhart



7. Taking the Boundaries with You: Italy and the National in the Work of Luigi Di Ruscio, an Italian Migrant Writer in Norway


Sergio Sabbatini



8. Monuments Carved in Film: Developing Civic Awareness through the Memory of Fallen Anti-Mafia Activists


Stefano Adamo



Conclusion: Reframing the National?



9. Nation as Home: Anthropological Foundations and Human Needs


Rosario Forlenza



Contributors

Über den Autor

Mark Luccarelli is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. His books include
The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space: Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States, 1682–1865.
Rosario Forlenza is Fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University. He is the author of
On the Edge of Democracy: Italy, 1943–1948.
Steven Colatrella is Adjunct Professor of International Political Theory at the University of Padua, Italy, and Adjunct Professor of Government and Sociology at the University of Maryland University College. He is the author of
Workers of the World: African and Asian Migrants in Italy in the 1990s.