Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building. Although relative latecomers on the international scene, the Central Asian states see themselves as globalized, and yet in spite of - or perhaps precisely because of - this, they hold a very classical vision of the nation-state, rejecting the abolition of boundaries and the theory of the 'death of the nation'. Their unabashed celebration of very classical nationhoods built on post-modern premises challenges the Western view of nationalism as a dying ideology that ought to have been transcended by post-national cosmopolitanism.
ISBN: | 9781800080140 |
Publisher: | UCL Press |
Imprint: | UCL Press |
Published date: | 01 Jul 2021 |
DEWEY: | 327.58 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 274 |
Weight: | 414g |
Height: | 155mm |
Width: | 234mm |
Spine width: | 18mm |