Type of Credit: Elective
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Important notice:
The course explores the interaction between religion and ethnic identities and their impact on nationalism, especially in non-western societies. It embraces critical questions of identity and citizenship, inclusion and exclusion, emotive attachments, local/global linkages, conflicts and violence. How do ethnicity and religion influence political interaction? How do ethnic and religious identities aggravate conflict and/or strengthen cooperation? The course examines case studies illustrating the junctures of ethnic, religion and national identities through the exploration of the politics of belonging and citizenship. It also investigates how relevant dimensions such as sacralization and symbolic legitimation may lead to violence. The course is divided into two parts. The first part examines key concepts of ethnicity, religion, identity, nation, nationalism, as well as exploring the explanations of the emergence of nationalism. The second part delves into the impact of nationalism on the sense of belonging and political identities, religious nationalism, fundamentalism, by examining case studies from countries such as Iran, Turkey, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, and India. On Week 11 we will watch the film “Argo” (2012, Director: Ben Affleck), which was one of the most high profile film in 2012, about the 1979 rescue of six U.S. State Department employees from the siege at the American embassy in Tehran, Iran. On Week 12, we will watch the award-winning documentary “India’s Saffran Brigade” (2022, Filmmaker: Shehzaad Hameed Ahmad) about the rise of India’s nationalism. |
能力項目說明
After completing the course, students will:
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課程內容與指定閱讀 Content and Reading Assignment |
教學活動與作業 Teaching Activities and Homework |
學習投入時間 Student workload expectation |
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Introduction 2/17 |
Syllabus and Course Regulations
Student chooses the 6 (six) weeks in which they want to submit their individual essays. |
NO HOMEWORK |
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2 |
Defining Ethnicity, Nation and Nationalism 2/24 |
Required Readings Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Gellner, Ernest. 2006. Nations and Nationalism, pp.1-7. Additional Chandra, Kanchan. 2006. "What is ethnic identity and does it matter?" Annual Review of Political Science 9: 397-424. |
Essay (for those who choose to submit) |
3 |
3 |
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3 |
Deeper into Ethnicity and Nationalism 3/3 |
Required Readings Brubaker, Rogers. 2004. “’Civic’ and ‘ethnic’ nationalism”, in id., Ethnicity without Groups. Harvard: Harvard University Press. Chapter 6, pp. 132-146 Hutchinson, John and Anthony D. Smith (eds.). 1994. Nationalism. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, Introduction, pp. 3-5 Additional Fearon, James, and David D. Laitin, 2000, "Ordinary language and external validity: Specifying concepts in the study of ethnicity."
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Essay (for those who choose to submit) |
3 |
3 |
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4 |
Primordialism and Constructivism 3/10 |
Required Readings Maxwell, A. (2020) Primordialism for Scholars Who Ought to Know Better: Anthony D. Smith’s Critique of Modernization Theory. Nationalities Papers, 48(5): 826-842. Bayar, Murat. (2009) "Reconsidering primordialism: an alternative approach to the study of ethnicity." Ethnic and racial studies 32.9: 1639-1657. Additional Wang, Chia-Chou (2018) Primordialism, Instrumentalism, Constructivism: Factors Influencing Taiwanese People’s Regime Acceptance of Mainland China’s Government, Journal of Contemporary China, 27:109, 137-150
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Essay (for those who choose to submit) |
3 |
3 |
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5 |
Ethnic and Communal Violence 3/17 |
Required Readings
Brubaker, Rogers and David D. Laitin. 1998. "Ethnic and Nationalist Violence." Annual Review of Sociology 24:423-52 Additional Horowitz, Donald. 1985. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. 21-54 |
Essay (for those who choose to submit) |
3 |
3 |
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6 |
Religious Nationalism 3/24 |
Required Readings Juergensmeyer, Mark. (2010) "The global rise of religious nationalism." Australian Journal of International Affairs 64.3: 262-273. Grzymala-Busse, Anna. (2019). Religious nationalism and religious influence. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics Additional Brubaker, Rogers. (2012). Religion and nationalism: Four approaches. Nations and nationalism, 18(1), 2-20.
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Essay (for those who choose to submit) |
3 |
3 |
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7 |
Religious Nationalism and Fundamentalism 3/31 |
Required Readings Emerson, Michael O., and David Hartman. (2006) "The rise of religious fundamentalism." Annual review of Sociology (2006): 127-144. Friedland, Roger. "Religious nationalism and the problem of collective representation." Annual Review of Sociology (2001): 125-152. Additional Juergensmeyer, Mark (1993) Why religious nationalists are not fundamentalists, Religion, 23:1, 85-92
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Essay (for those who choose to submit) |
3 |
3 |
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8 |
Religion, Nationalism and Ethnicity 4/7 |
Required Readings Mitchell, Claire (2006). The Religious Content of Ethnic Identities. Sociology, 40(6), 1135–1152 Gorski, Philip S., and Gülay Türkmen-Dervişoğlu. "Religion, nationalism, and violence: An integrated approach." Annual Review of Sociology 39 (2013): 193-210. Additional Brubaker, Rogers. (2015), "Religious dimensions of political conflict and violence." Sociological Theory 33.1: 1-19.
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Essay (for those who choose to submit) |
3 |
3 |
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9 |
Midterm Week 4/14 |
NO CLASS |
NO CLASS |
NO CLASS |
NO CLASS |
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10 |
Nationalism and Authoritarianism: Comparing Iran and Turkey 4/21
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Required Readings Marashi, Afshin. "Paradigms of Iranian Nationalism: History, Theory, and Historiography." Rethinking Iranian nationalism and modernity. University of Texas Press, 2021. 3-24. Skocpol, Theda. "Rentier state and Shi'a Islam in the Iranian revolution." Theory and society 11.3 (1982): 265-283. Findley, Carter Vaughn. "Turkey, Islam, nationalism, and modernity." Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity. Yale University Press, 2010. Additional Matin-Asgari, Afshin. "The Berlin circle: Iranian nationalism meets German countermodernity." Rethinking Iranian nationalism and modernity. University of Texas Press, 2021. 49-66.
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Essay (for those who choose to submit) |
3 |
3 |
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11 |
FILM WEEK 4/28 |
We are watching Argo (2012) Director: Ben Affleck. One of the most high-profile film in 2012, Argo tells the story of six U.S. State Department employees who managed to escape the 1979 siege at the American embassy in Tehran (which resulted in the 444-day hostage saga), but who were still trapped in Iran.
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No Homework |
3 |
3 |
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12 |
Ethnoreligious conflict and religious nationalism in Indonesia 5/5 |
Required Readings Menchik, J. (2014). Productive intolerance: Godly nationalism in Indonesia. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 56(3), 591–621 Simandjuntak, Deasy (2021) "Disciplining the Accepted and Amputating the Deviants: Religious Nationalism and Segregated Citizenship in Indonesia." Asian Journal of Law and Society 8.1: 88-107
Additional Aspinall, Edward (2008) Ethnic and religious violence in Indonesia: a review essay, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 62(4): 558-572
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Essay (for those who choose to submit) |
3 |
3 |
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13 |
Ethnoreligious and religious nationalism in Myanmar and Thailand 5/12 |
Required Readings Kyaw, Nyi Nyi. "The role of myth in anti-muslim buddhist nationalism in Myanmar." Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, 2020. 197-226. Tonsakulrungruang, Khemthong. "The Revival of Buddhist Nationalism in Thailand and Its Adverse Impact on Religious Freedom." Asian Journal of Law and Society 8.1 (2021): 72-87. Additional Chowdhury, Arnab Roy (2020) An ‘un-imagined community’: the entangled genealogy of an exclusivist nationalism in Myanmar and the Rohingya refugee crisis, Social Identities, 26:5, 590-607 |
Essay (for those who choose to submit) |
3 |
3 |
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14 |
The rise of Hindu Nationalism in India Documentary Film Week 5/19 |
We will watch Documentary Film “India’s Saffron Brigade” (2022) Filmmaker: Shehzad Hameed Ahmad), winner at London’s Association for International Broadcasting Awards 2022. Required Readings Van der Veer, P. (2021). Minority Rights and Hindu Nationalism in India. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 8(1), 44-55 Additional Chacko, Priya. (2019). Marketizing Hindutva: The state, society, and markets in Hindu nationalism. Modern Asian Studies, 53(2), 377-410 |
Essay (for those who choose to submit) |
3 |
3 |
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15 |
Comparative Religious Nationalism in India and Israel 5/26 |
Required Readings Abiri, Gilad. (2021). Intimate Rivals: The Freedom of Religious Nationalism. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 8(1), 19-43
Additional Chiriyankandath, James. "Religious nationalism and foreign policy: India and Israel compared." (2007): 1-18.
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Essay (for those who choose to submit) |
3 |
3 |
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Conclusion: The complex relations between ethnicity, religion and nationalism. 6/2 |
Required Smith, Anthony D. "Culture, community and territory: the politics of ethnicity and nationalism." International Affairs 72.3 (1996): 445-458. Juergensmeyer, Mark. "Religious nationalism in a global world." Religions 10.2 (2019): 97. |
Essay (for those who chose to submit) |
3 |
0 |
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17 |
Final Presentation 6/9 |
Student Presentation |
NO HOMEWORK |
3 |
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18 |
Deadline for Final Paper)
6/16 |
NO CLASS |
NO HOMEWORK |
3 |
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This course uses various book chapters and journal articles. Please refer to the class schedule below. |