國家形成與文化建構

Nation-State Formation as Cultural Construction

學期

108-1

學分

3 學分

當期課號

5873

永久課號

ICS5219

開課單位

社會與文化研究所

授課教師

陳奕麟

類別

選修

上課時間表

節	週二
5 13:20–14:10	國家形成與文化建構 F106A 3 節連堂
6 14:20–15:10
7 15:30–16:20

* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列

概述

This course attempts to develop certain perspectives with regard to the sociocultural study of the modern nation-state while at the same time noting their ramifications for a reassessment of prevailing concepts of ethnicity and identity and suggesting possible avenues for future empirical research. Both nationalism and the state have been intense topics of discussion in the social scientific literature. While interdisciplinary in approach, this course intends to focus mainly on the cultural and ethnic dimensions of the nation-state rather than its politico-institutional features per se, insofar as the latter impinges on the former. It will also be historically sensitive and cross-cultural in scope, as a means of differentiating the generalities and specificities of nation-state formation. Due to the expanding nature of the literature, it may be necessary to substitute newer readings and topics as they become available and relevant.

教學方式

The first week will be devoted to an overview of the problematic followed by a description of subsequent topics of discussion. Each topic will roughly cover a week's work, although this may in practice vary according to the respective length and density of the readings themselves. This will leave about four weeks for oral presentation of research papers. Presentations may take any of these forms: a) literature review of a specialized topic of interest or b) detailed, critical commentary on a monograph not explicitly discussed in class lectures. Oral presentations should ideally serve as proposals or outlines for a larger term paper to be turned in at the conclusion of the course. The first half of each class session will be devoted to a short presentation by the lecturer and followed by open discussion. The class lecture will revolve closely around assigned syllabus readings. I expect also that people will participate actively in class discussions by referring to recommended and other related readings to supplement and challenge points already raised. Oral and written performance will thus contribute to the overall course marks. [* indicates required reading; + indicates recommended reading]

週次計畫

週次	主題
第 1 週	General Theoretical Paradigms and Literature Reviews Renan, E., 1990, What is a Nation? In H.K. Bhabha ed., Nation and Narration. Benjamin, G., 2015, The Unseen Presence: A Theory of the Nation-State and Its Mystifications, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 16(4). +Breuilly, J., 1996, Approaches to Nationalism, in G. Balakrishnan ed., Mapping the Nation. Segal, D., 1988, Nationalism, Comparatively Speaking, Journal of Historical Sociology 1(3).
第 2 週	The Nation as "Cultural Revolution" *Anderson, B., 1993, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, 2nd edition. +Goswami, M., 2002, Rethinking the Modular Nation Form: Toward a Sociohistorical Conception of Nationalism, Comparative Studies in Society and History 44(4). +Cheah, P. and J. Culler eds., 2003, Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson, Chapter 1. Nairn, T., 1981, The Modern Janus, in The Breakup of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism, 2nd edition, Ch.9. Rafael, V.L., 1990, Nationalism, Imagery and the Filipino Intelligentsia in the 19th Century, Critical Inquiry 16(3).
第 3 週	The State as "Cultural Revolution" Abrams, P., 1988, Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State, Journal of Historical Sociology 1(1). Corrigan, P. and D. Sayer, 1991, The Great Arch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution, 2nd edition. +Steinmetz, G., 1999, Introduction to Culture and the State, in State/Culture: State-formation after the Cultural Turn. Corrigan, P. and D. Sayer, 1987, From ‘The Body Politic’ to ‘The National Interest’: English State Formation in Comparative and Historical Perspective (An Argument Concerning Politically Organized Subjection). (manuscript)
第 4 週	The Crisis of Culture in the Emergence of the Nation-State Gellner, E., 1983, Nations and Nationalism, Chs. 1-4. [國族與國族主義,聯經,2000。] Balibar, E., 1991, The Nation Form: History and Ideology, in E. Balibar and I. Wallerstein, Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities. +James, P., 2000, The Nation as an Abstract Community, in Nation Formation, Ch.1. +Herzfeld, M., 1997, Of Definitions and Boundaries: The Status of Culture in the Culture of the State, in Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State, Ch.2. Fox, R.G. ed., 1990, Nationalist Ideologies and the Production of National Cultures. Winichakul, Thongchai, 1994, Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation. Elden, Stuart, 2013, The Birth of Territory.
第 5 週	The Problem of Ethnicity in the Integration of National Cultures Geertz, C., 1963, The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States, in Old Societies and New States. Hobsbawm, E.J., 1992, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth Reality. +Thom, M., 1990, Tribes within Nations: The Ancient Germans and the History of Modern France, in H.K. Bhabha ed., Nation and Narration. +Hroch, M., 1996, From National Movement to the Fully-formed Nation: The Nation-building Process in Europe, in Mapping the Nation. Heusch, L. de, 2000, L’Ethnie: The Vicissitudes of a Concept, Social Anthropology 8(2). Mislivetz, F., 1991, The Unfinished Revolutions of 1989: The Decline of the Nation-State? Social Research 58(4).
第 6 週	Colonialism and the Modernity of State Power Cohn, B.S. and N.B. Dirks, 1988, Beyond the Fringe: the Nation-State, Colonialism and the Technologies of Power, Journal of Historical Sociology 1(2). Thomas, N., 1990, Sanitation and Seeing: The Creation of State Power in Early Colonial Fiji, Comparative Studies in Society and History 32(1). +Cohn, B.S., 1984, The Census, Social Structure and Objectification in South Asia, Folk 26. +Krishnan, K., 2000, Nation and Empire: English and British National Identity in Comparative Perspective, Theory and Society 29. Cooper, F. and A.L. Stoler, 1989, Tensions of Empire: Colonial Control and Visions of Rule, American Ethnologist 16(4). Comaroff, J. and J., 1989, The Colonization of Consciousness in South Africa, Economy and Society 18(3). Spencer, J., 1990, Writing Within: Anthropology, Nationalism and Culture in Sri Lanka, Current Anthropology 31(3).
第 7 週	The Invention of Tradition and Politics of Kastom as Crisis of Modernity Hobsbawm, E.J., and T.O. Ranger eds., 1983, The Invention of Tradition《被發明的傳統》 Keesing, K.M. and R. Tonkinson eds., 1982, Reinventing Traditional Culture: The Politics of Kastom in Island Melanesia, Mankind 13(4). +Hanson, A., 1989, The Making of the Maori: Culture Invention and Its Logic, American Anthropologist 91(4). +Waldron, A., 1992, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth, Part III Bowen, J.R., 1986, On the Political Construction of Tradition: Gotong Royong in Indonesia, Journal of Asian Studies 45(3). Linnekin, J., 1983, Defining Traditions: Variations on the Hawaiian Identity, American Ethnologist 10.
第 8 週	The Writing of Ideology in the Construction of State Authority *Jameson, F., 1981, On Interpretation, in The Political Unconscious, Chapter 1. +Gramsci, A., 1992, The State and Civil Society, in Prison Notebooks. +Althusser, L., 1971, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus, in Lenin and Philosophy. +Foucault, M., 1991, Politics and the Study of Discourse, in G. Burchell et al eds., The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. Dirks, N.B., 1990, History as a Sign of the Modern, Public Culture 2(2). Linke, U., 1990, Folklore, Anthropology and the Government of Social Life, Comparative Studies in Society and History 32(1).
第 9 週	Nations in Search of Cultures Wright, P., 1985, On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain. Herzfeld, M., 1982, Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology and the Making of Modern Greece. +Chen, Xiaomei, 1992, Occidentalism as Counterdiscourse: 'He Shang' in Post-Mao China, Critical Inquiry 18. +Shamsul A.B., 1996, Nations-of-Intent in Malaysia, in S. Tonnesson and H. Antloev eds., Asian Forms of the Nation. Linnekin, J., 1990, The Politics of Culture in the Pacific, in J. Linnekin and L. Poyer eds., Cultural Identity and Ethnicity in the Pacific. Thion, S., 1988, Remodeling Broken Images: Manipulation of Identities Towards and Beyond the Nation, An Asian Perspective, in Ethnicities and Nations.
第 10 週	Cultures in Search of Nations Kapferer, B., 1989, “Nationalist Ideology and a Comparative Anthropology”, Ethnos 54(3-4). Handler, R., 1988, Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec. +Gladney, D.C., 1991, Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic, Ch. 1. +Grillo, R.D., 1980, Basques, Anti-Basques and the Moral Community, in 'Nation' and 'State' in Europe: Anthropological Perspectives. Rata, E., 2001, The Indigenization of Ethnicity, in R. Prazniak and A. Dirlik eds., Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization. Ree, J., 1991, Internationality: Britain and the Idea of National Identity, Culture and History 9-10.
第 11 週	Cultural Commoditization and Culture Industries Benjamin, W., 1968, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936), in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections《機械複製時代的藝術作品》. Horkheimer, M. and T.W. Adorno, 1989, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” (1944), in Dialectic of Enlightenment. +Hesmondhalgh, D., 2002, The Cultural Industries《文化產業分析》, Chapter 2. +Ivy, M., 1995, Discourses of the Vanishing, Itineraries of Knowledge: Trans-figuring Japan. Leong Wai-teng, 1989, Culture and the State: Manufacturing Traditions for Tourism, Critical Studies in Mass Communication 6(4). Crouch, D. ed. 1999, Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge.
第 12 週	The Global Cultural Economy and Postmodern Diasporas Appadurai, A., 1990, Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy, Public Culture 2(2). Schiller, N. et al, 1992, Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity and Nationalism Reconsidered. +Bhabha, H.K., 1990, DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation, in Nation and Narration. +Gupta, A., 1992, The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism, Cultural Anthropology 7(1). Featherstone, M. ed., 1990, Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity. Lavie, S. and T. Swedenberg eds., 1999, Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity.
第 13 週	Case Study: Nationalism as Post-Colonialist Heritage Chatterjee, P., 1993, The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Ahmad, A., 1992, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. +Lazarus, N., 1999, Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World. Comaroff, J. and J., 1991, Of Revelation and Revolution, vol.1.
第 14 週	Case Study: Peoplehood, Ideology and National Culture Weber, E., 1976, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914. Verdery, K., 1991, National Ideology under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu’s Romania. +Borneman, J., 1992, Belonging in the Two Berlins: Kin, State, Nation. Dominguez, V.R., 1989, People as Subject, People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel.
第 15 週	Case Study: The Politics of Ethnic Separatism Hechter, M., 1975, Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966. Kapferer, B., 1988, Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia. +Hroch, M., 1985, Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe. Tambiah, S.J., 1986, Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy.
第 16 週	Case Study: Community in National and Post-national Perspective James, P., 1997, Nation Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract Community. Castells, M., 1997, The Power of Identity. +Billig, M., 1995, Banal Nationalism. Elias, N., 1982, Power and Civility.