Bringing the Nation Back In

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.

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