Beyond Nationalism and the Nation-State

İlker Cörüt is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Diversity at Potsdam University, Germany. He is interested in anthropology of the state and Turkish nationalism, nationalism studies, contemporary social theory, and the political economy of modern Turkish history and the Kurdish question. Joost Jongerden is Associate Professor Do-it-Yourself development at the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and Project Professor at the Asian Platform for Global Sustainability & Transcultural Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. Having a geographical focus on the rural, Turkey and Kurdistan, his research centers on the question of how people create and maintain a livable life under conditions of precarity.

Radical Approaches to Nation: An Introduction Part I: Collective Action, Self-Rule, and Autonomy 1. A Democratic Nation: The Kurdistan Workers Party PKK and the Idea of Nation Beyond the State 2. Hikmet Kıvılcımlı, “History Thesis”, and Nation-Form: National Revolutionaries as Modern Barbarians? 3. Dreams and Realities: Do-It-Yourself (Autonomic) Reincorporation by Ex-Insurgents in Colombia Part II: Nation, Pueblo, Narod 4. Venezuela: Revolutionary Bolivarianism Against the Colonial Nation-State 5. Which Nation is this? Brexit and the not-so-United Kingdom 6. Narod as a Radical Political Invention: The Outset of Intellectual Struggles Over the Nation in the Nineteenth Century Russia Part III: Anti-Colonial Nation 7. The Arab Nation, the Chinese Model, and Theories of Self-Reliant Development 8. Revolution and Nation Building in Burkina Faso 9. José Carlos Mariátegui and Politics: Reform, Revolution, and Populism