Global Perspectives on Nationalism

Debajyoti Biswas is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English at Bodoland University, India. His research interests include Anglophone Fiction from northeast India, issues of identity and nationalism, Postcolonial Theory, and Environmental Humanities. Panos Eliopoulos is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina, Greece. He received the Orlyk Award from the National Dragomanov University of Kiev, Ukraine, for his contribution to world philosophical research, as well as the Award of Moral and Political Sciences from the Academy of Athens, Greece. His research focuses on Moral and Political Philosophy. John C. Ryan is Adjunct Associate Professor at Southern Cross University, Australia, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Institute at Notre Dame University, Australia. His research focuses on Aboriginal Australian literature, Southeast Asian ecocriticism, the environmental humanities, ecopoetics, and critical plant studies.

1. Introduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Nationalism Section I: Ethnicity, Ideology, and Narration 2. "Liberal Nationalism": A Theoretical Oxymoron or an Empirical Way Forward? 3. Nation as War Narration: The Revolutionary Epics and its Ethnicity 4. A Century After the Birth of Greater Lebanon (1920–2020): A Brief Review Section II: Religion, Identity, and Heritage 5. Ethnic Identities and the ‘Contested’ Idea of a Nepal State 6. The Nations and Its Discontents: The Structural Face of Turkish Nationalism 7. Constellation, Not Sequencing Carries the Truth: Olga Tokarczuk’s Nomadic Flight from Homogenous National Identity Section III: Linguistics, Tradition, and Modernism 8. Bilingualism in Bangladeshi Education and the Question of National Identity 9. Deconstructing Assamese Nationalism Vis-à-vis Indian Nationalism 10. Nationalism and Invention of Tradition in Argentinian Folk Narrative Archives: From the 1921 Folk Survey to the Collections of the 21st Century Section IV: Music, Lyricism, and Poetics 11. Scotland Hymns for His Identity: The National Anthem in Progress 12. Of Poetry and Nationalism: Articulating Charles Bernstein’s Poetics of the Americas and the Democratic Space of Poetry 13. Nationhood and Sexual Dissidence: From Walt Whitman’s Adhesive Camerados to Larry Kramer’s De-kiked Faggots 14. Racial Identity and the American Nation in Langston Hughes’ Short Story "Home" Section V: Ecology, Environment, and Non-Human Lives 15. "Dressed in Native Trees": Plants as Figures of Anti-National Resistance in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Poetry 16. Local Wisdom and Sustainable Praxis in the Anthropocene: The Green Nationalism of the Sedulur Sikep Community of Central Java, Indonesia 17. China’s Ecological Civilisation: A National Narrative with Global Ambitions 18. Ethnonationalism and Econationalism in the Age of Carbon Democracy: Ruud Elmendorp’s Documentary Film Ken Saro Wiwa: All For My People 19. The Splintered Roots of ‘Heimat’: On the ‘German’ Oak’s Arboreal Memory