 |
 |
Statehood Beyond Ethnicity: A Comparative Study of Smaller States in Northern and Eastern Europe
| Location: | Sweden |
| Conference Date: | 2003-06-13 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2003-01-28 |
| Announcement ID: |
132556 |
|
|
The conference will tackle the issue of statehood and nationhood in the case of the smaller European countries. According to the prevailing political theory, a modern state came into being through the merging of two principles – the idea of state and the concept of nation. In order to challenge this view this conference will attempt to analyse non-ethnic statehood in two renditions in two different periods of history: as a historical phenomenon at the time of the emergence of the early modern state and as a historical tradition upon which the nation-builders from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries called. The conference thus suggests to take into consideration both the historical facts and historiographical constructs about statehood. While examining the arguments put forward for the existence of a state in the early modern age, the conference will seek to describe those essential elements which found their later appropriation in explicitly ethnic cultural and historical thinking about the older new nations. Yet, in parallel, it will also look at the arguments of the modern nationalists which echoed the non-ethnic past.
|
Didn't find what you're looking for?
Try our power search! |
Return to the top of this page
Return to announcements home
|
Send comments and questions to H-Net
Webstaff. H-Net reproduces announcements that have been submitted to us as a
free service to the academic community. If you are interested in an announcement
listed here, please contact the organizers or patrons directly. Though we strive
to provide accurate information, H-Net cannot accept responsibility for the text of
announcements appearing in this service. (Administration)
|
|
