Reading list of
"History and Nationalism in Central Asia"
course
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Ablet Kamalov, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Institute of Oriental Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Gilbert, Paul. 1998. "History and Destiny" (Chapter 9) in The Philosophy of Nationalism. Westview Press. Pages 154-169.
Gellner, Ernest1983. Nations and Nationalism. Cornell University Press. Pages 1-7.
Hobsbawm, E.J. 1992. Introduction (Pages 1-13) in Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge University Press.
Smith, Anthony. 1997. "The Golden Age and National Renewal" (in) Myth and Nationhood edited by G. Hosking and G Schopflin. London: Hurst and Company Press. Pages 36-59.
Kamalov, Ablet. 2004. "Uighur Community in 1990’s Central Asia" (in) Diaspora in Central Asia and Caucasus edited by T. Atabaki and S. Mehendale. London-NY: Routledge Curzon Press. Pages 148-168.
Tomohiko, Uyama. 2002. From "Bulgharism" Through "Marrism" to Nationalist Myths: Discourses on the Tatar, the Chuvash and Bashkir Ethnogenesis. Sapporo, Japan: Tomus XIX. Pages 163-190.
Csirkes, Ference. "Defender of Three Empires: Armin Vambery and the Eastern Question". Pages 454-475.
Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
1. Nationalism and History
Elie Kedourie, Nationalism, Hutchinson University library, London, 1960, second revised edition 1961, pp. 74–9.
James G. Kellas, The Politics of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Second Edition, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1998, pp. 1–9, 43–64.
Anthony D. Smith, Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1995, 58–67.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso, London and New York, 1983, revised edition 1991, pp. 37–46.
On the Internet:
website is http://www.nationalismproject.org/index.htm. It includes a good many links, some of which will be useful.
The Nationalism Project
"What is Nationalism?", The Nationalism Project http://www.nationalismproject.org/what.htm
Ernest Gellner Defining "nation", The Nationalism Project, http://www.nationalismproject.org/what.htm
Benedict Anderson, "The Nation as Imagined Community", The Nationalism Project, http://www.nationalismproject.org/what/anderson.htm
Eric Hobsbawm Nations and Nationalism since 1780, The Nationalism Project, http://www.nationalismproject.org/what.htm
Michael Hechter, "Types of Nationalism", The Nationalism Project, http://www.nationalismproject.org/what.htm
Anthony D. Smith’s opening statement: "Nations and their pasts", The Warwick Debates, http://members.tripod.com/GellnerPage/Warwick.html
Ernest Gellner’s reply, The Warwick Debates, http://members.tripod.com/GellnerPage/Warwick2.html
2. Ethno- nationalism and territorial nationalism in Central Asia
Touraj atabaki, ‘Russification and Sovietisation of Central Asia’, In: Encyclopedia of modern Asia, Levinson, David and Karen Christensen, et al., Eds. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002.
Touraj Atabaki & Sanjyot Mehendale, ‘Trans-nationalism and Diaspora in Central Asia and the Caucasus’, Routledge Curzon Press, London & New York, 2004.
Bert G. Fragner, ‘Soviet nationalism’: An Ideological Legacy to the Independent Republics of Central Asia’, in: E.J. Zurcher and W. van Schendel (eds), Identity Politics in Central Asia and Muslim World, London, I.B. Tauris, 2001, pp. 13-33.
Geoffrey Wheeler, The Modern History of Soviet Central Asia London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964, pp. 31-47.
3. Who Writes Whose Past in Central Asia?
Douglas Northrop, Veiled Empire, Gender and Politics in Stalinist Central Asia Ithaca and London, Cornell University, 2004, pp. 69-101.
Touraj Atabaki, ‘Beyond Essentialism. Who writes whose Past in the Middle East and Central Asia?’, Amsterdam, Aksant, 2003.
- http://www.atabaki.net/Beyond%20Essentialism.pdf
Nick Megoran, ‘Theorizing gender, ethnicity and the nation-state in Central Asia’, Central Asia Survey, Vol. 18, No, 1, 1999, pp. 99-110.
A.Sarsembayev, ’"Imagined Communities: Kazak nationalism and Kazakification in the 1990s’, Central Asia Survey, Vol. 18, No, 3, 1999, pp. 319-346.
Anthony Hyman, ‘Turkestan and Pan-Turkism revisited’, Central Asia Survey, Vol. 16, No, 3, 1997, pp. 339-351.
Shahram Akbarzadeh, ‘The Political shape of Central Asia’, Central Asia Survey, Vol. 16, No, 4, 1997, pp. 517-542.
Shahram Akbarzadeh, ‘Nation-building in Uzbekistan’, Central Asia Survey, Vol. 15, No, 1, 1996, Pp. 23-32.
Ágnes Birtalan, ELTE University, Budapest
Mihály Dobrovits, Central Asian Studies, Miskolc University
Vincent Fourniau, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
Anuar Galiev, Academy of Labor and Social Relations, Almaty
Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Australia
Catherine Poujol, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris
Hunter, Shireen. 1996.Central Asia Since Independence (The Washington Papers ), Vo. 168. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishing. ISBN# 0275955397. Intro, pp. 1-39
Ro’I, Yaacov. 1995. "The Secularization of Islam and the USSR’s Muslim Areas" (in) Muslim Eurasia (The Cummings Center Series). Frank Cass Publishers. ISBN# 0714641421. Pp.5 –20.
Haghayeghi, Mehrdad. 1996. Islam and Politics in Central Asia. Palgrave Macmillan Publishing. ISBN# 0312164882. Ch. 6 ; pp.164-206
Eickelman, Dale. 1993. Russia’s Muslim Frontiers: New Directions in Cross Cultural Analysis (Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies). Indiana University Press. ISBN# 0253208238
- Malashenko, Alexei. Ch 4: "Islam Versus Communism: The Experience of Coexistence"
- Abduvakhitov, Abdujabar. Ch. 5: "Islamic Revivalism in Uzbekistan".
Gross, Jo-Ann. 1992. Introduction; "Approaches to the Probem of Identity Formation" (in) Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change. Duke University Press. ISBN# 0822311909.
Sabahi, Farian and Daniel Warner. 2004. The OSCE and The Multiple Chanllenges of Transition: The Caucasus and Central Asia. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN# 0754636062.
- Ghebali,Victor-Yves; "OSCE Regional Policy in Central Asia"; Rationale and Limits. Ch1; pp.3-12.