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Disjuncture in Ethnicity: Negotiating Circassian Identity in Jordan, Turkey and the Caucasus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Seteney Shami
Seteney Shami*
Affiliation:
Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
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Theorizing about nationalism must now incorporate phenomena brought about by the break-up of the Soviet Union, the disintegration of formerly socialist states and the emergence of so-called “ethno-nationalisms”. Previously, nationalism was mostly addressed in terms of modernization, nation-building and post-colonialism. In these interpretations, the presence of a modernizing state was a given, although the success or failure of these states in mobilizing the loyalties of their populations was seen to vary. What is now troubling to the older paradigms is how to interpret the phenomenon of nationalism sans state, or at least in the absence of the political, economic, ideological construct of the nation-state.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 12 , Spring 1995 , pp. 79 - 95
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1995

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