Political Science and International Relations ( English )

Lesson plan / NATIONS AND NATIONALISM

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 4.0
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Programme Elective
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? S
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course This course first looks at theories of nationalism and then considers Turkish case in the light of these theories. We will first introduce a historical overview of the concept of nationalism and then introduce modern theories of nationalism and finally investigate the Turkish case with regard to these theories.
Course Content Theories of nationalism; nations and nationalism in historical perspective; nationalism and State; colonialism, postcolonialism and nationalism.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction & General Description of Course
2What is a Nation? What is Nationalism? Why Nationalism?
3Historical Overview
4Cultural Approaches to Nationalism I: Primordialism
5Cultural Approaches to Nationalism II: Ethno-Symbolism and the study of nationalism The Construction of Nationhood Case of Scotland
6Modernism
7Nationalism and Modernity Imagined Communities Case of Yugoslavia
8Nationalism and the State
9Mid-Term
10Differentiating Nationalism-Nationalism, Racism, Ethnicity
11National Self-determination
12İmmigration and Nationalism
13Case: Turkey
14Overview

Resources

Nations and Nationalism: A Reader ed. By Philip Spencer© 2005 Edinburgh University Press
Theories of Nationalism, 2nd Edition Umut Ozkirimli© 2010 Palgrave Macmillan, 256 pages
Ayşe Kadıoğlu and Fuat Keyman Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2011)