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Nationalism and Outsiders in the Middle East

Tags: classes

Memory

  • Does memory provide realness to a specific identity?
  • Much of the historiography is written by Israeli authors
  • The present is interpreted through the past
  • Arab nationalis, palestinian nationalism, arab-palestinian nationalism, and the historical realities of this

Marxist and Modernist Views of Nationalism:

Modernist

  • Nations and nationalism are products of modernity

Marxist

  • Nations and nationalism are products of capitalism
    • A bourgeoise is required

Instrumentalism

  • Since ethnicity and nationalism are results of circumstance
    • Can be wielded and used by elites
    • In invoking this, they are evoked and given form