Boundaries of the Nation-State and the Lure of the Islamic Community in Turkey

In this paper, I discuss issues revolving around history, historiography, alterity, difference and otherness concealed in the doubled Indian/South Asian label used to describe Indian/South Asian dance genres in the UK. The paper traces the historical genealogy of the South Asian label to US, Indian and British contexts and describes how the South Asian enunciation fed into Indian nation-state historiography and politics in the 1950s. I conclude by describing how Akademi: South Asian Dance, a leading London based arts organisation, explored the ambivalence in the doubled Indian/South Asian label by renaming itself in 1997, and forging new local/global networks of communication and artistic exchange between Indian and British based dancers and choreographers at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415415.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Mary Youssef

Keyword(s):

Literary History ◽

First Century ◽

Nation State ◽

Colonial Rule ◽

The Novel ◽

Robust Analysis ◽

Specific Approach ◽

And Gender ◽

Context Specific ◽

Historical Moment

This book examines questions of identity, nationalism, and marginalization in the contemporary Egyptian novel from a postcolonial lens. Under colonial rule, the Egyptian novel invoked a sovereign nation-state by basking in its perceived unity. After independence, the novel professed disenchantment with state practices and unequal class and gender relations, without disrupting the nation’s imagined racial and ethno-religious homogeneity. This book identifies a trend in the twenty-first-century Egyptian novel that shatters this singular view, with the rise of a new consciousness that presents Egypt as fundamentally heterogeneous. Through a robust analysis of “new-consciousness” novels by authors like Idris ᶜAli, Bahaᵓ Tahir, Miral al-Tahawi, and Yusuf Zaydan, the author argues that this new consciousness does not only respond to predominant discourses of difference and practices of differentiation along the axes of race, ethno-religion, class, and gender by bringing the experiences of Nubian, Amazigh, Bedouin, Coptic, Jewish, and women minorities to the fore of Egypt’s literary imaginary, but also heralds the cacophony of voices that collectively cried for social justice from Tahrir Square in Egypt’s 2011-uprising. This study responds to the changing iconographic, semiotic, and formal features of the Egyptian novel. It fulfills the critical task of identifying an emergent novelistic genre and develops historically reflexive methodologies that interpret new-consciousness novels and their mediatory role in formalizing and articulating their historical moment. By adopting this context-specific approach to studying novelistic evolution, this book locates some of the strands that have been missing from the complex whole of Egypt’s culture and literary history.

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Untimely Development, Ugly History:A Drama in Muslinand the Rejection of National-Historical Time

Victoriographies ◽

10.3366/vic.2013.0130 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 161-183

Author(s):

Mary L. Mullen

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

The State ◽

The Political ◽

Nation State ◽

The Novel ◽

Historical Time ◽

Political Processes ◽

The Core

This article considers the politics and aesthetics of the colonial Bildungsroman by reading George Moore's often-overlooked novel A Drama in Muslin (1886). It argues that the colonial Bildungsroman does not simply register difference from the metropolitan novel of development or express tension between the core and periphery, as Jed Esty suggests, but rather can imagine a heterogeneous historical time that does not find its end in the nation-state. A Drama in Muslin combines naturalist and realist modes, and moves between Ireland and England to construct a form of untimely development that emphasises political processes (dissent, negotiation) rather than political forms (the state, the nation). Ultimately, the messy, discordant history represented in the novel shows the political potential of anachronism as it celebrates the untimeliness of everyday life.

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Traditional Concepts of Power Among the Siona-Secoya and the Advent of the Nation-State

Latin American Anthropology Review ◽

10.1525/jlat.1989.1.2.55 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 55-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

William T. Vickers

Keyword(s):

Nation State

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Constitutionalizing Sophisticated Racism: Israel's Proposed Nationality Law

Journal of Palestine Studies ◽

10.1525/jps.2016.45.3.40 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 40-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Amal Jamal

Keyword(s):

External Factors ◽

Radical Right ◽

The Political ◽

Nation State ◽

Right Wing ◽

Internal And External Factors ◽

Nationality Law

This essay analyzes the political motivations behind the Jewish Nation-State Bill introduced in the Knesset in November 2014, shedding light on the ascendancy of the Israeli political establishment's radical right wing. It argues that there were both internal and external factors at work and that it is only by examining these thoroughly that the magnitude of the racist agenda currently being promoted can be grasped. The essay also discusses the proposed legislation's long history and the implications of this effort to constitutionalize what amounts to majoritarian despotism in present-day Israel.

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D?r al-?arb as the Motherland? The Muslim Tatars of (the Grand Duchy of) Lithuania and Social Contract

Comparative Islamic Studies ◽

10.1558/cis.29620 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 157-177

Author(s):

Egdūnas Račius

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Social Contract ◽

Social Consequences ◽

Nation State ◽

The Social ◽

State And Society ◽

Muslim Minority ◽

Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽

In The Beginning ◽

Grand Duchy

Muslim presence in Lithuania, though already addressed from many angles, has not hitherto been approached from either the perspective of the social contract theories or of the compliance with Muslim jurisprudence. The author argues that through choice of non-Muslim Grand Duchy of Lithuania as their adopted Motherland, Muslim Tatars effectively entered into a unique (yet, from the point of Hanafi fiqh, arguably Islamically valid) social contract with the non-Muslim state and society. The article follows the development of this social contract since its inception in the fourteenth century all the way into the nation-state of Lithuania that emerged in the beginning of the twentieth century and continues until the present. The epitome of the social contract under investigation is the official granting in 1995 to Muslim Tatars of a status of one of the nine traditional faiths in Lithuania with all the ensuing political, legal and social consequences for both the Muslim minority and the state.

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