Weekend Reading, 5/30/2015

David Prior Discussion

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Dear All,

 

El País has an article on the consequences of Ada Colau’s victory at the municipal elections of Barcelona for the independence movement in Catalonia. openDemocracy published an analysis of the results of the Spanish elections by Fernando Betancor that has a very interesting section on Catalonia and the independence process.

 

Also on openDemocracy, Anna Vesterinen looks at the populist Finns Party in Finland, while Bakar Berekashvili examines the meaning of Independence Day in Georgia.

 

John Childs writes for New Internationalist on “resource nationalism” in Africa.

 

Scroll.In has a post about how cricket in India is transitioning from a subnational to cosmopolitan sport.

 

Anadolu Agency has a short report on Myanmar nationalism and the boat crisis in Southeast Asia.

 

Stratfor has a two-page analysis of the past and future of nationalist opposition to European integration.

 

At The Hill, Syrian Kurdish journalist Sirwan Kajjo has an editorial about “The Disastrous State of Kurdish Nationalism.”

 

EKantipur.com has a post about the April 25 earthquake in Nepal and its political context, with some attention to nationalism.

 

Reviews: Richard Bosworth reviews Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema for Times Higher Education.  Aparna Malaviya reviews Narendra Subramanian’s Nation and Family: Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship for your own H-Nationalism.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Cristian Cercel, David Prior, and Emmanuel Dalle Mulle

 

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Dear All,

Greetings!

Please find one more review for this week's Weekend Reading below:

Sandra Williams reviews Ali Behdad and Luke Gartlan ‘s book  entitled Photography's Orientalisms: New Essays on Colonial Representation, which introduces the early foundations of the Orientalist Photography field through a series of essays engrained in the Saidian structure of interpretation.

Have a good weekend!

Best regards,

Justin Collier