Question of the Month Series

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I would like to personally thank Dr. Simon Purdue for doing so much to launch and manage our Question of the Month series, which I’ve been delighted to see grow over the last two years. His talents have been a great blessing to the series, and to H-Nationalism more generally. Simon is ready to hand over the reins, and so in this message I’m putting out an open call for volunteers to manage the series. Core responsibilities include formulating and posting the monthly question, inviting guest contributors to do the same, moderating incoming responses, and

H-Nationalism’s Question of the Month series offers a forum for discussing the big questions surrounding research, pedagogy, and practice in the field of nationalism studies and the history of nationalism. Use the reply feature to join the conversation! Email Simon Purdue (purdue.s@northeastern.edu) of Northeastern University if you’d like to propose a question of you own. If you need technical assistance with logging in and posting comments, please contact H-Net’s Help Desk (help@mail.h-net.org).

Dear subscribers,

It's hard to believe it, but February is already upon us. The year is a month old

Thanks David
Incredible, if not entirely unanticipated, scenes! In response to some of your questions I have the following thoughts offered as a non-expert on US politics:
The invasion of the US Capitol doesn't seem to have been a coup, which would imply organisation and coordination of a higher standard than was on display. If disruption is the zeitgeist, then this was a disruptive event rather than an insurrection, which implies a sustained, and usually armed, uprising.
Using the prism of nationalism to analyse the ideas and ideologies that motivated the invasion of the Capitol can be

No doubt many scholars are concerned and have strong opinions about the recent attack in Washington, D.C. I wanted to offer some preliminary questions and reactions, in a scholarly tone, with the reminder upfront that these are open for informed debate. The world is sorely starved for balanced academic discussion, and H-Nationalism is a forum for that. All comments, as per usual, are moderated before publication.

What did we witness yesterday (Jan. 6)?

A coup is a deliberate attempt to overthrow a government. A riot is something else--surely the two terms aren’t synonyms, even if they aren’t

Just some scattered reflections as a scrambling finale to an incredible year.

I agree with Toms Kencis’ well-thought comments. Thank you so much for these, which are also useful for the research I am carrying out.

Since our previous thread on climate change in HNationalism (https://networks.h-net.org/node/3911/discussions/4386325/question-month-august), more studies have been published on these issues. As far as I know, my NP article (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/abs/ultimate-challenge-nationalism-and-climate-change/1667FAD7F2731F536AA671C42C8E99C3)

Dear All, 

Allow me to add a few additional conjectures to this discussion. 

The first pertains to the role of "resource nationalism" in potentially shaping engagement with either ecology or environmentalism. My comment here stems in part from my wondering whether we are not entering into a new era of global economic relations based on a cagey protectionism and a re-entanglement of geopolitical rivalries with trade. Will the United States, for example, at some point return to the politics of the 1990s, when both major parties favored opening economic borders? Or will Trump's trade wars be an

First, please allow expressing my gratitude towards Dr. Daniele Conversi for such insightful and interesting split of the question. And second - my two cents on recent East European/postsocialist perspective of the question. 

In the late 1980s, the environmentalism was high on nationalist agenda in many socialist countries, especially in USSR republics of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Part of that was political reclaiming of "Haimat" with strong romanticism overtones, part - resistance to modernization and industrialization, represented by Communist power, and part - a tactical manoeuvre

A comment from Dr. Daniele Conversi:

The relationship between nationalism and environmentalism/ecologism (the two shouldn’t be conflated) is a fascinating one – and one that indeed needs to be explored in detail. Thank you for posing it.

As currently framed, the question needs first to be contextualised. Perhaps it should be divided into three main historically grounded sub-questions:

Is the relationship between environmentalism/ecologism and nationalism intrinsically leftist?

Ever since their very foundation, European Green parties have been strongly and clearly associated with the Left, although

H-Nationalism’s Question of the Month series offers a forum for discussing the big questions surrounding research, pedagogy, and practice in the field of nationalism studies and the history of nationalism. Use the reply feature to join the conversation! Email Simon Purdue (purdue.s@northeastern.edu) of Northeastern University if you’d like to propose a question of you own. If you need technical assistance with logging in and posting comments, please contact H-Net’s Help Desk (help@mail.h-net.org).

Dear Subscribers,

It is hard to believe that we're already launching the final Question of the

Hello all,

Thanks to all of you for this months invigorating discussion on what I believe is a very timely question. This month we tackled the complex relationship between nationalism and authoritarianism, and we have seen through your comments how this relationship can take many forms. While it is clear that nationalism and authoritarianism often do come hand in hand, some of you have highlighted case studies - both contemporary and historical - that disrupt this narrative somewhat. Whether it be the relationship of the USSR to nationalism or the INC to authoritarianism, it is clear that