Nationalism,Multiculturality and Liberal Political Theory: Some Reflections

For a standard exposition of contemporary Western political theory, see Goodin Robert E. Pettit Philip (eds.), Contemporary Political Philosophy : An Anthology, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1997. Also useful is O’Sullivan Noel (ed.), Political Theory in Transition, Routledge, London, 2000.

The best illustration of such a perspective remains Perry’ Anderson, Considerations of Western Marxism, Verso, London, 1979.

For a classic treatment of the entire range of democratic models, see Held David , Models of Democracy, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1987.

The literature on multiculturalism is already huge. For an excellent recent account, see Parekh Bhikhu , Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory, Palgrave, New York, 2000. Also useful, is Gutmann A. (ed.), Multiculturalism, Princeton University Press, Princeton N.J., 1994.

On post-coloniality, see Said Edward Orientalism : Western Conceptions of the Orient, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1978; Said Edward , Culture and Imperialism, Chatto and Windus, London, 1993; Ashcroft B. Griffiths G. Tiffin H. (eds.), The Postcolonial Studies Reader, Routledge, London, 1995. On post-modernism, see Cahoone Lawrence E. , From Modernism to Postmodernism : An Anthology, Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge, 1996; Also useful is Krishan Kumar, From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society; New Theories of the Contemporary World, Blackwell Publisher, Cambridge, 1996.

Once again, the literature on nationalism is vast. For an excellent review of some of the new theoretical approaches, see Smith Anthony D. , ‘Theories of nationalism : alternative models of nation formation, in Leifer Michael (ed.), Asian Nationalism, Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 1-20.

Ibid., pp. 2-3.

Ibid., p. 2.

Ibid., pp. 3–6.

Ibid., pp. 8-9.

Eugene Kamenka, “Nationalism: ambiguous legacies and contingent futures”, Political Studies, Vol. 41, 1993, p. 80.

Chatterjee Partha , “Whose imagined community?” Millennium : Journal of International Studies”, vol. 20, 1991, p. 521.

Ullock Christopher , “Imagined community : a metaphysics of being or becoming?” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 25, 1996, p. 427.

Particularly important in this respect are the works of Yael Tamir, Archard David Miller David . For details see, Tamir Yael , Liberal Nationalism, Princeton University Press, Princeton N.J., 1993; Miller David , On Nationality, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995; and Archard David , “Nationalism and political theory” in O’Sullivan Noel (ed.), op.cit. (item no. 1), pp. 155–171.

Archard David ‘Nationalism and political theory’, op. cit., (item no. 1), pp. 156–157.

Ibid., pp. 158-159.

Ibid., p. 161.

For a comprehensive analysis, see Bhikhu, Parekh. op. cit. (item no. 5), pp. 80–113.

Ibid., p. 82.

Ibid., pp. 83–84.

Ibid., p. 87.

Ibid., p. 89.

Ibid., pp. 93-94.

Ibid., p. 95.

Ibid., pp. 92-94.

Kymlicka W. ‘s major works include, Liberalism, Community and Culture, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989, and Multicultural Citizenship : A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995.

Kymlicka W. Multicultural Citizenship : A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995, p. 18.

Ibid., p. 76.

Parekh Bhikhu , op. cit. (item no. 5), p. 102.

Ibid., p. 103.

Ibid., p. 104.

Mason Andrew , ‘Communitarianism and its Legacy’, in O’Sullivan Noel (ed.), op.cit. (item no. 1), pp. 19–32.

MacIntyre A. , Whose Justice? Which Rationality? op. cit. (item no. 34), p. 345. The citation is from Ibid., p. 22.

Ibid., p. 38.

Ibid., p. 42.

Ibid., p. 57.

Ibid., p. 58.

Ibid., p. 43.

Ibid., p. 52.

Marsh David Stoker Gerry (eds.), Theory and Methods in Political Science, Macmillan Press, London, 1995, pp. 28–29.

Bader Veit , “The Cultural Conditions of Transnational Citizenship : On the Interpenetration of Political and Ethnic Cultures”, Political Theory, Vol. 25, No. 2, April 1997, p. 772.

Ibid., pp. 784–85.