The Nation State and Its Others: in Lieu of Preface
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What is Diaspora concerned with?
What are infra national entities?
What are infranational and transnational entities?
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What has emerged in the last two decades?
What are the objectives of the article?
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What are the main claims about diasporas?
- That they have always existed, but
things are different now
- They are both the challengers and
the precursors to states
What is the relation between diasporas and territory?
- Diasporas are both confined in a
territory and dispersed
- Diasporas have contested projects of
territorialisation from the part of
nation-state’s elites
What is the relation between diasporas and the Jewish experience?
- Jewish, Greek and Armenian are the
paradigmatic diasporas
- Other groups are also claiming the
term
- Other forms of transnationalism are
also valid and relevant (ex Cubans)
What is the relation between diasporas and nation-states today?
- The nation-state is a strong player in IR
(for example Iraq/Koweit war)
- But transnationalism is everywhere:
1) Diasporas that form part of Koweit
2) Diasporic groups that take arms and
participate in nationalist movements
3) Diasporic groups have shaped modern
western countries (guest workers)
- The homogeneity of the nation-state
is no longer possible
- There is alternative cartography of
social space.
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