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Nationalism and Outsiders in the Middle East [9bf599c3]

Tags: classes

1. Memory

  • Does memory provide realness to a specific identity?
  • Much of the historiography is written by Israeli authors
  • The present is interpreted through the past
  • Arab nationalis, palestinian nationalism, arab-palestinian nationalism, and the historical realities of this

2. Marxist and Modernist Views of Nationalism:

2.1. Modernist

  • Nations and nationalism are products of modernity

2.2. Marxist

  • Nations and nationalism are products of capitalism

    • A bourgeoise is required

3. Instrumentalism

  • Since ethnicity and nationalism are results of circumstance

    • Can be wielded and used by elites
    • In invoking this, they are evoked and given form