4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Arguments over the value of nationalism seem to have been raging for centuries, even though the nation state as we know it has only become widespread in the last two hundred years.
In this programme, David Edmonds tracks the emergence of the nation state and the debate surrounding it. From post-colonial Ghana to contemporary Britain, we hear what nationalism has meant to different people in different contexts, as well as the social and philosophical principles that underlie it.
Contributors:
Professor Michael Billig, Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University,
Professor Richard Bourke, professor of the history of political thought, University of Cambridge.
Elizabeth Ohene, former Minister of State in Ghana.
Dr Sandra Obradovic, Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University.
Professor Tariq Modood, director of the Bristol University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship.
Dr Sarah Fine, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Producer: Nathan Gower Studio Manager: James Beard Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith Production Co-ordinators: Maria Ogundele and Helena Warwick-Cross
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0:42.0 | Nationalism is in the air. |
0:45.0 | The Russian invasion of Ukraine is |
0:52.0 | in part by what many outside Russia regard as wicked nationalism. |
0:57.0 | The unexpectedly stubborn Ukrainian defence is presented as an example of positive nationalism. Ironically, if Russia has achieved |
1:04.8 | little else, it has managed to cement a powerful Ukrainian national identity. Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of this. |
1:17.0 | In this analysis about the nation state, I'll be asking what is nationalism and does it exist in a healthy form. |
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1:26.8 | Glory to Ukraine. |
1:27.8 | Try and imagine a world in which there are no countries. |
1:35.0 | John Lennon thought we could do it, but it's not easy for most of us. |
1:39.0 | The fact that the world is divided into nation states seems as fixed and natural as gravity. |
1:45.6 | Gravity however has always been with us. |
1:50.8 | In 1900 it's been calculated that only 40% of the world's habitable landmass |
1:59.0 | was comprised of independent nation states. A hundred years later by 2000 it was |
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