Interrogating Naturalness of National Identity

Mishra, Manoj Kumar

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“…A suite of drivers such as socio-economic and political forces went into the construction process, as they served to shape the context within which only certain forms could the national identity take and only certain cultural values could it embody. More importantly, political actors such as social elites, academics, and social movements activists clearly contribute to the setting up of these objectives and directly or indirectly lead the construction of national identity in their desired directions so as to harness the motivational force of a common national identity (Mishra 2020 , p. 333). Democratic participation enables the various political actors mentioned above to influence the construction of a common national identity reflecting their own understanding within a particular spatial–temporal context, while democratic institutions offer them the necessary institutional framework guaranteeing their equal influence over the outcome of the construction process.…”

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Global Justice and the Motivation to Give

Liu

2022

Fudan J. Hum. Soc. Sci.

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Cosmopolitans, statists and liberal nationalists disagree over the relevance of regulating substantive inequalities at the global level. This paper aims to resolve the dispute among these three schools of thought. I show firstly that cosmopolitans, statists, and liberal nationalists all aim to motivate people to give in support of distributive justice at the global level. However, cosmopolitans lack a substantive theory of how to develop sufficient motivation to give globally. Secondly, the statists’ account of the motivation to give is deficient because it fails to recognise the motivational force of a common national identity among people. Thirdly, Miller’s account is more plausible than the statists’ but fails to facilitate a dynamic process whereby people’s national identities could be extended to the global level in order to support the cosmopolitan project. This needs to be supplemented by the statists’ understanding of democratic process—one which incorporates the principles of Habermas’s communicative action as a mechanism for developing social solidarity among people. I endorse an account that recognises the motivational force of national identity and the possibility of extending it beyond nation state through democratic participation at the global level.

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Global Justice and the Motivation to Give

Liu

2022

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“…The presence of a stateless group within a recognized state is constructed as a threat to the dominant national identity. Manoj Kumar Mishra (2020) uses the concept of "self" and "other" to explain the nation-state identity-building process and its consequences, "Naturalization/secularization of the nation-state idea without deliberating on the possibilities of politicization and construction of national identities legitimize exclusion of people from national space, drives toward homogenization and nation-building process producing refugees and stateless people." Stateless groups challenge the dominant narrative used to build the national identity of an established nation-state as it contradicts historical cultural markers, creating binary categorization that becomes the source of conflict.…”

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Stateless Groups Countering Securitizing Narratives

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Embodied Faith and the Limits of Female Agency in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Does My Head Look Big in This?

Chaoui

2023

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The present essay discusses Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Does My Head Look Big in This? by focusing on the rendition of Islam as an axis of social agency in an environment that is excessively antagonistic of any version of Islam that falls outside the contours of the “liberal model” morphed by the Western creed of equality, liberty. Amal, the protagonist, embodies the dilemmas of choice and agency within an ideological rubric which disassociates such notions from faith-based convictions. The analysis relies on the notion of Muslim agency as theorized by Saba Mahmood, for whom the conscious formation of deeply rooted religious subjectivities is sidelined within the modern secular rubrics of self-formation. The article also draws on W.E.B Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness to highlight the extent to which Muslim female bodies are caught at the intersection between religion and nation. Hence, this essay discloses the challenges facing Muslim women whose exercise of agency is tied to their religious beliefs in a backdrop characterized by multicultural and secular economies. More particularly, it explores Amal’s religious tradition of habituated practices—such as wearing the veil in a hostile environment—as embodiments of autonomous agency.

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Interrogating Naturalness of National Identity

Cited by 5 publications

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Global Justice and the Motivation to Give

Global Justice and the Motivation to Give

Stateless Groups Countering Securitizing Narratives

Embodied Faith and the Limits of Female Agency in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Does My Head Look Big in This?

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