Nationalism In France Research Articles

“We are all republicans”: Political Articulation and the Production of Nationhood in France's Face Veil Debate

AbstractIn July 2010, following a year-long nationwide debate over Islamic veiling, the French government passed a law prohibiting facial coverings in all public spaces. Prior research attributes this and other restrictive laws to France's republican secular tradition. This article takes a different approach. Building on literature that sees electoral politics as a site for articulating, rather than merely reflecting, social identities, I argue that the 2010 ban arose in significant part out of political parties’ struggles to demarcate the boundaries of legitimate politics in the face of an ultra-right electoral threat. Specifically, I show that in seeking to prevent the ultra-right National Front party from monopolizing the religious signs issue, France's major right and left parties agreed to portray republicanism as requiring the exclusion of face veiling from public space. Because it was forged in conflict, however, the consensus thus generated is highly fractured and unstable. It conceals ongoing conflict, both between and within political parties, over the precise meaning(s) of French republican nationhood. The findings thus underscore the relationship between boundary-drawing in the political sphere and the process of demarcating the cultural and political boundaries of nationhood in contexts of immigrant diversity.

The fractured ‘we’ and the ethno-national ‘I’: the Macedonian citizenship framework

This article discusses some of the salient features of the post-2001 Macedonian citizenship model, understood not only as a legal formula, but also as a social and cultural fact (Brubaker, R., 1994. Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge/London: Harvard University Press). By using the analytical lens of two competing conceptions of nationhood and citizenship (political vs. ethno-cultural), the article analyses the phenomenon of ‘fractured citizenship’, as reflected in the apparent tension between an official, elite-driven discourse of the Macedonian model of multi-ethnic democracy on the one hand, and diverging ethno-culturally coded initiatives, ideologies and perceptions, on the other. The article concludes that in the future the fractures will either ‘heal’ through a weakening of the ethnic dimension, or progress towards a new form of fragmented citizenship.

On the other side of manichaen differences: on Rogers Brubaker’s understanding nationality

The aim of this short essay is to present an attempt to redefine conceptual distinction between civic and ethnic nationalism through a Rogers Brubaker’s dissertation, as well as to extend and deepen the publics’ interest in this American author. Brubaker works as a sociology department head at the University of Los Angeles. He has written many books and studies on social theory, ethnicity, citizenship, immigrations, etc. His first book was on rationality in Max Weber’s work. The next one titled Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (1992) analyzed the dubiousness of making a sharp difference between originating and defining citizenship in the two European nations. In his books Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (1996) and Ethnicity without Groups (2004) he comparatively analyzed the collapse of multicultural societies and restoring of national states that successfully developed their own theoretical views. His last book Nacionalistička politika I svakodnevni etnicitet u transilvanijskom gradu (2006) has been published by Princeton University Press.

Avoiding the Ethnicity Trap

In his rightly influential Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Harvard University Press, 1992), Rogers Brubaker treated identity as class of cultural idioms that people deploy in thinking and talking about themselves and their relations to others. His vivid comparison of French and German approaches to the connection between citizenship and nationhood left little doubt that contrasting histories had institutionalized very different idioms, practices, and legal traditions in the two countries. The distinction between (German) jus sanguinis and (French) jus soli almost instantly became standard way of illustrating the contrast between what earlier analysts had more loosely called and civic nationalism. Nationhood, in this context, was then a manner of thinking and talking about cultural and political belonging at the level of the nation-state (Citizenship and Nationhood, p. 162). Although that book said little about ethnicity as such, it argued forcefully that German ethnic consciousness had long preceded formation of the German state, while French rulers generally assumed that anyone who made the effort could become French. Very different laws of citizenship emerged from the two contrasting approaches to nationhood. States could choose the extent to which, and the ways in which, ethnicity became part of citizenship's very definition. Over the following decade, Brubaker began to see the risks of leaving the problem there. On one side, ethnic primordialists such as Anthony Smith were arguing that only long experiences of shared living and mutual understanding could form genuine ethnic groups, but once they existed,

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany

Citizenship, nationhood and the production of political space

The purpose of this essay is to provide a discussion of the way in which citizenship and nationhood are implied in the territorialization of the modem state. Moreover, it attempts a brief exposition of the manner in which a new form of citizenship is involved in the de‐territorialization of political space within the European Union. The main argument is developed as a critical engagement with Rogers Brubaker's study on ‘Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany’. Following a critical evaluation of Brubaker's exceedingly rigid ontological framework, this essay offers an alternative reading of the historical relationship between citizenship, nationhood and political space in France and Germany. With both nation and state stripped of their exclusive status as possible mediations of political organization, a brief sketch is offered in ‘which the European Union Citizenship is evaluated in terms of its contribution to the de‐territorialization of the EU.

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany.

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany.

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. By Rogers Brubaker. Cambridge University Press, 1992. 270 pp. $35.00

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. By Rogers Brubaker. Cambridge University Press, 1992. 270 pp. $35.00

Citizenship and Social Reform - Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992. Pp. 270. $45.00 cloth). - Allan Mitchell, The Divided Path: The German Influence on Social Reform in France After 1870 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp.410. $35.00 cloth).

Citizenship and Social Reform - Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992. Pp. 270. $45.00 cloth). - Allan Mitchell, The Divided Path: The German Influence on Social Reform in France After 1870 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp.410. $35.00 cloth).

Toward a new sociology of the state: on Roger Brubaker's ‘Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany’

This article discusses Roger Brubaker's contribution to a new sociology of the state, which considers the state not as a strategic actor or a territorial organization but as a culturally bounded membership association. After pointing out the novelty of Brubaker's approach in light of previous theories of the state, I address some of its shortcomings—a formalistic concept of citizenship, an exclusive focus on elites, a mechanistic fashioning of the relationship between ideas and interests, and no mention of the pending Europeanization of citizenship.

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Rogers Brubaker

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsCitizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Rogers Brubaker William W. HagenWilliam W. Hagen Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 67, Number 1Mar., 1995 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/245024 Views: 6Total views on this site Copyright 1995 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Harvard University Press, 1992. 270 pp. $35.00

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Harvard University Press, 1992. 270 pp. $35.00

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany.

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany.

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany.Rogers Brubaker

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsCitizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Rogers Brubaker Geoff EleyGeoff Eley Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 99, Number 3Nov., 1993 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/230323 Views: 7Total views on this site Copyright 1993 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and GermanyBrubaker, Rogers. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. Pp. 270.

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Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany.

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany.

Book Review: Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany

Book Review: Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. By Rogers Brubaker. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. 270p. $35.00. - Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post-Imperial Britain. By Harry Goulbourne. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 271p. $54.95. - The Frontiers of Citizenship. Edited by Ursula Vogel and Michael Moran. New York: St Martin's, 1991. 210p. $49.95.

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Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany

Preface Introduction: Traditions of Nationhood in France and Germany I. The Institution of Citizenship 1. Citizenship as Social Closure 2. The French Revolution and the Invention of National Citizenship 3. State, State-System, and Citizenship in Germany II. Defining The Citizenry: The Bounds of Belonging 4. Citizenship and Naturalization in France and Germany 5. Migrants into Citizens: The Crystallization of Jus Soli in Late-Nineteenth-Century France 6. The Citizenry as Community of Descent: The Nationalization of Citizenship in Wilhelmine Germany 7. Etre Francais, Cela se Merite: Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in France in the 1980s 8. Continuities in the German Politics of Citizenship Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (review)

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (review)