Diversity and Contestations over Nationalism in Europe and Canada

442 Pages·2018·3.621 MB·English

by  John Erik Fossum, Riva Kastoryano, Birte Siim

Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
Diversity and Contestations
over Nationalism in Europe
and Canada
Edited by
John Erik Fossum, Riva Kastoryano, and Birte Siim
Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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Department of Sociology and Social Research
University of Trento
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University of Copenhagen
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Diversity and
Contestations over
Nationalism in
Europe and Canada
Editors
John Erik Fossum Riva Kastoryano
ARENA Centre for European Studies CNRS
University of Oslo Sciences Po
Oslo, Norway Paris, France
Birte Siim
Department of Culture and Global Studies
Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark
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Preface and Acknowledgements
This book has been long in coming. It is composed of a selection of the
contributions that were presented at two Reconsidering Complex
Diversity in the European Union and Canada (RECODE) workshops.
RECODE was funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and
ran during 2010–2014. When we started the RECODE project in 2010,
the financial crisis had certainly already started to affect Europe, but we
did not anticipate its depth or gravity, nor the successive confluence of
crises when the refugee crisis and the Ukraine crisis struck. Consequently,
there was much more optimism than today with regard to how modern
societies would be able to handle difference and diversity. In retrospect, it
might be fortuitous that the book has taken some time in completion,
because this has allowed us to incorporate better the intentions that mar
our societies at present—between the onus on opening up and fostering
inclusion, on the one hand, and closing down and fostering exclusion, on
the other. The book seeks to provide an overview of these competing
tendencies. We are grateful to our colleagues in the RECODE project for
a very stimulating intellectual milieu. Peter Kraus and Ivan Greguric
have, in addition, helped us overcome various practical hurdles. We are
grateful to Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo) and Birte Siim
(University of Aalborg) for having (co-)organised the two workshops that
we have based the book on. We would like to thank our chapter con-
tributors, without whose support and patience the book would never
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have come about. We also wish to express our gratitude to the ESF for its
financial and administrative support. We are also grateful for the support
provided to us from ARENA at the University of Oslo and the University
of Aalborg. We would like to extend a special thanks to Chris Engert for
his excellent language editing, formatting and proofreading of the entire
manuscript. Finally, we are grateful to our Palgrave editors for their sup-
port and patience.
Oslo, Norway John Erik Fossum
Paris, France Riva Kastoryano
Aalborg, Denmark Birte Siim
Contents
1 Introduction: Negotiating Territoriality and Nationalism 1
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Part I The Transnational Challenge 25
2 T heorising About and Beyond Transnational Processes 31
Nina Glick Schiller
3 T ransnational Politics of Integration and an “Imagined
Global Diaspora” 63
Riva Kastoryano
4 T ransnationalism and Interculturalism: Overlapping
Affinities 89
Ricard Zapata-Barrero
5 P olitical Engagement Among Young Adults with 
Minority Backgrounds: Between Identity and Interest 123
Mette Andersson and Jon Rogstad
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Part II The European Union and Canada as Vanguards? 149
6 Can We (Still) Think About the European Union
and Canada as “Cosmopolitan Vanguards”? 155
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7 Negotiating Equality and Diversity: Transnational
Challenges to European Citizenship 187
Monika Mokre and Birte Siim
8 Wither the Canadian Model? Evaluating the New
Canadian Nationalism (2006–2015) 211
Patti Tamara Lenard
9 Recognition, Re-distribution and Solidarity: The Case
of Multicultural Canada 237
Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Part III Contestations over Nationalism 263
10 L essons Learned or a Missed Opportunity? Norway
After the 22 July Terrorist Attack 269
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
11 The New Nationalism and its Relationship to Islam 285
Sindre Bangstad
12 The New Front National: Still a Master Case? 313
Hans-Georg Betz
Conten ts ix
13 “Needed but Undeserving”: Contestations of Entitlement
in the Danish Policy Framework on Migration
and Integration 337
Martin Bak Jørgensen and Trine Lund Thomsen
14 C ultural Recognition and Democratic Participation:
Immigrant Organisations in Oslo 365
Marianne Takle
15 Conclusion: Contestations Within, Rather Than About,
Nationalism 395
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I ndex 413