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The mortality and morality of nations /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abulof, Uriel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Jews > Israel > Identity.
National characteristics, Israeli.
Afrikaners > South Africa > Ethnic identity.
French-Canadians > Québec (Province) > Ethnic identity.
Group identity > Israel.
Group identity > South Africa.
Group identity > Québec (Province)
Israel > Ethnic relations.
South Africa > Ethnic relations.
Québec (Province) > Ethnic relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • Theory
  • Case studies
  • Part II. Theory
  • Meaning
  • Mortality
  • Morality
  • Liberty
  • Language
  • Part III. The French Canadians
  • The "Canadiens": the emergence of an endangered ethnie
  • The French Canadians: the rise and demise of ethno-religionism
  • The Québécois: the rise and demise of ethnonationalism
  • Part IV. Jews and Zionists
  • Ontological insecurity: Jewish identity in modernity
  • Epistemic insecurity: Jewish and Zionist survival in question
  • Existential threats: Zionism's "holes in the net"
  • Existential threads: the lifelines of Zionism
  • Part V. The Afrikaners
  • Ontological insecurity: the birth of the Afrikaner ethnie
  • Epistemic insecurity: Afrikaner survival in question
  • Existential threats: Afrikanerdom's "holes in the net"
  • Existential threads: the lifelines of Afrikanerdom
  • The twilight of Apartheid and its aftermath
  • Conclusion.