Herb, G.H. and Kaplan, D.H. (eds.): Scaling Identities: Nationalism and Territoriality

Nationalism, Territoriality and National Territorial Belonging

Most studies of nationalism are based on an understanding of the nation as a cultural collectivity that can be located in historical terms in the passage from the pre-modern to the modern era. Rather less attention is paid to spatial considerations. In this light, the paper argues that we cannot fully understand nationalism and its relationship to the nation unless we take into account territor...

Whose Homeland? Territoriality and Religious Nationalism in Pre-partition Bengal

Scholarly inquiries into communalism in South Asia have often exclusively focused on politically constructed religious and ethnic identity categories. This article challenges these assumptions by arguing that territoriality and the designation of homelands played an important, but largely unrecognized, role in developing social and political boundaries in the region. By analyzing the writings o...

Random Brownian Scaling Identities

An identity in distribution due to F. Knight for Brownian motion is extended in two diierent ways: rstly by replacing the supremum of a reeecting Brownian motion by the range of an unreeected Brownian motion, and secondly by replacing the reeecting Brownian motion by a recurrent Bessel process. Both extensions are explained in terms of random Brownian scaling transformations and Brownian excurs...

Painting Regional Identities: Nationalism in the Arts, France, Germany and Spain, 1890-1914

Random Brownian Scaling Identities and Splicing of Bessel Processes

An identity in distribution due to F. Knight for Brownian motion is extended in two di erent ways: rstly by replacing the supremum of a re ecting Brownian motion by the range of an unre ected Brownian motion, and secondly by replacing the re ecting Brownian motion by a recurrent Bessel process. Both extensions are explained in terms of random Brownian scaling transformations and Brownian excurs...