Techno Trans-nationalism

Techno-nationalism and Meso Innovation Systems

Revised version of a paper presented at the Trinational Institute on Innovation, Competitiveness and Sustainability organized by the Center for Policy Research on Science and Technology of Simon Fraser University and held at Whistler, B.C. on August 14-21 1994. This version is to be published in R. Anderson et al. National and Regional Innovation Systems in a Global Context: The North American ...

The Contradictions of Techno-Nationalism and Techno-Globalism: A Historical Perspective

Techno-nationalism and techno-globalism are descriptive and prescriptive categories for understanding the impact of technology on society and vice versa. They reflect the underlying assumptions made by analysts of the place of technology in the world, and denote ideologies, rather than technological policies or realities. They also help us to realize that standard accounts of the nation and glo...

Précis of implicit nationalism.

While the study of nationalism has received much attention throughout the social sciences and humanities, the experimental investigation of it lags behind. In this paper we review recent advances in the examination of implicit nationalism. In the first set of experiments we survey, the Palestinian, Israeli, Italian, and Russian flags were primed (or not, in the control conditions) and their eff...

Arabesk: Music and nationalism

New Approaches to Nationalism

Whatever nationalism is, whether ideology, civic religion, popular sentiment, or mass psychosis, its influence on modern society, politics, and art has been profound, perhaps more influential than the political movements of liberalism, fascism, and communism, all of which it underlay, interacted with, and powerfully defined. Whether analysts view nationalism as a beneficial or detrimental histo...