By nuancing the politics of consumption in the context of austerity, this paper highlights the rise of economic nationalism and the reconfiguration of consumer cultures at the aftermath of the global financial crisis. As it argues, in the context of Greece, three types of consumer cultures have manifested evoking consumption as resilience, resistance, or reinforcement. This work focuses on the ...

Secularism is one of the major topics in political philosophy our age. The reason why it’s so, that secularized religion still a strong social glue and moral source day. Secularism, to say shortly, refers religion’s abandoning all its worldy demands, especially demands by turning into cultural body among others. In fact, secularism, as process, had begun mid Medieval Age. But neither reconcilia...

This article reviews how major theorists of nationalism – from Ernest Renan to Benedict Anderson – have tried to come to grips with the puzzle that Swiss nationalism and the Swiss state present in view of the monoethnic states that surround it. I will argue that this puzzle disappears when assuming a political sociology perspective that highlights the networks of political alliances underlying ...

In German history, nationalism is the key to understanding the people and their history. The problem is that many see German nationalism as the events leading up to and following National Socialism, or Nazism. Others ignore the other major events in Germany’s history or see them as insignificant in comparison. It is true that Hitler and the Nazis were a major component in German history and it ...

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This paper critically discusses the pioneering formulation of secularity and secularism in Arab-Islamicate world(s) found Butrus al-Bustani’s The Clarion Syria (1860–1861). discussion is conceptually based on distinction between ‘secularity’ as an analytical concept, ‘secularism’ a normative ideological concept. Here, understood to refer (structural) distinctions, whether practical or theoretic...

For decades, nationalism research had been dominated by historical approaches that viewed the nation state as the product of economic and political forces channelled by elite actors. Once institutionalized, nationalism was seen as a fait accompli, except in unstable states, where fringe radicals and separatists occasionally disrupted the national equilibrium. This scholarly consensus was challe...