Psycho-nationalism: Global Thought, Iranian Imaginations (The Global Middle East)
Cambridge University Press, 12/7/2017
EAN 9781108423076, ISBN10: 1108423078
Hardcover, 176 pages, 24.2 x 16.4 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
States routinely and readily exploit the grey area between sentiments of national affinity and hegemonic emotions geared to nationalist aggression. In this book, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam focuses on the use of Iranian identity to offer a timely exploration into the psychological and political roots of national identity and how these are often utilised by governments from East to West. Examining this trend, both under the Shah as well as by the governments since the 1979 Iranian revolution, Adib-Moghaddam's analysis is driven by what he terms 'psycho-nationalism', a new concept derived from psychological dynamics in the making of nations. Through this, he demonstrates how nationalist ideas evolved in global history and their impact on questions of identity, statecraft and culture. Psycho-nationalism describes how a nation is made, sustained and 'sold' to its citizenry and will interest students and scholars of Iranian culture and politics, world political history, nationalism studies and political philosophy.
Introduction
love and politics
1. National hysteria
Roma o'Morte
2. International hubris
Kings of Kings and Vicegerents of God
3. Geographic dislocations
Iran is in India
4. Religious neuroses
Islam and the people
5. Un-national therapy
freedom and its discontents
6. Sexing the nation
subversive trans-localities.