Ideologies of globalism confront and transform nationalisms. Globalism heralds a new era of corporate globalization, and generates powerful responses. Just as classical imperialism generated anti-imperialist movements and anti-colonial nationalisms, so today's empire generates new frameworks for identification and mobilization. To what extent are the emerging agendas for emancipation non-nationalist or anti-nationalist: what is the place of nationalism in counter-globalism? The article draws on the work of Tom Nairn to analyze nationalism under globalism; drawing on a range of Australian examples, it debates the extent to which counter-globalist movements are engaged in a process of redefining and transforming nationalism; the article ends with some speculation about the ways in which nationalism and cosmopolitism are being combined.
Social Movements - Globalization - Globalism - Nationalism - Internationalism
James GOODMAN is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is editor of Protest and Globalization: Prospects for Transnational Solidarity (Pluto Press, Sydney, and Fernwood Press, Vancouver, 2002) and co-editor of Moving Mountains: Communities Confront Mining and Globalization (Zed Press, London, 2002) and Corporate Power vs. Peoples Power: Transnational Corporations and Globalization (Ibon Books, Manila, 2002).
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This article is based on a conference paper presented at the 2002 conference of the Asia-Pacific Sociological Association in Brisbane, Australia ("Asia-Pacific Societies: Contrasts, Challenges, and Crises").
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