Tom Nairn (1932–2023)
Auteur van The Break-Up of Britain
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Tom Nairn was born in Fife in 1932. A leading figure in the post-war New Left, his other books include The Left Against Europe? And The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy.
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- Officiële naam
- Nairn, Tom Cunningham
- Geboortedatum
- 1932-06-02
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2023-01-21
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Scotland
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Scotland
- Geboorteplaats
- Freuchie, Fife, Scotland
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- university professor (Nationalism and Cultural Diversity, Globalism Research Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne)
political theorist - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences, Australia
- Korte biografie
- Tom Nairn, Professor of Nationalism and Cultural Diversity, Globalism Research Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne. Originally a philosopher from the post-war Logic & Metaphysics school at Edinburgh University, he later studied in France and Italy, where he turned into a Social Scientist.
The Break-up of Britain appeared in 1977 (new edition, Common Ground, Melbourne, and Big Thinking, Glasgow, 2003).
His study of the British Monarchy, The Enchanted Glass was published in 1988, and he returned to teach the ‘Nationalism Studies’ course at Edinburgh University Graduate School from 1995 to 1999.
After the publication of Faces of Nationalism (Verso, 1998), he went to Australia in 2001, first to Monash University, and then to RMIT, in 2002.
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After Britain: New Labor and the Return of Scotland door Tom Nairn
Read this nearly 10 years ago. Perhaps a time to re read it with the possibility of devolution coming up
One of the side effects of doing this cataloguing is rediscovering the political burning issues of the late 1970's and the general New Left criticism of the Labour Government and early Thatcherite government. It seems to be stuck in "the country is ungovernable" mode so part of the political landscape of those days.
Its contemporary value is to see a case study using a sophisticated Marxist analysis of nationalism that assesses how England relates to itself, its home countries and the wider European project… (meer)
Its contemporary value is to see a case study using a sophisticated Marxist analysis of nationalism that assesses how England relates to itself, its home countries and the wider European project… (meer)
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