Includes bibliographical references and index.

Radical approaches to nation : an introduction / İlker Cörüt and Joost Jongerden -- A democratic nation : the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK and the idea of nation beyond the state / Joost Jongerden and Cengiz Gunes -- Hikmet Kıvılcımlı, "history thesis", and nation-form : national revolutionaries as modern barbarians? / İlker Cörüt -- Dreams and realities : do-it-yourself (autonomic) reincorporation by ex-Insurgents in Colombia / Julián Cortés and Gerard Verschoor -- Venezuela : revolutionary Bolivarianism against the colonial nation-state / Dario Azzellini -- Which nation is this? : Brexit and the not-so-United Kingdom / John Clarke -- Narodas a radical political invention : the outset of intellectual struggles over the nation in the nineteenth century Russia / Gözde YazıcıCörüt -- The Arab nation, the Chinese model, and theories of self-reliant development / Max Ajl -- Revolution and nation building in Burkina Faso / Ernest Harsch -- José Carlos Mariátegui and politics : reform, revolution, and populism / Juan E. De Castro.

"This book centers around one fundamental question: Is it possible to imagine a progressive sense of nation? Rooted in historic and contemporary social struggles, the chapters in this collection examine what a progressive sense of nation might look like, with authors exploring the theory and practice of the nation beyond nationalism. The book is written against the background of rising authoritarian-nationalist movements globally over the last few decades, where many countries have witnessed the dramatic escalation of ethnic-nationalist parties impacting and changing mainstream politics and normalizing anti-immigration, anti-democratic and Islamophobic discourse. This volume discusses viable alternatives for nationalism, which is inherently exclusionary, exploring the possibility of a type of nation-based politics which does not follow principles of nationalism. With its focus on nationalism, politics and social struggles, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political and social sciences"-- Provided by publisher.