Unit NATIONS AND NATIONALISM IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- A003406
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Emanuela Costantini
- Teachers
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- Emanuela Costantini
- Hours
- 36 ore - Emanuela Costantini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline storiche, geografiche e socio-antropologiche
- Sector
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course aims to reconstruct the processes of nation-state formation from the nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe.
- Reference texts
- Students attending the course: G. Crainz, Ombre d'Europa Nazionalismi, memorie, usi politici della storia, Donzelli, 2022 S. Cavazza, Nazione, nazionalismo e folklore, Il Mulino, 2023 Studenti not attending the course: A. Pitassio, Storia dell'Europa orientale, Morlacchi, 2011, da p. 177-407 S. Cavazza, Nazione, nazionalismo e folklore, Il Mulino, 2023
- Educational objectives
- Explore one of the processes that has shaped European history over the last two centuries, redefining the map of Europe.
- Prerequisites
- Explore one of the processes that has shaped European history over the last two centuries, redefining the map of Europe.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, class discussions, seminars.
- Other information
- Students with learning disabilities are invited to contact the instructor directly to agree on course content, supplementary teaching materials, and assessment methods.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral. For students with SLDs agreed upon with the teacher based on their needs.
- Extended program
- The course will begin with a study of the development of the concept of nationhood, before analyzing the birth and development of European nation states from the 19th century to World War I. It will then examine how the national question was present during the Cold War, finally arriving at the re-emergence of nationalist ideals as a driving force in continental politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Nations and nationalism in contemporary Europe Course outline: 1. Course presentation: the idea of nation 2. Nationalism: what is it? Where? When? The Risorgimenti 3. Europe and the long 19th century: Southeast Europe and the crisis of the Ottoman Empire (Greek independence, unrest in Romania and Serbia) 4. 1848 and the Crimean War 5. 1877-78 6. Nations: what are their characteristics? What capitals? 7. Border issues: 1885-1908 8. The Balkan Wars 9. World War I: still nation states 10. Between the wars: increasingly extreme nationalism 11. The rise of communist regimes: the end of the nation? 12. The nation and communism, the nation in communism 13. Breaks: the 1980s and increasingly national communism 14. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the USSR: the return to nation states 15. A new radical nationalism? The wars for the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia 16. The erosion of Russia, Russia's reaction: the Caucasus and Ukraine
- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- The course falls under Objective 16 as it aims to provide knowledge tools for understanding the current geopolitical situation.