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Dr Javeria Khadija Shah
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
In recent years there has been a rising trend in UK HE to push towards a decolonisation of the curriculum as an active response to addressing racial inequity. However, the articulation, outcomes, and impact of decolonising practices remains ambiguous. This ambiguity is perhaps in part fuelled by a nationwide curricular omission of Britain’s colonial past which leads us to question the effectiveness of decolonisation to a backdrop of a nationwide colonial amnesia.
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1. POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST
AND NATIONALISM
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
2. OUTLINE
Look at relationship between images
of the past and nationalism:
(Orwell, 1984: “Who controls the past controls the
future; who controls the present controls the past”)
• Packaging the past: mechanisms of
control
• Disseminating the message
• Content of the message
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
3. PACKAGING THE PAST
WHAT AGENCY IS RESPONSIBLE?
Depends on relationship between “nation”
and state:
• “Nation” controls own state
(Britain, France, Spain etc.)
• “Nation” is controlled by another state
(Ireland, Finland, Estonia etc.)
• Note East-West contrast
(distinction between “civic” and “ethnic”
nationalism)
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
5. PACKAGING THE PAST
“NATION” WITH ITS OWN STATE
• Central state agencies
(monarchy, presidency, etc., operating
through various ceremonies and rituals)
• Universities and national academies
(Academic historians, work available for
popularisation)
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
6. PACKAGING THE PAST
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“NATION” WITHOUT A STATE
Local “national” academies
(RIA, Finnish Society of Science, Royal Bohemian
Society of Science)
Literary / historical societies
(Irish Archaeological Society, Finnish Literary Society,
Society of the Museum of the Homeland <Czech>,
Latvian Literary Society, Estonian Learned Society)
Individual historians: “fathers of the nation”
(Palacky, Paisi, Daukantas)
Historical novelists, folklorists
(Topelius, Scott)
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
7. DISSEMINATING THE PACKAGE
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TEACHING NATIONALIST HISTORY:
“NATION” WITH ITS OWN STATE
Public ceremonials
(inaugurations, military parades etc.)
Mass education system
(civic loyalty inculcated in elementary schools,
using images of the past and present)
Military service / conscription
(Training in loyalty to state)
Informal channels
(newspapers, popular culture)
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
8. DISSEMINATING THE PACKAGE
TEACHING NATIONALIST HISTORY:
“NATION” WITHOUT ITS OWN STATE
• Possibly, mass education system
(only if control is not centralised)
• Private schools
(if permitted, and affordable)
• Informal channels
(newspapers, popular culture, reading rooms
and clubs sponsored by nationalist
organisations—subject to censorship)
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
12. NATIONALIST HISTORY
CHARACTERISTIC COMPONENTS AND
FUNCTIONS
• Myths of origin
(definition of ancestry of nation)
• Myths of development
(reinforcement of national solidarity)
• Myths of destiny
(provision of inspiration for future of nation)
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
13. NATIONALIST HISTORY
MYTHS OF ORIGIN
• Genealogy of the nation
– Identification with particular group
(Israelite tribe, ancient Romans,
Scythians, Celts)
– Notion of absorption of earlier and later
groups
(Celts in Ireland; Saxons in England)
• Birth of the nation
– “Time immemorial” (Greeks, Basques)
– Decisive formative event (battles of
Clontarf, Hastings)
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
14. NATIONALIST HISTORY
MYTHS OF DEVELOPMENT
• Golden age
(era of “national greatness”)
• Dark age
(era of oppression—conquest by alien
power)
• Age of national struggle
(era of resistance to alien influence)
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
15. NATIONALIST HISTORY
GOLDEN AGE
• Glorious political and military past
(Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Kingdom of
Bohemia in 14th century; second Bulgarian
empire in 13th century)
• Ancient spiritual achievements
(“island of saints and scholars”; Poles as
heirs to Slav democracy)
• Literary attainments
(epic poems <Kalevala, Táin>)
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
16. NATIONALIST HISTORY
DARK AGE
• Era of national oppression
(750 years of English “oppression” in
Ireland; 500-year Turkish “yoke” in
Bulgaria)
• Era of national fragmentation
(Germany, Italy—possible to blame external
powers)
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
17. NATIONALIST HISTORY
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AGE OF NATIONAL STRUGGLE
Long struggle against foreign domination,
with four distinctive themes:
National heroes
(William Wallace, Robert Emmet, etc.)
Traitors to the nation
(Dermot McMurrough, Guy Fawkes, etc.)
Great victories
(Battle of the Boyne, etc.)
Glorious defeats
(Battle of Aughrim; Battle of White Mountain)
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
19. NATIONALIST HISTORY
MYTHS OF DESTINY
• National mission
(nation as provider of universal inspiration
e.g. imperial civilising mission;
defence of spiritual / humanitarian values)
• National territory
(notion of historical territory, typically
greater than the area now occupied by the
nation, as the target territory)
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
20. NATIONAL TERRITORIES
IRELAND
“The national territory consists of the
whole island of Ireland, its islands and
the territorial seas” (Constitution, 1937,
art. 2)
Catholic / nationalist / “Irish” Ireland
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
23. NATIONAL TERRITORIES
ISRAEL
“Historic Israel—the Holy
Land” (Goodnews Christian
Ministry)
Kingdom of David
(Israeli Foreign Ministry)
“Ethnic” Israel, 1947
POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
5. IMAGES OF THE PAST AND NATIONALISM
24. THE END …
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