[Nettime-nl] The Netherlands by Frank J.Lechner (Modified by geert lovink)

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The Netherlands: Globalization and National Identity
Author(s) - Frank J Lechner (Professor of Sociology at Emory University)
Series: Globalizing Regions

The Netherlands will be the first concise, authored introduction 
available on the topic. The Netherlands has been a key entrepot in the 
world capitalist system for centuries, but because of relatively recent 
demographic changes, it has become symbolic of the clash of European 
and Islamic cultures. Perhaps the most secular nation in the world, it 
now houses a very large Islamic population. That population is the 
fruit of globalization, and how the Dutch have responded to this broad 
cultural shift tells us a great deal about the changing nature of 
national identity in the age of globalization. In particular, Frank 
Lechner explains how globalization calls forth very particularistic and 
localist responses. Along with providing a broad overview of the 
contemporary Netherlands, Lechner will focus on how globalization is 
generating new discourses, cultures, and state policies. Among other 
topics, the book will feature chapters on soccer culture, religion (and 
the lack thereof), the media, the welfare state, multiculturalism, and 
the Netherlands place in the larger European Union.

Table of Contents:
1. Orange Nation: Soccer and National Identity in the Netherlands  2. 
Reimagining the Nation in the the Global Age  3. Debating the Nation: 
History and the Development of Dutch Identity Discourse  4. One Nation 
without God: Secularization and the Problem of a National Culture  5. 
"Keeping Things Together": Dutch Integration Policy and the Coming of 
Multicultural Society  6. Solidarity in the Polder: Social Policy and 
the Retrenchment of the Dutch Welfare State  7. The Nation in View: 
Media Policy and the Crisis in Dutch Public Broadcasting  8. In Search 
of Distinction: Redefining the Nation in a United Europe  9. Toward a 
Cosmopolitan Nationalism?

Routledge    October 2007    368 pages
9780415957502    ~    Pb    ~    £17.99
9780415957496    ~    Hb    ~    £50.00

Order through your local bookseller or, in case of difficulty through 
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