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Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism
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EthnicityNationalismColonialismDecolonialityEducationGreat BritainNew NationalismCultural StudiesModern NationalismComparative LiteratureAfrican American StudiesEthnic StudiesCultural HistoryLanguage StudiesTransnational HistoryDiaspora StudyVirtual WarCultureDiasporic Movement
Modern nationalism is a language of blood and belonging, a call to arms that can lead to ethnic cleansing yet also a call to return home, as explored in Ignatieff's acclaimed trilogy. The book investigates both sides of nationalism through Ignatieff's personal odyssey from the former Yugoslavia to his adopted homeland. Ignatieff travels to former Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Germany, Quebec, Kurdistan, and Northern Ireland to examine modern nationalism at its worst.
With The Warrior's Honor and Virtual War, Blood & Belonging forms part of the acclaimed trilogy by Michael Ignatieff on the face of modern conflict. In 1993 Michael Ignatieff set out on a journey to the former Yugoslavia, the Ukraine, Germany, Quebec, Kurdistan and Northern Ireland in order to explore the many faces of modern nationalism at its worst. Modern nationalism is a language of blood: a call to arms that can end in the horror of ethnic cleansing. But it is also a language of belonging: a call to come home. In Blood & Belonging Michael Ignatieff explores both sides of nationalism in a personal odyssey that begins in the nightmare of the former Yugoslavia and ends with his return to his adopted homeland, Great Britain's disunited kingdom.