13. Gender, race, xenophobia and nationalism
13. Sexe, race, xénophobie, nationalisme

Tuesday, 8 August, 9:00-12:00
Mardi 8 août de 9h à 12h

Building A, Auditorium 3

Organiser:
Ida Blom, Norway

Discussant:
Catherine Hall, United Kingdom

Introduction:
The formation of nations and of nation-states during the late 19th and 20th century gave rise to conflicts over principles of inclusion in and/or exclusion from the nation. Generally, the norm for total inclusion in the nation was the white middle-class man. Consequently, gender, race and class, sometimes further complicated by ethnical and religious identifications, were central fault lines in the process of creating nations. Strategies chosen varied from xenophobic total exclusion to partial or full inclusion in the national community. Myths and symbols created an atmosphere prone to giving preference to certain individuals as national citizens with full political and social rights. Conflicts over duties to the nation, for instance military service and the obligation to bear children, and rights in the nation, such as political, social and economic citizenship, created tensions, sometimes outright confrontations along gender and race divides.

The aim of the workshop is to discuss the relative importance of gender, race and class and the entertwinement of these three categories in the creation of nations. Papers will focus on historical moments with critical importance to the profile of national identities and on strategies chosen to mould a coherent national community.

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Participants:

• Helen Bradford, South Africa
  Competing Versions of an African Nation: South Africa c. 1920-1930
• Geoff Eley, USA
  Gender, Nationalism and the Boundaries of Citizenship in Germany, 1890-1920
• Keith Jeffery, Northern Ireland
  Nationalisms and Gender – Ireland in the Time of the Great War 1914-1918
• Marilyn Lake, USA
  The Ambiguities of Nationalism for Feminism in a Settler Society: the Issue of Complicity
• Mrinilina Sinha, USA
  The Happy Marriage of Feminism and Nationalism: Gender and National Indian Modernity in Late Colonial India
• Allison Wilke, United Kingdom
  Women and National Identity. Representations of Arab Women in the Arab and Zionist Palestinian Presses, 1929-1939

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