CIAO DATE: 10/02

Secession, History and the Social Sciences

Bruno Coppieters & Michel Huysseune (eds.)

VUB Brussels University Press

2002

 

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction, by Bruno Coppieters, Ivan M. Myhul and Michel Huysseune (PDF, 26 pgs, 85 Kb)

• Some Questions of Terminology
• The Institutional Context and Instrumentality of Scientific Knowledge
• Choosing between Disciplines
• Tr uthfulness and Moral Responsibility
• Mythological Knowledge
• Notes

1. Ukrainian Social Knowledge and Secession, by Ivan M. Myhul (PDF, 32 pgs, 106 Kb)

   • Introduction
   • The Emergence of Ukrainian Social Knowledge
   • Ukrainian Historiography as Social Knowledge: the Early Stages
   • Ukrainian Historiography as Social Knowledge: the Pre-Soviet Stage
   • The Institution of Ukrainian Social Knowledge in the Early Soviet Era
   • The Demise of Early Soviet-Era Ukrainian Social Knowledge
   • The Specifics of Soviet Ukrainian Historiography as Social Knowledge
   • The Emergence of an Alternative Perspective in Soviet Ukrainian Social Knowledge
   • The Return to 'Normalcy' in Soviet Ukrainian Social Knowledge
   • Political Changes in Soviet Ukraine
   • A New Reassessment of Ukrainian Social Knowledge
   • Ukrainian Independence
   • Contemporary Social Knowledge and Politics
   • Conclusion
   • Notes

2. 'The Patience of a Nation is Measured in Centuries'. National Revival in Tatarstan and Historiography, by Alexei Zverev (PDF, 20 pgs, 68 Kb)

   • Inroduction
   • The Three Attempts at a Tatar National Revival
   • The Changing Fortunes of the Tatar National Movement
   • The Contingency of the Tatar Nationalist Mobilization - Historical Outline
   • Tatar Historiography in the Soviet Period
   • The Uses of History Made by Migrant Tatar Nationalists: the Case of Gayaz Iskhaki
   • Tatar Historiography During and After Perestroika
   • Conclusions
   • Notes

3. In Defence of the Homeland: Intellectuals and the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict, by Bruno Coppieters (PDF, 28 pgs, 98 Kb)

   • The History of the Conflict
   • Factors at Work
     • The Privileges of a Titular Nation
     • The Politicization of History and the Social Sciences
     • Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past
     • Orthodox and Unorthodox Nationalism
   • Looking Back
   • Notes

4. Nationalism and History: Rewriting the Chechen National Past, by Moshe Gammer (PDF, 24 pgs, 96 Kb)

   • The 'Three-Hundred-Year-Long War'
   • The Chain of Attempts at Genocide
   • Notes
5. The Disintegration of the Yugoslav Intellectual Community, by Robert Stallaerts (PDF, 18 pgs, 64 Kb)
   • Introduction
   • The Academies of Science and Arts
   • The Critical Intelligentsia of the Praxis group
   • The Debate on the Memorandum of the Serbian Academy
   • In Place of a Conclusion
   • Notes
6. Bargaining from Strength: Historical Writing and Political Autonomy in Late-Twentieth-Century Quebec, by Ronald Rudin (PDF, 20 pgs, 66 Kb)
   • Introduction
   • Society and Historical Writing in pre-1960 Quebec
     • The Social and Political Context
     • Writing a 'Different' Past
   • Social Change, Political Autonomy, and the Search for a 'Normal' Past
     • Quebec Society after the Quiet Revolution
     • Writing a 'Normal' Past
   • Revisionism, Objectivity and Autonomy
   • Notes
7. Reconstructions of the Past in Belgium and Flanders, by Louis Vos (PDF, 28 pgs, 96 Kb)
   • The Legitimization of the Belgian Nation
   • From Belgian Cultural Nationalism to Flemish Sub-Nationalism
   • Flemish Identity Revisited
   • Belgium versus Flanders
   • Linguistic Borders and Federalization
   • Historiography in a Federalized Institutional Setting
   • Conclusion
   • Notes
8. Imagined Geographies: Political and Scientific Discourses on Italy's North-South Divide, by Michel Huysseune (PDF, 20 pgs, 74 Kb)
   • Rejecting/Reforming the Italian State
   • A Padanian Identity and Italy's North-South divide
   • Diverging Visions of the Italian State and its History
   • Conclusion
   • Notes
9. Intellectual Discourses in the Taiwan Independence Movement, by Xiaokun Song (PDF, 22 pgs, 72 Kb)
   • Background
     • Territory
     • Population and Ethnic Composition
   • The Taiwan Independence Movement
   • The Role of Intellectuals in the TIM
   • The Pro-Independence Discourse
     • From the Perspective of History
     • From the Perspective of International Law
     • From the Perspective of Anthropological and Ethnic Studies
     • From the Perspective of Political Science
   • Conclusions and Avenues for Further Research
   • Notes
10. An Endless Cycle of Secessionism. Intellectuals and Separatist Movements in Nigeria, by Raphael Chijioke Njoku (PDF, 26 pgs, 92 Kb)
    • Separatist Movements in Nigeria: An Overview
    • The Institutional Setting for Scientific Research on Secession
    • Intellectuals in Nigeria
    • A Generation Shift
    • Self-Determination
    • Social Justice and Good Governance
    • Economic Discrimination and Mismanagement
    • Minority Rights and Autonomy
    • Conclusion
    • Notes

Conclusion, by Michel Huysseune and Bruno Coppieters (PDF, 22 pgs, 66 Kb)

• Ten Cases Compared: an Overview
• Science as a Social Institution and a Political Tool
• The Choice of Scientific Disciplines and Arguments
• Objectivity and Moral Responsibility
• Notes

Notes on Contributors (PDF, 4 pgs, 17 Kb)

Index (PDF, 8 pgs, 31 Kb)