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Analysis: Can Nationalism be a Force for Good?

06/06/2022

Can Nationalism be a Force for Good?

BBC Radio 4 - Analysis, Can Nationalism be a Force for Good?

Charting the birth of the nation state and if nationalism can exist in a healthy form.

David Edmonds charts the birth of the nation state and asks whether nationalism can exist in a healthy form.

Arguments over the value of nationalism seem to have been raging for centuries, even though the nation state as we know it has only become widespread in the last two hundred years.

In this programme, David Edmonds tracks the emergence of the nation state and the debate surrounding it. From post-colonial Ghana to contemporary Britain, we hear what nationalism has meant to different people in different contexts, as well as the social and philosophical principles that underlie it.

Contributors:

Professor Michael Billig, Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University,

Professor Richard Bourke, professor of the history of political thought, University of Cambridge. 

Elizabeth Ohene, former Minister of State in Ghana. 

Dr Sandra Obradovic, Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University.

Professor Tariq Modood, director of the Bristol University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship.

Dr Sarah Fine, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge  

Producer: Nathan Gower
Studio Manager: James Beard
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Production Co-ordinators: Maria Ogundele and Helena Warwick-Cross

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