Beginning here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnogenesis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_date_of_formation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_constitutions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_nation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_state Defining the Nation State Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country’s “formation” cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the

Professor Carveth teaches Sociology and Social & Political Thought at York University, Glendon College, in Toronto. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis (IPA) and a member Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association. He serves on the faculties of the Toronto Institute

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To launch into my series on Identity (Politics), I am going to rely heavily on Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development. At the heart of anarchism there is a claim about the developmental psychology of human beings. It concerns the universal potential for human creativity to flourish if developed without

https://www.warandgender.com/ 1 A puzzle: the cross-cultural consistency of gender roles in war Introduction There has been much scholarship on women in war, but hardly any on gender in war. The sex-gender discourse – that sex is biological and fixed, while gender is cultural and flexible – is flawed because biology

Jesse Cohn and Shawn Wilbur – What’s Wrong With Postanarchism? https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/postanarchism/cohn-and-wilbur-whats-wrong-with-postanarchism/ From 2007 This text is where I am going to begin. I probably wasn’t aware of post-anarchism when this was written and if I was, I certainly wasn’t familiar with Shawn Wilbur, Jesse Cohn, or any of the writers

[Ben Burgis Class] Proudhon’s System of Economic Contradictions: Chapter VII. Fifth Period. — Police, Or Taxation. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-system-of-economical-contradictions-or-the-philosophy-of-poverty.pdf Chapter begins with an idealistic notion of historical teleology… Proudhon considers state functionaries to be their own sort of economic class, the class of non-producers. He claims that this class must be distinguished

Bryan Tucker – Authoritarian Character Structure https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bryan-tucker-authoritarian-character-structure This essay from 2018 that was published in Fifth Estate covers the views of Wilhelm Reich and Erich Fromm on authoritarian character and/or personality. I am more familiar with Fromm’s views than Reich’s, but neither are new to me. The basic idea is