1 Acknowledgements 2 Introduction: Turning the Tables on Procrustes Part 3 Part I: The Color and Shape of a Cyberspatial World Chapter 4 Chapter 1: From Bibles to Bollywood: Mass Media, Identity, and the State Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Media Unbound: The Internet, Cyberspace, and Nationalism on the Web Chapter 6 Chapter 3: New World (Dis)Orders: National Identity and Ethnic Poli-tics in the Global Era Part 7 Part II: Homo-Cybericus-Genus & Species Chapter 8 Chapter 4: Electronic Irredentists: Albanians Seeking Unity in Digital Space and Virtual Places Chapter 9 Chapter 5: Post-Imperial Digerati: Near Abroad Russians Transcending Local Barriers via Global Technologies Chapter 10 Chapter 6: Cybernetic Vanguard: The Roma's Use of the Web to Protect a Minority under Siege Chapter 11 Chapter 7: Virtual Prophets: Ummahists and the Construction of a New Imagined Community 12 Afterword: Towards a Cybernational Future? 13 Bibliography 14 About the Author
Robert A. Saunders is assistant professor in the Department of History, Economics, and Politics at the Farmingdale State College, SUNY.
Intriguing, topical, balanced, and well-supported by empirical
information, Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace will likely become an
important book on the contemporary evolution of nationalism.
*Karim H.Karim, Carleton University in Ottawa*
Clear and comprehensive, essential reading for students and
scholars alike, an authoritative analysis of nationalism and
nationality in the era of the Internet, Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace
fills a critical gap in our hitherto anecdotal understanding of the
use of the Web by cyber-elites and peoples without countries. Too
sophisticated a scholar to merely celebrate the new ecumene of
cyberspace, Saunders shows that the Internet is not neutral but a
double-edged sword. He analyzes how subaltern nations, national
minorities, immigrant diasporas, and other groups without
real-world territories are able to bridge borders, oceans, and time
electronically to pursue their identity projects.
*Wolf Schäfer, Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies, and
Globality Studies Journal*
Drawing on a variety of disciplines in innovative and exciting
ways, Robert A. Saunders has produced a delightfully written and
provocatively argued book that will challenge many views of how
national identity is produced and reproduced in today's world.
*Alexander J. Motyl, Rutgers University-Newark*
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