Tom Nairn (Author of The Break Up of Britain)

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Tom Nairn

Born

in Freuchie, Fife, Scotland

June 02, 1932

Died

January 21, 2023

Genre

Nationalism, Politics

Influences

Antonio Gramsci, Robert Musil, Iris Murdoch ...more

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Tom Nairn is a Scottish political theorist of nationalism. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.

Nairn attended Dunfermline High School and Edinburgh College of Art before graduating from the University of Edinburgh with an MA in Philosophy in 1956. During the 1960s, he taught at various institutions including the University of Birmingham (1965-6), coming to prominence in the occupation of Hornsey College of Art (1967鈥�70), after which he was dismissed. He worked at the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam from 1972鈥�76, and then as a journalist and TV researcher (mainly for Channel 4 and Scottish Television) before a year at the Central European University with Ernest Gelln ...more

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	The Break Up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism 3.92 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1977 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy 3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Faces of Nationalism: Janus Revisited 3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Britain: New Labour and the Return of Scotland 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Left against Europe? (Pelican books) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Auld Enemies it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The International Journal Of The Humanities, volume 8 number 4 by Tom Nairn, Mary Kalantzis really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Old Nations, Auld Enemies, New Times by Tom Nairn, Pete Ramand (Editor), Jamie Maxwell (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terrorism by Tom Nairn, Paul James liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	螘胃谓喂魏喂蟽渭蠈蟼, 慰蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓慰蟼螜伪谓蠈蟼: 螤伪蟿蟻喂蠅蟿喂蟽渭蠈蟼, 未喂蔚胃谓喂蟽渭蠈蟼魏伪喂蔚胃谓喂魏蠈味萎蟿畏渭伪 by Tom Nairn, Eugene Kamenka, Michael L枚wy liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is almost as difficult for a Scots intellectual to get out of the Kailyard as to live without an alias. The dilemma is not just an intellectual's one... the whole thing is related to the much larger field of popular culture. For Kailyard is popular in Scotland. It is recognisably intertwined with that prodigious array of Kitsch symbols, slogans, banners, war-cries, knick-knacks, music-hall heroes, icons, conventional sayings and sentiments (not a few of them 'pithy') which have for so long defended the name of 'Scotland' to the world. Annie S. Swan and A.J. Cronin provided no more than the decent outer garb for this vast tartan monster. In their work the thing trots along doucely enough, on a lead. But it is something else to be with it (e.g.) in a London pub on International night, or in the crowd at the annual Military Tattoo in front of Edinburgh Castle. How intolerably vulgar! What unbearable, crass, mindless philistinism! One knows that Kitsch is a large constituent of mass popular culture in every land: but this is ridiculous!”
― Tom Nairn, The Break Up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism

tags: kailyard, kitsch, popular-culture, scotland, tartan-monster

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“How may we describe the general outlines of nationalist development, seen as 'general historical process'? Here, by far the most important point is that nationalism is as a whole quite incomprehensible outside the context of that process's uneven development. The subjective point of nationalist ideology is, of course, always the suggestion that one nationality is as good as another. But the real point has always lain in the objective fact that, manifestly, one nationality has never been even remotely as good as as, or equal to, the others which figure in its world view. Indeed, the purpose of the subjecivity (nationalist myths) can never be anything but protest against the brutal fact: it is mobilisation against the unpalatable, humanly unacceptable, truth of grossly uneven development.”
― Tom Nairn, The Break Up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism

tags: nationalism, uneven-development

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