Patriotism: Call for Essays

[Anne Hieber <hieber at usfca.edu>]

Peace Review, A Journal of Social Justice



Call for Essays: PATRIOTISM

Author Deadline:  July 15, 2003



What is Patriotism in light of post-9/11 nationalism and imperialism? This
is a question not merely for Americans but for people around the world.
Patriotism has had a continuity over the decades, if not the centuries. But
in recent times, it may take on a new significance.  People are faced with
moral decisions about how to affiliate with the nation and its governing
bodies. While long a bastion of the right, more recently the left has begun
talking about how peace and dissent are patriotic. This complicates the
meaning of patriotism. Are people patriotic by virtue of loving or
affiliating with their nation but not their government (against which they
instead dissent)? What, then, is the nation?  In the American context, it
provokes questions such as (1) How does anti-Americanism abroad
conceptualize its object of disdain or hatred, and is it the same object of
love or affiliation of the dissenting American patriot; (2) How does
anti-Americanism within America's domestic minorities conceptualize itself.
Many of the left, dissenting patriots, might say they support American
ideals (not practice), the American people (not government), or an America
that does not yet exist but toward which we must all strive. But others
complain that American "ideals" can be seen in its practices, which have
been very unkind to its various Others; for them, there is a *culture*, not
simply a formal state apparatus, that promotes repression. Patriotism, they
argue, is typically backward looking, pointing to heroes and national
exploits, not forward-looking; what are the implications of this?  These
considerations suggest other possible issues, such as: (1) patriotism's
relationship to the imperial nation; (2) the role of the Patriot Acts 1 and
2 and related measures from history, such as McCarthyism and COINTELPRO;
(3) whether patriotism has a color or gender or a class; (4) the role of
the flag and flag waving in patriotism; (5) whether patriotism as
allegiance to a nation is passé in the postmodern world; (6) how the media
and corporations define patriotism in their own practices; and (7)
patriotism's relationship to war and militarism.



Peace Review is a quarterly, multidisciplinary, transnational journal of
research and analysis, focusing on the current issues and controversies
that underlie the promotion of a more peaceful world.  We define peace
research to include human rights, development, ecology, culture, race,
gender and related issues.  Our task is to present the results of this
research and thinking in short (2500-3500 words), accessible and
substantial essays.



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Anne Hieber
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