"Focussing on selected Asian cases, this book argues that nationalisms have always contained political economics as well as cultural politics. Placing nation-states centrally in our understanding of modern capitalism, it challenges the 'globalization' thesis. Rather than eclipse, nations and nationalsims have undergone changes under the impact of neoliberalism since the 1970s."--BOOK JACKET.

1 Introduction: Nationalisms and Their Understandings in Historical Perspective Radhika DesaiExplorations2 Nationalism and Poverty: Discourses of Development and Culture in Twentieth Century India Sumit Sarkar3 The Cultural Career of the Japanese Economy: Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms in Historical Perspective Laura Hein4 From Post-Imperial to Late Communist Nationalism: Historical Change in Chinese Nationalism from May Fourth to the 1990s Guogang Wu5 Radical Islamism and Failed Developmentalism Saeed RahnemaThe Plot Thickens6 From 'Class' to 'Social Strata': Grasping the Social Totality in Reform-Era China Ann Anagnost7 Beyond Bandung: Developmental Nationalism to (Multi)Cultural Nationalism in Indonesia Joshua Barker8 Islamic Cultural Nationalism and Gender Politics in Iran Haideh Moghissi9 Hermeneutics against Instrumental Reason: National and Post-National Islam in the 20th Century Mohammed A. Bamyeh10 Nationalism and the Radical Intelligentsia in Thailand Thongchai WinichakulExceptions that Prove the Rule?11 From Islamisation to Shariatisation: Cultural Transnationalism in Pakistan Farzana Shaikh12 A Nationalism Without Politics? The Illiberal Consequences of Liberal Institutions in Sri Lanka Johathan Spencer13 From Developmental Nationalism to the End of Nation-state in Iraq? Martin Bunton14 Conclusion: From Developmental to Cultural Nationalisms Radhika Desai