No. 277 / March 1996
Bullets and borders
The nation-state in tatters
Letter
from this month's editor
- Bullets and borders
Nikki van der Gaag explores the murky world of national identity and finds the nation-state on its deathbed.
- Definitions
Nation; State; Nation-State; Nationalism.
- This land is my land
Poems from an Israeli and a Palestinian.
- In search of a new Africa
Ikaweba Bunting has a new vision for Africa; one that lies beyond the nation-state.
- Ruslan's war
Chechnya's youngest combatant died in battle at the age of 13. Olivia Ward asks what he died for.
- The Angry Scot
A tirade from Alison Napier.
- FACTS - The State of Nations
- Spitting in the soup
The people of Quebec are battling for the soul of their country. Richard Swift reports.
- The Hand of God
Amaranta Wright sheds light on a macabre Argentinian obsession.
- Simply - a history of the Nation-State
- Mother India
Urvashi Butalia shows how Hindu nationalism sets women on a pedestal
- and then locks them firmly in the kitchen.
- Springs of hope
The town of Tuzla has always kept the flame of multiculturalism alive. Tony Samphier talks to its people.
- Books
- Letters
- Letter from Russia
- Update
- The NI Interview with Pandurang Hegde
- Reviews: plus Victor Serge classic
- Curiosities
- Endpiece by Lucy Davis
- Country profile: Cuba
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