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AbstractIn this essay, I will reflect upon what has been sociology's contribution to understanding the emergence and development of nationalism and how sociology can contribute to understanding nationalism's present and future through a property rights perspective. The essay will discuss, in particular, how historical sociological analysis of property rights and property rights regimes may be central to understanding nationalism past and future. After a general and brief discussion on the current, so‐called return of nationalism, the essay starts with discussion of some late enlightenment proto‐sociologists, suggesting that these writers actually analysed some crucial early dynamics of property and sovereignty which is central to understanding nationalism. The essay then moves on to suggests why a property rights focus might be a useful perspective to understanding nationalism in the 21st century.

AbstractThis article engages in the debate about the origins and nature of nationalism. The argument is a modernist one, but it qualifies this narrative by focusing on landed property rights as the basis for the emergence and development of nationalism. The argument complements Ernest Gellner's theory of nationalism by suggesting that nationalism was at first a landed agrarian phenomenon which later became ideologically functional to industrial society due to its property assumptions. A historical‐sociological comparative analysis of land rights and national development in the United States and Norway between 1770 and 1884 forms the basis of the argument. The key point is that nationalism emerged as a consequence of the emergence of the more widespread individual ownership of land, which spawned the idea of national popular sovereignty. This original connection to property rights made nationalism ideologically functional for industrial society.

AbstractThe early nineteenth century was a transitional time in western Europe; from the old feudal and imperial order, modern nation states and capitalism emerged. The Norwegian nation state emerged out of the flames of the Napoleonic Wars in 1814. But changes in landed property structures in the eighteenth century lay the ground for Norwegian nationalism in the early nineteenth century. This article explores early nineteenth century nationalism through a focus on property rights and the positive view on the odesrett – an allodial right to land – arguing that an examination of the positive view on the odelsrett can shed new light on Norwegian nationalism in the early nineteenth century. Such an examination suggests that the Norwegian property structure contributed to reinforcing certain property rights element in the Norwegian nationalism where ownership of landed property and national, popular sovereignty were closely interconnected.

Etter kommune- og fylkesvalet 2019 ser vi klare teikn på at det er eit distriktsopprør på gang i Noreg. Frå media høyrer vi om alt frå motstand mot vindmøller, høgare ferjeprisar og alle former for sentralisering: det vera seg kommune- og regionreform, politireform, eller nedlegging av sjukehus og studiestader. Konklusjonen i denne boka er at det er ikkje eitt, men mange distriktsopprør som ulmar her i landet. Felles for alle er at dei tappar politisk energi ifrå motsetninga mellom sentrum og periferi, som den verdsberømte norske statsvitaren Stein Rokkan i si tid påviste var ei grunnleggande konfliktlinje i norsk politikk. Forfattarane i denne boka tek utgangspunkt i denne konfliktdimensjonen, og prøver å fange og analysere kva som ligg under desse opprøra, kva dei har ført til så langt og kva dei kan føre til av endringar i framtida. Kapitla er skrivne av noen av våre fremste samfunnsforskarar innan distrikts- og ruralforskinga. Samla gir dei eit overordna og oppdatert blikk på den norske konfliktdimensjonen sentrum-periferi

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1: Rural authenticity between commodification and populism -- Rural authenticity in a context of rising nationalist and populist sentiments -- Rising inequalities: the transformation of nations and centre-periphery relations -- The content of this book -- Note -- References -- Part I: Politics of rural authenticity -- Chapter 2: City and countryside in the imagining of nations -- Introduction -- Classic nation building -- Nation deconstructing -- Discussion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3: Revisiting the politics of the rural and the Brexit vote -- Introduction -- The politics of the rural and electoral geography -- The rise and fall of rural protests -- From protest to populism in rural Britain? -- Frame continuity: rurality, populism and nationalism -- Trust, discontent and radicalisation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Populism of the dispossessed: Rethinking the link between rural authenticity and populism in the context of neoliberal regional governance -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Populism of the dispossessed and neoliberal use of rural authenticity: conceptualisation -- 4.3 Methodological approach and database -- 4.4 The prime example of radical neoliberalisation: case study introduction -- 4.5 Setomaa "Yours Authentically": the institutionalisation of a rural authenticity regime -- 4.5.1 Rural authenticity as an answer to neoliberal calls -- 4.5.2 Dispossession as a result of a neoliberalisation of rural authenticity -- 4.5.3 Populism of those dispossessed by the rural authenticity regime -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References.