Aging Nationalism: Between Blood and Values in Contemporary Taiwan

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages, Institute of International Affairs and The Faculty of Social Work introduce:

Open lecture by Adam Horálek:

Aging Nationalism: Between Blood and Values in Contemporary Taiwan

Aging Nationalism is a theory explaining how societal aging changes the fundamental system of values in nationalism. The transition from "rooted nationalism" towards "humanistic nationalism" is not only fundamental change but affects intergenerational relations. It is a transcendental process which can be identified in any aging society, but the case of Taiwan shows clearly the distinction between the two. The ideological fight between “Chineseness” and “Taiwaneseness” must thus be understood not only as battle between old and new, Chinese and Taiwanese, communist and capitalist, dictatorial and democratic, but also between rooted and humanistic, external and internal, given and created, inherited and merited. 

The lecture is given in English.

Adam Horálek (PhD anthropology) is Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Central European and Balkan Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic.

Where and when: Veröld, 2nd floor, 19 November, 12-13:15