Blood and Belonging

Synopsis: Michael Ignatieff examines nationalism in the modern world.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 50 min.
Year of production: 1993
Availability: Sale; 2004 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p) per episode or £750.00 the series
Notes: Broadcast on BBC2 from 11/11/93.
Subjects: Politics & government; Sociology
Keywords: Canada; Germany; Kurds; nationalism; Northern Ireland; Quebec; Ukraine; Yugoslavia

Producer

Colin Thomas

Cast

Michael Ignatieff

Title: Yugoslavia: the road to nowhere
Synopsis: 1: Travelling through a war zone in the former Yugoslavia, Ignatieff meets the warlords on both sides of the Serbian and Croatian front line.
Title: Kurdistan
Synopsis: 2: Among the Kurds Ignatieff sees their suffering at the hands of Iraqi, Iranian and Turkish forces.
Title: Germany: return of the repressed
Synopsis: 3: In the reunified Germany, Ignatieff examines the concept of what 'Fatherland' means to Germans from both sides of the former divide.
Title: Ukraine: lifting the joke
Synopsis: 4: In the Ukraine, where his great-grandfather owned land, Ignatieff finds a land once devastated by famine and still haunted by memories of Stalin.
Title: Quebec: masters in our own house
Synopsis: 5: Looks at two nationalistic conflicts in Quebec, contrasting the politics of language dividing the French and the English, and the Cree people's claim of nation status in the north of the province.
Title: Northern Ireland: mirror, mirror
Synopsis: 6: Looks at the Loyalists in Northern Ireland, whose values hold up a distorted mirror to Britishness and who feel abandoned by the rest of the UK.

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