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Tom Nairn was born on 2 June, 1932 in Freuchie, Fife, Scotland, is a Scottish political theorist (1932–2023). Discover Tom Nairn's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 2 June, 1932
Birthday 2 June
Birthplace Freuchie, Fife, Scotland
Date of death 21 January, 2023
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Nationality Scotland

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1932

Thomas Cunningham Nairn (2 June 1932 – 21 January 2023) was a Scottish political theorist and academic.

He was an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.

He was known as an essayist and a supporter of Scottish independence.

Nairn was born on 2 June 1932 in Freuchie, Fife, the son of a primary school headmaster.

1956

He attended Dunfermline High School and the Edinburgh College of Art before graduating from the University of Edinburgh with an MA in Philosophy in 1956.

1957

He was awarded a British Council scholarship in 1957 to the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he stayed for some time.

As well as becoming fluent in Italian, it was during this sojourn that he began to transcend the limits of orthodox Marxism, particularly while exploring the writings of Antonio Gramsci.

"If you were a Marxist [in Britain] you were a Stalinist or a Trotskyist," he later explained, "but I was insulated against that by my Italian experience... there was a much wider intellectual, cultural atmosphere that one could go on breathing."

1960

During the 1960s Nairn studied at the University of Dijon (now the University of Burgundy), worked in warehouses as a nightwatchman, and taught at various institutions including the University of Birmingham (1965–66).

1962

From 1962, with Perry Anderson in New Left Review, he developed a thesis (the "Nairn-Anderson thesis") to explain why Britain did not develop in a 'normal' way, which was defined as the continental European movement to anti-clericalism and Republicanism since the 1789 French Revolution.

1968

Nairn came to national prominence as a lecturer at Hornsey College of Art during 1968, where he became involved in a student occupation.

The occupation offered a major critique of the education system at the time.

After the authorities regained control, he was dismissed.

He was then absent from secure university posts for three decades.

1972

He was at the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, from 1972 to 1976, but resigned when his efforts to steer it towards becoming a pan-European thinktank failed.

1973

By contrast, Nairn was long an advocate of European integration, an argument he first put forward in The Left Against Europe (1973), when leftist opinion in the UK was very much against the idea.

1977

An anthology of NLR articles, The Break-Up of Britain (1977, revised 1982) is the best known of Nairn's books on the nationalism theme.

It is a Marxist critique of the emergence of worldwide nationalism.

Essentially, Nairn contends that imperialism from the core countries (Western Europe) amongst the peripheral nations (Africa, Asia, Australia, etc.) motivated the peripheral elites to mobilise their exploited masses.

As such, they created powerful myths and stories based on local artefacts and local happenings.

The peripheral intelligentsia, as he denoted them, were inspired by both romanticism and populism.

In a chapter devoted to him, Enoch Powell is placed in both traditions.

1988

His republican inclinations meant that his The Enchanted Glass (1988) was one of the earliest serious modern investigations into the British monarchy from an abolitionist perspective.

It won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award.

Here and elsewhere Nairn used the term 'Ukania' to suggest the irrational and Ruritanian nature of the British constitutional monarchy.

His original source for the term is the nickname "Kakania" that Robert Musil uses for the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy in The Man Without Qualities.

1990

He was an advocate of Scottish independence as well as devolution of power to the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly and criticised the 1990s–2000s Blair Labour government for not giving those bodies enough power.

While critical of Scottish elites, Nairn considered that Scotland's economic potential had been limited by the concentration of power in London in combination with what he claimed was the archaic nature of the British state.

1994

He then worked on and off as a journalist and TV researcher (mainly for Channel 4 and Scottish Television, Glasgow) before a year at the Central European University with Ernest Gellner (1994–95) and then setting up and running a Masters course on Nationalism at the University of Edinburgh (1995–99).

2001

In 2001 he was invited to take up an Innovation Professorship in Nationalism and Cultural Diversity at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia and worked with Paul James.

2009

Returning to France and then Britain, he was fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study of Durham University (2009).

Nairn was considered one of the key thinkers of the British New Left, although he expressed dissent with what he saw as its generally nationalist nostalgia.

In 2009, Nairn was elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

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2010

He left in January 2010 when in his late 70s.

2011

An updated edition of The Enchanted Glass (published by Verso) appeared in 2011.

Tom Nairn lived in Scotland with his long-term partner Millicent Petrie, and had two stepchildren.

He died on 21 January 2023, at the age of 90, following complications arising from a fall.

2016

Nairn's ideas on nationalism were in the news during Britain's protracted Brexit negotiations from 2016, and Scotland's desire to remain in the European Union; his major works have been reprinted.