Abstract Civic nationalism is a weak vessel for secession. Nonetheless, contemporary Scottish nationalism has proven unusually successful, using the characteristically civic marker of political ideology as its signature boundary mechanism. Because a civic form of nationalism funnels toward civic markers of national identity, nationalist elites define Scotland as social democratic and England as neoliberal. This symbolic cultivation of a Scottish social democratic essence is deeply ethnic, however, through a mythological fusion of ideology with genealogy characteristic of ethnic myths of descent. Scotland’s “civic” nationalism points up the confused nature of the ethnic-civic dichotomy itself.

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分裂的“公民”之路：作为当代苏格兰民族边界标志的政治意识形态

摘要 公民民族主义是分裂的软肋。尽管如此，当代苏格兰民族主义已被证明异常成功，使用政治意识形态的典型公民标记作为其标志性的边界机制。由于民族主义的一种公民形式倾向于民族认同的公民标志，民族主义精英将苏格兰定义为社会民主主义，将英格兰定义为新自由主义。然而，这种对苏格兰社会民主本质的象征性培养具有深刻的民族性，是通过意识形态与民族血统神话特征的谱系学的神话融合。苏格兰的“公民”民族主义指出了种族-公民二分法本身的混乱性质。