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Sentiments of solidarity: Varying conceptions of nationhood in Turkey Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Turgut Keskintürk, Tuna Kuyucu
Studies on nationalism have recently transitioned from macro-level analyses of large structural factors to micro-level examinations, emphasizing nationalism as a set of cultural and political beliefs held by individuals. Such works that use opinion measures to explore heterogeneity in national self-understandings show that nationalist beliefs distribute among the public in particular and non-random
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Everyday nationhood and religion in the context of migration: The case of Lithuanian Catholics in Norway Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Eglė Kesylytė‐Allix
In this article, I explore the relationship between religion and nationhood among contemporary Lithuanian migrants in Norway. The central puzzle is the lack of an open national feeling in the religious setting. However, academic literature has well documented the tight connection between the Catholic Church and Lithuanian nationhood. Interpreting the empirical data from qualitative interviews and participant
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Thor's hammer: How warfare enables and disables nation formation Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 John Hutchinson
Scholars have neglected at a theoretical level the structuring role of warfare in the rise of nations and states. I argue that war‐making has been a constitutive force in the emergence and persistence of many national identities in four ways. First, wars can act as ‘turning points’ for good or ill to become national mythomoteurs. Second, they can create enduring popular we–they stereotypes against
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Issue Information - TOC Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2024-02-26
No abstract is available for this article.
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Can institutions explain mass violence? Amhara ‘settler’ discourse and Ethiopia's ethnic federalism Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Kaleb Demerew
This paper begins by reviewing rational choice institutionalism's explanation of how political institutions incentivise patronage networks emphasising ethnic cleavage. Acknowledging the limits of rationalist institutionalism in explaining societal norm constructions and mass behaviour, the paper then adopts discursive institutionalism to analyse the social affects of institutional design. The case
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Ethics and the state: Israel's nationality law and the revision of a revolution Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Eyal Chowers
In 2018, 70 years after it was founded, the State of Israel accepted a new nationality law, one which reshaped the identity of the state. Supporters of this constitutional law argue that it is necessary since the Jewish-national character of the state is under threat, and since liberal-democratic principles and policies have acquired undesired dominance in public life. The nationality law, however
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Dancing with the devil? Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and the articulation of a new political divide in France Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Lise Esther Herman, Marta Lorimer
This paper investigates how political challengers articulate new political divides in European political party systems and with what implications for representative democracy. Focusing on the case of France and the discourse and practices of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the paper identifies three strategies these actors have used to articulate a new political division beyond Left and Right: the
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Economic decline, ethnonationalism and civil war onset Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Marc Scarcelli
Within the scholarship on the causes of civil wars, GDP per capita represents a strong and robust variable. Less attention, however, is paid to the role of economic decline. When it is included at all, scholars tend to consider it only in the period just prior to the onset of war. This paper argues that the impact of economic decline has been underestimated, for in addition to its short-term effects
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The Yugoslav War that was not theirs: The case of national minority millennials Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Karolina Lendák-Kabók
This paper delves into the experiences of ethnic Hungarian millennials in Vojvodina, Serbia, who came of age during the tumultuous Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s. Despite their non-involvement in the conflict, they grappled with substantial challenges arising from surging nationalism that impacted both society and their personal lives. The study illuminates the unexplored suffering of members of this demographic
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Radicalization to the right, secular (ish) pandemic politics and the normalization of the Greek Cypriot far right Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Yiannos Katsourides, Leandros Savvides
One of the many dimensions of the global tussle surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic has been the rise of right-wing radicalization. In this article, we investigate whether the pandemic offered an opportunity for the Greek Cypriot far-right party, ELAM, to increase its visibility as an opposition force and in what ways. We also explore the transformations in populist rhetoric and practices in the Republic
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Issue Information - TOC Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-12-18
No abstract is available for this article.
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Nationalism and the energy transition: The case of the SNP Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Owen Tutt, Harald Heubaum
While fossil fuels are a well-researched element of nationalist discourse, the relationship between nationalism and renewable energy has not yet been adequately explored. We address this gap by investigating the impact of the energy transition on the Scottish National Party's (SNP) discourse between 1983 and 2021. Through an analysis of SNP manifestos and speeches, we discursively trace the evolution
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Cultural and linguistic nationalism in the Esperanto movement: The Catalan case (1887–1928) Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Pilar Requejo De Lamo
The emergence of Esperantism in 1887 coincided with a nationalist movement in Catalonia that was gaining momentum. During the first decades of the 20th century, both phenomena became deeply intertwined, as Catalan nationalists embraced the constructed language and used the transnational network that developed around it to revindicate their cultural particularities. This article explores how the relationship
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Nationalist secessionism and global order: A comparison of the dynamics and impact of secession movements in Africa and Europe Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo, Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Dominic Degraft Arthur
Scholars generally argue that nationalism and secessionism pose important dilemmas for national, regional and global order. Yet, there is inadequate discussion on the varied contexts of nationalist secessionist movements and how they influence or are influenced by domestic and global forces. Addressing this concern, this article undertakes a three-case comparison of the Western Togoland separatist
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The war in Ukraine and the ambivalent figure of ‘Babushka’: Intersectional nation-building and the delegitimisation/legitimisation of war on YouTube Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Marja Lönnroth-Olin, Satu Venäläinen, Rusten Menard, Teemu Pauha, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti
In this article, we demonstrate how international social-media discussions offer a platform for taking a stance on the war in Ukraine, redrawing national boundaries and legitimising their defence. We do so by analysing data that consist of comments triggered by a viral YouTube video depicting an encounter between an ageing civilian woman, labelled ‘Babushka Z’, and a Ukrainian soldier. Using a critical
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The new Spanish far-right movement: Crisis, national priority and ultranationalist charity Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Francisco Jiménez Aguilar, Antonio Álvarez-Benavides
During the Great Recession, a group of identitarian nativist associations emerged in Spain, which, over time, gave shape to a new social movement: the Cultural Associations of National Aid (Asociaciones Culturales de Ayuda Nacional). Based on a digital ethnography and critical discursive analysis, this paper aims to examine their worldview and ‘repertoire of contention’, focusing on the latest events
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Persian orientalism: Raciolinguistic ideologies and the construction of ‘Iranianness’ Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Ahmad Mohammadpour
This article excavates the Eurocentric roots of Iranian nationalist discourse, which emerged from the political and intellectual trajectories of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Premised on the epistemic privilege of the Persian language, a selective remembrance of the past, and forging an internal Other, I contend that this raciolinguistic ideology equated Persianness with Iranianness and naturalised
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Mind the gap: The nation form and the Kohn dichotomy Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Jaakko Heiskanen
The dichotomy between civic Western nationalism and ethnic non-Western nationalism (also known as “the Kohn dichotomy” after the historian of nationalism Hans Kohn) remains one of the most influential frameworks for understanding nationalism. It is also one of the most controversial: The binary schema has been criticised not only for its conceptual inconsistencies but also for entrenching an ethnocentric
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Mill and Acton on liberty, nationality and multinational states Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Tim Beaumont
Mill's System of Logic (1843) indicates that the definition of ‘nationality’ he offered in Considerations on Representative Government (1861) is not a throwaway comment but a carefully considered causal hypothesis tailored to his politico-ethological research programme. This matters because Lord Acton's critique of Mill's claim that free institutions are almost impossible in multinational states ignored
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Ukraine at war: Baseline identity and social construction Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Andrew Wilson
Ukrainians' resilience in the face of Russia's 2022 invasion can be explained by cumulative identity change through successive revolutions: the Orange Revolution in 2004, the Maidan Revolution or Revolution of Dignity in 2013–2014 and the current as yet unnamed war. The two phases of the war, from 2014 and 2022, have accelerated both the civic and the social construction of Ukrainian identity. Post-post-Soviet
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National identities, European identity and cosmopolitanism: The case of female golf fans at the 2019 Solheim Cup Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Alan Bairner, Niamh Kitching, Stuart Whigham, Ali Bowes
The aim of this paper is to consider the relationship between sport and identity formation by examining testimonies of 24 British women who attended the Solheim Cup golf tournament in 2019 to support a transnational team made up of professional European women players. Relatively little is known about the effects of transnational sports teams on identity formation, not least because such teams are themselves
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Careless whisper: Political elite discourses activate national identities for far-right voting preferences Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Antonia C May, Christian S Czymara
While exclusionary national identities are widespread among Europeans, relatively few people vote for the far right in most countries. Thus, an exclusionary identity in many cases does not lead to voting for the most nativist types of parties. We explain this empirical puzzle by showing that these identities need to be activated to become behaviourally relevant. To this end, we analyse longitudinal
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Ethnic empowering policies and postcolonial political exclusion in the British empire: An analysis of ethnic police recruitment and communal legislative representation Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Tay Jeong, Choong Kyo Jeong
Does ethnic empowerment under colonial rule shape ethnic power even after independence? Existing research offers mixed arguments and rarely differentiates between different types of political empowerment. Drawing on the historical observation that the parliament and the security forces were two of the major sources of political power in newly independent states, this preregistered study tests whether
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The new Palestinian textbooks: A strategy for national identity and self-determination Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Samira Alayan, Celia Riley
As part of an effort to establish a national identity within the education sector, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) revised its 2018/2019 textbooks. This study seeks to understand the motivation behind the revisions, focusing on how the new content depict ‘the self’ and ‘the other’. Through our analysis, it was discovered that the textbooks should be seen as an extension of the Palestinian
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Resource nationalism among Russian academics: A centre-periphery pattern? Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Alessandro Tinti, Linda Basile, Marco Cilento
Under Putin's tenure, the geopolitical representation of Russia as an ‘energy superpower’ has become a powerful mainstay for the restoration of a global status and a revanchist foreign policy. This article seeks to assess the extent to which such a nationalist narrative is prevalent among Russian academics in the oil and gas sector. Using a survey administered to research and teaching staff in selected
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The role of social media in facilitating minority mobilisation: The Russian-language pro-war movement in Germany amid the invasion of Ukraine Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Liliia Sablina
This article examines the mobilisation of minority groups along ethnic and national lines through social media, an area that has not been fully explored. The study analyses the case of Russian-speaking minority members who were mobilised in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 via the messaging app Telegram. By taking a bottom-up perspective, the article reconstructs the pathways of the
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State making or state breaking?’ Crisis, COVID-19 and the constitution in Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Paul Anderson, Coree Brown Swan, Carles Ferreira, Judith Sijstermans
As the first cases of COVID-19 emerged in Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom, they did so against a backdrop of heightened constitutional contestation. Capturing the period January 2020 to December 2021 which included three waves of the pandemic in each state and the delivery of vaccines, this article examines how state and sub-state nationalists articulated their constitutional preferences and
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Post-national brand utopias: Islamic State and the Good Country as challengers to the nation-state Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Nadia Kaneva
This study presents a critical discourse analysis of two ideological challengers to the nation-state: (1) Islamic State, which declared a Caliphate in 2014, and (2) the Good Country, a virtual state founded in 2018. While rooted in dramatically different ideologies, both projects explicitly reject nationalism and rely on media and promotional discourses to build support for their post-national utopias
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Branding the nation in the era of climate crisis: Eco-nationalism and the promotion of green national sovereignty Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Melissa Aronczyk
This article examines the contemporary discourse of eco-nationalism and its promotion of national sovereignty and belonging. I consider some of the strategies, symbols and narratives by which nationalist movements and political leaders have evoked environmental problems and particularly the global threat of climate change to justify excluding populations from ‘native’ lands, erect walls or other physical
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Threats, truths and strategies: The overlooked relationship between protests, nation branding and public diplomacy Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 César Jiménez-Martínez, Alina Dolea
Although protests are an essential part of modern politics, scholars in nation branding, public diplomacy and soft power have had very little to say about these episodes. Discussions in the field have only marginally addressed dissent and disruption, falling into a methodological statism that emphasises what states do to construct and legitimise specific versions of national identity. Debates on nation
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Introduction: Nation promotion and the crisis of neoliberal globalisation Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 César Jiménez-Martínez, Sabina Mihelj, Daniel Sage
This themed section seeks to initiate a debate about the changing nature of what we call nation promotion. That is, promotional practices aimed at creating, communicating and managing versions of national identity to advance economic or political goals. These practices—badged as ‘nation branding’, ‘public diplomacy’, ‘country branding’ or ‘soft power—emerged more than two decades ago, in a context
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Place and local identity in the Europe of nations: Catalonia and its cities in Restoration Spain (1875–1923) Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 David Cao-Costoya
This article suggests that local places and civic identities were historically relevant in the period when national politics and cultures emerged in Europe but have largely not received due attention in the historiography. It argues that the production of the local is a significant factor for understanding the configuration of the nation and that it was tied to how communities—and the agents that constituted
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Issue Information - TOC Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-06-29
No abstract is available for this article.
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Possibilities and pitfalls of the concept of national indifference Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Maarten Van Ginderachter
This introduction to the themed section ‘The history of national indifference. A critical appraisal’ explores the challenges and possibilities of the concept of national indifference. It starts from the premise that national indifference remains a very useful concept to avoid falling into teleological narratives of nationalism. The central argument is that national indifference needs to be theorized
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Tangible belonging and national indifference: Being German in interwar Hungary1 Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 John C. Swanson
Building on arguments from my book Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary, this article examines the sense of ‘being German’ in Hungarian-German villages in interwar Hungary. The basic argument is that rural dwellers possessed a kind of tangible belonging (a tangible sense of being German, in this case) defined by the immediate world around them and that this tangible
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Performing national identities in everyday life: Popular motivations and national indifference in 19th-century Amsterdam Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Anne Petterson
This article demonstrates how and when the nation—whether in the shape of concrete national symbols or as an abstract frame of reference—became relevant to ordinary people. It focuses on the experiences and activities of Amsterdam citizens in the second half of the 19th century. Central to the analysis is the apparent contradiction between ‘banal’ or ‘everyday nationalism’, in which nationalist symbols
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National indifferences during everyday nationalism: Experiencing the nation in Finland in the aftermath of the Second World War Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Ville Kivimäki, Sami Suodenjoki, Tanja Vahtikari
Our article discusses the adaptability of the concept of national indifference to the context of post-war Finnish society and everyday nationalism. This period witnessed a transformation of previously exclusive and aggressive nationalism into a tempered and relatively inclusive version. Within this historical context, national indifference became an entangled category that could not be clearly attributed
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Varieties of nationalism in the political discourses of Habsburg Austria Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Philipp Decker
Nationalism in the Habsburg Empire is traditionally viewed through an ethnic lens. Despite a growing literature on ‘national indifference’ that studies nationalism in Habsburg central Europe from a constructivist perspective and advances our knowledge concerning variations in national identifications, the nationalism implied in these works remains largely limited to an exclusionary ethnic type. This
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Diaspora boundaries and racial democracy: Nationalist discourses on Judaism and Zionism in Brazil Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Jonathan Grossman
This article examines how Brazilian nationalist elites perceived Jews, Judaism and Zionism during the military dictatorship period (1964–1985). Although an explicit antisemitic discourse was socially unacceptable in Brazil, many nationalist officials and intellectuals who discussed Jewish and Zionist Brazilians among themselves during those years were using a discourse of Jewish disloyalty. This discourse
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A transnational millet in the Jewish state: A Judeo-Spanish diaspora between Israel and Turkey, 1948–1958 Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Aviad Moreno, Tamir Karkason
Between 1948 and 1956, 36,302 Jews migrated from Turkey to Israel, forming the largest Turkish diaspora hub at that time. Drawing on the nine newspapers published by Turkish Jews in Israel in their vernacular, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), this article sheds light on the complex nature of the migrants' transnational affinity to the Turkish Republic and on how it coexisted with their Jewish nationalism. In
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‘Exodus’: The Serb flight from Sarajevo, its legacy, and its role in the political memory of Republika Srpska Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Ondřej Žíla
This study provides a conceptual and empirical explanation of how and why the leadership of Republika Srpska (RS), which is one of the entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed a specific discourse concerning the flight of Sarajevan Serbs after the 1992–1995 war. Undertaking an analysis of local media, it explores the ‘defensive’ and ‘cohesive’ strategies promulgated by the RS elite that have been
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Natural allies? Varieties of attitudes towards the United States and Russia within the French and German radical right Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Toby Greene
This paper contributes to a growing literature on the international political world views and foreign policy agendas of European radical right parties with data from in-depth interviews with current and former elected representatives of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and Rassemblement National (RN), focusing on their attitudes towards the United States and Russia. Despite very different party structures
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In defence of the nation: Why do churches receive public trust as high as their secular counterparts? Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Namig Abbasov
Secularisation theory contends that religiosity and trust in religious organisations tend to decline when trust in their secular counterparts increases. However, it is puzzling why religious organisations receive public trust as high as their secular counterparts in countries where religiosity is low. If religious organisations are deemed to be doomed as trust in secular counterparts rises, why do
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Killing the dead: The logic of cemetery destruction during genocidal campaigns Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Noa Krikler
This paper contends that cultural destruction during genocidal campaigns is a dimension of genocide itself and is evidence of the intent to completely erase the targeted group from existence. It focuses on a powerful, yet under-examined, form of cultural violence, namely the destruction of cemeteries and graveyards. My argument will be demonstrated through the localised case study of the town of Zvornik
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Objectivising national identity: The introduction of national registers in the late Habsburg Empire Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Börries Kuzmany
Western societies over the last few decades have seen an increased interest in questions of group belonging and group identities, including ethno-national groups. According to essentialising or constructivist paradigms, belonging to a national group is commonly conceptualised in the range of objective versus subjective criteria, where objective entails ascription and subjective, self-identification
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Ruptured imaginings amid emerging nationhood: The unsettled narrative of “unity in resistance” in South Sudanese history textbooks Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Denise Bentrovato, Merethe Skårås
This article explores the place of history education in state-sponsored nation-building in war-torn South Sudan, the world's youngest country. It examines discourses around nationhood transmitted via the first history curricula, textbooks and teacher guides issued in the midst of civil war, after the country's secession from Sudan to its north. The analysis uncovers a central memory of violence and
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International origin and development of nationalism: Generational transformation of East Timorese nationalism under Indonesia's occupation (1975–1999) Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Takahiro Kamisuna
East Timorese nationalism experienced a unique generational transition during Indonesia's occupation hinging onto internationalism in the changing world. In contrast to the existing literature on nationalism, which is overwhelmingly focused on earlier construction of nationalism and post-independence nation building, this article offers a theoretical account of the transformation of nationalism from
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Connections between populism and nationalism: Evidence from Jair Bolsonaro's speeches Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Paolo Ricci, Gustavo Venturelli
Recent studies have warned about the close relationship between populism and nationalism. This article offers an empirical contribution to the examination of this relationship by analysing the presence of populist and nationalist elements in the official speeches of the outgoing Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. We make two contributions to this expanding literature. First, we show that the supposed
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The consequences of nationalism: A scholarly exchange Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Matthias vom Hau, Marc Helbling, Maya Tudor, Andreas Wimmer, Daphne Halikiopoulou
The main thrust of the scholarship on nationalism has so far been concerned with its origins. But nationalism also has effects. Whether it underpins the nation-building efforts of states, is mobilised by counter-state forces or is used in everyday life, nationalism might implicate a wide range of substantive outcomes, including political regimes, public goods provision, citizenship and immigration
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Issue Information - TOC Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-03-23
No abstract is available for this article.
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It is not me, it is you: The emergence of secessionist parties in Western democracies Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Alex B. Rivard
Although there exists a voluminous amount of existing literature that studies secessionist parties and the emergence of political parties more generally, there exists little that looks at the emergence of secessionist parties specifically. This article models the emergence of secessionist parties across western democracies and argues that the emergence of said parties is structured by both sociodemographic
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Charisma, populism, and the formation of national identity: Sheikh Mujib and Bengali nationalism Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Bobby Hajjaj
Identity formation is a complex process and has been discussed by post-structuralist discourse theorist Ernesto Laclau. This paper focuses on Laclau's proposed ideas on the means of identity production and populism and studies the popular independence movement for Bangladesh under that rubric. It locates charismatic leadership as a necessary condition for populism and identifies Bangabandhu Sheikh
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The evolution of the civic–ethnic distinction as a partial success story: Lessons for the nationalism–patriotism distinction Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Eunike Piwoni, Marlene Mußotter
This article brings, for the first time, two of the most pivotal distinctions in nationalism studies into extended dialogue: the civic–ethnic distinction (CED) and the nationalism–patriotism distinction (NPD). By reviewing both the evolution of those distinctions over the previous decades and the ways in which they have been used in quantitative empirical research, we argue that the CED's evolution
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#WeWillWin: Mobilisation of Jerusalem's Armenian youth and digital acts of citizenship during the Second Artsakh War Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Lance Levenson
This focused digital ethnography explores Armenian diaspora youth mobilisation via hashtag activism concerning a homeland conflict, examining the impact of digital citizenship acts on diaspora nationalism and identity negotiation. Taking Jerusalem's Armenian School as a case study, I analyse the school's use of Facebook amid a global pandemic to coordinate youth mobilisation around the viral hashtag
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The nation in bronze and granite: Creating national monuments in post-Soviet Bishkek Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Moira O'Shea
Scholars of nationalism have long looked to material forms of symbolic power to understand the politics and cultures of nations, and national monuments specifically have been studied as reflections of ideological programmes of political regimes. However, these approaches have paid insufficient attention to processes of creation. Given the importance of material symbols as sites through which the nation
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The state, identity politics and ethnic boundaries in Afghanistan: The case of Sunni Hazaras Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Niamatullah Ibrahimi
In recent years, a growing number of activists in Afghanistan have been proactively self-identifying as Sunni Hazaras. The trend demonstrates an important shift that illuminates how ethnic boundaries may change and evolve in response to elite politics and state policies in Afghanistan. Many of the communities that are the subjects of new collective identity discourses share important commonalities
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The memory politics of Cursed Soldiers, antisemitism and racialisation Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Krzysztof Jaskulowski, Piotr Majewski
This paper examines the relationship between racism and the memory politics of the anti-communist underground in Poland. It explores a covert antisemitism behind the conservative nationalist hegemonic project of transforming the anti-communist underground into the ideologically charged symbol of the Cursed Soldiers. It demonstrates that under the conditions of the condemnation of antisemitism, the
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Propagating Afrikaner nationalism: The Voortrekker stamps as icons of an ideology, c.1933–1949 Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Gary Baines
This paper posits the importance of visual representations in cultivating a national consciousness among white Afrikaners in South Africa. It provides a case study of stamps issued to commemorate the centenary of the Great Trek in 1938 that sought to raise awareness of and funds for the Voortrekker Monument project. Although stamps are, ordinarily, symbols of banal nationalism, the Voortrekker stamps
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Dimensions of social trust and national identity: Addressing a multifaceted relationship Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Steffen Wamsler
Social trust is crucial for the functioning of societies and states as well as for the wellbeing of individuals. In this article, I expand on previous literature and scrutinise the role of definitions of group membership in the form of national belonging as a key predictor of three distinct dimensions of social trust: particularised trust, trust in strangers and identity-based trust. Drawing on recent
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History perceptions and national identity among Latvian youth: Entrapped between narratives of Latvia and Russia? Nations and Nationalism (IF 2.058) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Ieva Bērziņa, Gatis Krūmiņš, Jānis Šiliņš, Māris Andžāns
This article examines the extent to which history forms national identity among Latvian youth. Being a multiethnic country, Latvia provides a unique opportunity to study the role of history in nation-building among dominant and minority ethnic groups. The majority of Latvia's ethnic minorities are Russian-speaking; therefore, a peculiarity of the Latvian case is the influence of the historical narratives