Nationalism Flashcards
What is a nation?
A people united by factors such as common descent, language, culture, history, so as to form a distinct people
What is a state?
A set of institutions with authority to govern the people, and with sovereignty over a definite territory
What is a nation-state?
an autonomous political community bound together by the overlapping of citizenship and nationality.
What is nationalism?
a belief that the nation is the central principle in political organisations.
What does Gellner say about nations and nationalism?
Nations are a myth, nationalism is a reality
Who said that nations are an imagined Community?
Anderson
Why are nations and imagined community?
members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion
Why is it difficult to define nationalism?
It has adapted to many different contexts
Its role in modern history has made it a polemical subject.
Where did nationalism start?
French Rev was a pivotal event where people claimed ‘french nation’
What helped nationalism develop?
» Standardisation of cultural consciousness through modern education and communications
How is nationalism an ideology?
sense of belonging to and serving a perceived national community
What is liberal nationalism?
Based on human rights,, citizeship and common interest
what is illiberal nationalism?
A vision of ‘nation’ irrespective of themselves. More person based on people you know
Who said that nationality is necessary for stability of a political community, But… It can very easily spill over into xenophobia and racism?
Festenstien and Kenny
What is a negative form of nationalism?
The nationalism that tries to deny or eliminate differences in the effected to create a homogeneous unitary polity.
