Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities Mylonas Harris
Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities Mylonas Harris Nationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept, associated with democratic revolutions and…
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Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities Mylonas Harris
Nationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept, associated with democratic revolutions and public goods provision, but also with xenophobia, genocide, and wars. Definitional disagreements, Eurocentric conceptualizations, and linear associations between ethnicity and nationalism have hampered our ability to synthesize insights. Moving beyond facile distinctions between 'good' and 'bad' nationalisms, we argue that nationalism is an empirically variegated ideology.
Does a nation exist? 2. This Element proposes that nationalism can be broken down productively into parts based on three key questions: 1. How do national narratives vary? 3.
When do national narratives matter? The answers to these questions generate five dimensions along which nationalism varies: elite fragmentation and popular fragmentation of national communities; ascriptiveness and thickness of