Ethnic and Civic Nationalism
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The study of nationalism in general and postcommunist nationalism in particular should resist the civic-ethnic dichotomy because of its normative moralism, geographic determinism, conceptual ambiguities and empirical inadequacy. Neither... more
Le projet communautaire, élaboré aujourd’hui, par le Mouvement wallon et les autorités wallonnes tourne autour des notions de liberté, de démocratie, de citoyenneté et d’anti-nationalisme. Cet idéal de société, purement citoyen, ne révèle... more
The Walloon Movement is the lesser-known counterpart to the Flemish Movement in Belgium. In contemporary political debate it presents itself, and is usually perceived, as a civic and voluntaristic movement predicated on the values of... more
Summary: Attempts at formulating a dichotomous classification of nations and nationalisms have proliferated in the relevant literature over a long period of time. In this study some of the most influential instances of dual... more
Parliamentary debates on the definition of the nation-state and national identities are a very revealing discursive domain of tracing the cues of the social construction of this category. Integrating social-psychological and discourse... more
The term 'civic nationalism' as it is used today in nationalism studies is misleading because it combines territorial collective identity with liberal-democratic values. As such, for example, it does not provide much insight into the... more
The modern European concept of ‘nation’ triggered ceaseless wars and interminable conflicts over the past two centuries. But was there only one modern European concept of ‘nation’? Certainly not! Nation – a modern term with no ancient... more
For the purpose of this paper, symbols are interpreted not necessarily as constructing nations but materializing their abstract theoretical foundations. Scholars have analyzed symbols both within nationalist and patriotic frameworks, and... more
This article focuses on ancestry as a controversial marker of Britishness/Germanness. Considering developments in nationality law and large-scale survey data for England and Germany (ISSP 2003), it illustrates that macro-contextual... more
This article introduces three small, European stateless nations that—invigorated by pervasive metropolitanisation phenomena—are increasingly shaping calls for devolution: Catalonia, the Basque Country and Scotland. These three nations are... more
Parliamentary debates on the definition of the nation-state and national identities are a very revealing discursive domain of tracing the cues of the social construction of this category. Integrating social-psychological and discourse... more
Nationalism (and Liberalism) in the Light of Lutheran Theology. Tiililä Society Lecture at the Finnish Theological Institute. 3.12.2019 Nationalismi (ja liberalismi) luterilaisen teologian valossa. Tiililä-seura. Suomen teologinen... more
The term 'civic nationalism' as it is used today in nationalism studies is misleading because it combines territorial collective identity with liberal-democratic values. As such, for example, it does not provide much insight into the... more
... The same holds for La Ruche Wallonne in 1883, the Société de Propagande 6 Maarten Van Ginderachter and Joep Leerssen ... Page 8. Charles the Bold's siege of Liège in 1468 was to be rehearsed over and over again, becoming, in the... more
This article shines new light on the life and work of the Prague historian Hans Kohn (1891-1971), on his study of nationalism in the Low Countries, and in particular on Flemish nationalism. The article traces the influence of the Zionist... more
Against the background of the rise of ‘diaspora institutions’ since the early 2000s, this commentary reflects on China’s diaspora engagement and India’s interest in it in the context of its own institutionalization of diaspora engagement... more
Review essay of articles on identity in Ukraine published in this issue of the Post-Soviet Affairs.