Mapping the Nation (Mappings Series) by

Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2012-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

Conclusion

Summary

I will simply put these as a series of short propositions.

1. Nationalism needs to be understood as something peculiarly modern. Approaches to nationalism which do not have some theory of modernity at their heart cannot understand this key feature of nationalism.

2. Nationalism needs to be clearly defined.

3. This definition suggests three types of subject: doctrines, politics, and sentiments.

4. There are special advantages to making politics the focus of attention.

5. Once nationalist politics is made the centre of attention, the theory of modernity should focus on political modernization.

6. The central feature of political modernization is the development of the sovereign and bounded state, as part of a system of competing states. This in turn is part of a broader shift towards societies in which the major functions (political, economic, cultural) are concentrated into specialized institutions.

7. Nationalist politics is best understood as initially one kind of oppositional response to political modernization. To describe those responses one needs to distinguish between the different strategies of nationalist oppositions (separation, reform, unification) and the different functions of nationalist ideas within those oppositions (coordination, mobilization, legitimacy).

8. With this framework it is possible to compare and contrast different nationalisms. Such comparisons suggest that the more strongly developed is the process of political modernization, then the more strongly developed will be nationalist oppositions.

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