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Nations and nationalism

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posted on 2015-06-19, 08:42 authored by Marco AntonsichMarco Antonsich
Nation and nationalism are two referents which continue to play a major role in how politics and social life are organized. The present article discusses their relevance from two distinct perspectives. Traditional accounts of nation and nationalism have largely focused on the questions of ‘when’ and ‘what’ is a nation, i.e. on the historical origins and substance of the nation, including its civic/ethnic character. Starting from the early 1990s, new approaches have instead privileged the ‘how’ and ‘where’ of a nation, i.e. the ways and the sites in which the nation is reproduced and becomes a relevant resource in people’s lives. The article then focuses on one of the most pressing challenges the nation is facing today, namely the increasing ethno-cultural diversity of its population. Final remarks point to the directions where further research is needed and where political geography can offer an important contribution.

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  • Geography and Environment

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The Companion to Political Geography

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ANTONSICH, M., 2015. Nations and nationalism. IN: Agnew, J.A. et al. (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 297-310.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2015

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This is a chapter from The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography [http://eu.wiley.com/]

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978-1-118-72588-7

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  • en

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