National minorities and the
challenge of re-emerging
forms of conflict and
solidarity
Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed.
(Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp. 13-22,
55-76
"Nation" as a form of social
relationship
Citizenship
based on common political
participation
Ethnicity
based on the ideology of descent
Historical reasons for
nationalism
The national idea played vital role in
political and cultural identity
formation from 18th-19th century
Both national-movements and states
consolidated the ethnic meaning of
nation
Cultural reasons
The only legitimate identity forms
having the symbolic power to
mobilize subject are ethnic
nationalities
Social reasons
Ethnicity is a basis both for social
networks and social exclusion
Three forms of nationalism
The nationalizing nationalism
Claims made in the name of a "core
nation"
Trans-border nationalism
External national "homelands"
Minority nationalism
Collective rights
Distinction between nationality and
citizenship
Nation-building and
nationalization
ˇThe primacy of territory and
population as an objects of
government
ˇRemaking loyalties and identities to
a national loyalty and identity
ˇModernization: the ignorance of
cultural boundaries and ethnicity
(language and religion)
The instrumental rationality
behind nationalizing strategies
The confidence in knowledge
The confidence in practices
The confidence in knowledge
1. Universal patterns
of social and
political
development
2. Scientific
grounding of
politics and the
normative role of
science
The confidence in practices
Remaking the
human material of
the state
Transforming
institutional
constraints of
practice