The sense of historical
injustice and the symbolic
power of resentment
Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism
Reframed. (Cambridge University
Press, 1996) pp. 79-147.
Brubaker: the nation and
nationality
The principle of nationality: the
conception of states as the states
of and for particular nation.
The category of nation as a main
principle of vision and division of
the social world.
Nation as a category of
practice
A nationalist rhetoric: nations as collective
individuals capable of purposive action
Nation as constituted by shared objective
characteristics
Nation as an object of historical
development
A conception of state-transcending nation
Nationhood as a category of
analysis I.
The category of nation as an elementary
form of political understanding,
rhetoric, interest and identity
ˇMobilizing myths of nationhood
Nationhood as a category of
analysis II.
The organization of political space
along nation-state borders
ˇNational identity as a statistical
category vs. obligatory ascribed identity
Political space
The idea of nation
became a main
political instrument
for reimagining and
reorganizing political
space in conditions
of modernity
Post-imperial condition
Loosely integrated, polyethnic,
polyreligious and polylinguistic
imperial realms were in the second half
of 19th century perceived, experienced
and criticized as multinational.
ˇ
The ,,national" as a means of imagining
the society as distinct from the state
Budapest 1956
Prague 1968
Resentment
bitter indignation at having been
treated unfairly
ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Italian
risentimento or French ressentiment ,
from obsolete French resentir