GEOG 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Michael Billig, Primordialism, Metonymy
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Nationalism and the state continued : what is nationalism, different forms of nationalism, what is a nation, nations and states, when is a nation, theories of the emergence of nationalism. Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent in brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires that ethnic boundaries should not cut across political ones ernest gellner. A constructivist critique of perrenialist and modernist theories of nations and nationalism. Nations as an imagined community" never definitively come into being. Always in a process of becoming that requires reiteration and re-narration. Only exist as things" in the world to the extent that people believe and act as if they do. More accurate to talk about crystallization of feeling of nation-ness or nationhood rather than creation of nations. Nationalizing space through representations and practices that evoke a common identity (nation) tied to a specific place (homeland) and territorial state.
