POLS 4240 Chapter Notes - Chapter --: Civic Nationalism, Ethnic Nationalism, Chauvinism
29 Jan 2016
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The study of nationhood and nationalism has been marked by deep ambivalence and. Nationalism has been associated with militarism, war, irrationalism, chauvinism, intolerance, intractable ambiguity homogenization, forced assimilation, authoritarianism, parochialism, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, ethnic cleansing, even genocide. Nationhood and nationalism has been linked to democracy self determination, political legitimacy, social integration, civil religion, solidarity, dignity, identity, cultural survival, citizenship, patriotism and liberation from alien rule: 56. Distinctions between civic and ethnic understandings of nationhood and forms of nationalism. Civic nationalism characterized as liberal, voluntarist, universalist and incisive. Ethnic nationalism glossed as illiberal, ascriptive, particularist and exclusive. Quebecois separatism as rooted in ethnic rather than civic nationalism blood is more important than citizenship. It is often impossible or problematic to characterize an entire state or an entire national p. 61. Civic nationalism may be interpreted strictly as involving an actual, ahistorical, universalist, The nation is then constructed as a voluntary association of culturally unmarked individuals.
