This article focuses on how Canada’s French minority in Quebec developed a nationalist discourse and used its provincial state to strengthen its economic and political status within the federation. It presents the parameters that define contemporary Quebec nationalism and its evolution over the past four decades. The first part of the article deals with nationalism during the ‘Quiet Revolution’...

For the last decades Iran has been playing significant role in Middle Eastern politics. Tehran’s rooted involvement Arab’s political environments provokes tensions and hostilities Arab-Iranian relations. The author believes that historical legacy of interactions still determined some important characteristics In this article investigates nationalism national building process Arab countries Iran...

I employ the concept of modality in order to capture the configurations of homogeneous elements that may exist in a heterogeneous context encompassing diverse nationalist movements. Modalities of nationalism are varied outcomes of the efforts of intellectuals to resolve issues concerning the identity of their political community, its boundaries, and the ideal political regime. A modality rests ...

Abstract Using evidence regarding the consolidation of Hindu nationalism in India we put forward new ethnographic data about variety popular support for a Hindutva project and framework that proposes an interactive theory social identity. This helps us understand how becomes embedded society. We assert could be fruitfully analysed by focusing on processes through which ideas exclusive spread am...

Most theoretical and empirical approaches to nationalism not only distinguish between ethnic civic notions of national belonging but also differentiate identity from hubris, pride, attachment. In this research note, we examine recently published on nationalist sentiments in the United States that takes a different approach. The study question, ‘Varieties American Popular Nationalism' by Bonikow...

In thinking about democratization we should avoid a one-dimensional set of categories. Western observers sometimes picture events in the post-Soviet world as a clear-cut battle between the forces of democratic reform on the one side and those of nationalist extremism on the other. While this scenario captures much of the situation, it does not exhaust the field of political possibilities. Sever...

This article is concerned with the contested nature of nationalism expressed through sport. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang offers some useful episodes where I can investigate a different type Korean represented At this Olympics, observed four distinctive discourses on identity being displayed via winter sporting competition: 1) unified ethnic nationalism, 2) South state patriotic ...

The need to call a place home is a very familiar desire. National citizenship can be thought of as a unique status which offers people unbridled access to this peace of mind. Because the nation is the source of this comfort, it is not surprising that people take pride in it. But nationalism stems from the abstract, purely ideological form of a nation. This concrete-less nationalism has been a k...

Abstract The article analyses how population genetics has impacted on nationalist discourses across the Taiwan Straits and affected relationship between China since 1990s. In this cutting-edge science helped to construct a native-based Taiwan-centred national identity through promoting indigenous peoples’ rights, rejecting blood-based, cross-Straits nationalism, founding pan-Pacific community g...