{"id":142671,"date":"2022-01-04T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T23:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=142671"},"modified":"2022-01-04T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T23:41:10","slug":"national-identity-social-cohesion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=142671","title":{"rendered":"National Identity & Social Cohesion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a 2021 paper by Christian Albrekt Larsen<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* [Hans] Kohn\u2019s distinction had its roots in Meineke\u2019s (1970[1907]) distinction between \u201cstaatsnation\u201d (state nation) and \u201ckulturnation\u201d (culture nation). Kohn\u2019s basic argument was that in Western Europe (his examples were France, the UK, The
\nNetherlands and Switzerland), the borders of the state were settled prior to the rise of nationalism, which created a strong focus on the new democratic procedures that could legitimize the existing state. Nationalism therefore contained a narrative about turning oppressed inhabitants into citizens. In a less positive interpretation, Tilly calls it a \u201cstate-led nationalism\u201d where \u201crulers who spoke in a nation\u2019s name successfully demanded that citizens identify themselves with that nation and subordinate other interests to those of the state\u201d (Tilly 1994:133). In contrast, the borders in Eastern Europe were settled after the rise of nationalism, which created a strong focus on the ethnic\/cultural dimension of nationhood. Tilly calls it \u201cstate-seeking nationalism\u201d where \u201crepresentative of some population that currently did not have collective control of a state claimed an autonomous political status, or even a separate state, on the ground that the population had a distinct, coherent cultural identity\u201d (Tilly 1994:133). Kohn used the terms \u201cWestern\u201d and \u201cEastern\u201d both to denote the
\ngeographic locations of the various ideas of the nation (Kohn drew the line between the area west of the Rhine and the areas east of the Rhine) and to denote two different ideal types of perceptions of nationhood. <\/p>\n

* most contemporary scholars find it useful to replace Kohn\u2019s dichotomy with either 1) a continuum from \u201ccivic\/Western\/political\u201d at the one end to \u201cethnic\/Eastern\/cultural\u201d at the other or 2) a two-dimensional solution. Those in favor of a continuum often cite Anthony Smith for the argument in his seminal 1991 book that \u201c\u2026 every nationalism contains civic and ethnic elements in varying degrees and different forms. Sometimes civic and territorial elements predominate; at other times it is the ethnic and vernacular components that are emphasized\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a 2021 paper by Christian Albrekt Larsen: * [Hans] Kohn\u2019s distinction had its roots in Meineke\u2019s (1970[1907]) distinction between \u201cstaatsnation\u201d (state nation) and \u201ckulturnation\u201d (culture nation). Kohn\u2019s basic argument was that in Western Europe (his examples were France, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29615],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nationalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t