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National Sentiments in Eastern and Western Europe*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Mikael Hjerm
Mikael Hjerm*
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Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. Mikael.hjerm@soc.umu.se
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In a world of presumed nation-states nation has been, and still is, an intrinsic part of political legitimization. The claim of nationality has played an important role in such legitimization for the last two centuries. More than this, it has also constituted a fundamental collective entity for an individual's understanding of who they are in relation to those who are perceived as not sharing the nationality. This is nothing new, but in an era of globalization we are witnessing the rebirth of nationalism and nationality (Castells, 1997), where the power struggle over the political agenda will increasingly be about the struggle for the right to identity and the risks of exclusion from the national community. Even if this is the case it stands clear that everyday nationalism and nationalist struggles take different forms in different parts of the world.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 413 - 429
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Copyright © 2003 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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