The current pilot study investigated the psychological mechanisms behind ethnic outgroup aggression, a significant outcome of intergroup conflicts. While previous research suggested several impactful predictors such as contact and nationalism, no attempt has been made to synthesize all these constructs into single cross-cultural study. Building on existing research, this is first assess refined...

Culinary nationalism in India has given rise to a hegemony of vegetarianism, excluding numerous regional and ethnic cuisines the process. A homogeneous culinary identity is attempted by othering specific communities like Christians Muslims, lower caste Hindus, tribal groups, disputing legitimacy their national belonging and, hence, traditions. The traditional gender roles women kitchen spaces, ...

Abstract This article explores the issue of Russian imperial nationalism in early phase its formation, namely nationalization patriotism literature during Crimean War, 1853–56. Using historical studies and theories nationalism, author shows how why an acute discourse a nationalistic experience community uniting elite with common people arose St. Petersburg society, theater, literature. Drawing ...

Abstract This article brings, for the first time, two of most pivotal distinctions in nationalism studies into extended dialogue: civic–ethnic distinction (CED) and nationalism–patriotism (NPD). By reviewing both evolution those over previous decades ways which they have been used quantitative empirical research, we argue that CED's has a partial success story, whereas discourse around NPD not ...

Modern universities have largely been portrayed in the literature as an extension of nation building projects, focusing on state primary actor. This article challenges such presuppositions by separating ‘nation’ and ‘state’ with a critical appropriation diasporic subjectivity institutions from comparative historical perspective. The has four themes: ‘diaspora’, ‘ethnic internationalism’, ‘state...

In the established political system of liberal nation-states built up on a principle of coherence between culture and nation as territorially defined groups, the occurrence of cultural differences has brought to the dissolution of this formula crucial for a unity of a nation-state. Nationalism holds that cultural differences are results of a hierarchy between “us” and “them” and consequently th...

Political theory in the last decade has been awash with discussions of cultural diversity and ethnic, racial, and religious pluralism, with books exploring ‘the ethos of pluralization’, ‘strange multiplicity’, and ‘the politics of recognition’. Yet there is one form of diversity which has received relatively little attention from political theorists: linguistic diversity. To our knowledge, ther...

Thomas Keneally has long been a writer who gives expression to nationalist sentiment. In 1978 J.J. Healy commented that writers such as Keneally represented ‘a collective, many-motived consciousness’ whose impulse was ‘political, public’. Indeed, many of Keneally’s earlier novels illustrate what we might call ‘national progenitors’. In From The Ruins of Colonialism Chris Healy describes a uniqu...

As the Philippines celebrates its centennial of independence, it is perhaps worth remembering that it was a pair of human inventions, revolution and nationalism, that gave birth to the Filipino nation. Of this pair, nationalismlargely a New World invention but which was transmitted to Filipino patriots through European contactswas the driving force in the struggle for national identity, in an...