National minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the new Europe: notes toward a relational analysis
| Titel: | National minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the new Europe: notes toward a relational analysis |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Wien, 1993 |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource, 21 S. |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Reihe Politikwissenschaft / Institut für Höhere Studien, Abt. Politikwissenschaft ; Bd. 11 |
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| Bemerkung: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
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Abstract: "Nationalism remains central to politics in and among the new nation-states. Far from »solving« the region's national question, the most recent reconfiguration of political space – the replacement of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia by some twenty would-be nation-states – only recast it in a new form. It is this new phase and form of the national question that I explore in this paper. I begin by outlining a particular relational configuration – the triadic relational nexus between national minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands – that is central to the national question in post-Soviet Eurasia. In the second, and most substantial, section of the paper, I argue that each of the »elements« in this relational nexus – minority, nationalizing state, and homeland – should itself be understood in dynamic and relational terms, not as a fixed, given, or analytically irreducible entity but as a field of differentiated positions and an arena of strugg |
