Nations without Nationalism: Ethno-Political Theory and the Demise of the Nation-State

Lamont Dehaven King
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Lamont Dehaven King: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA

Journal of Developing Societies, 2002, vol. 18, issue 4, 354-364

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between the ethnic group, the nation, and the state. In addition to the analysis of related concepts such as modes of production and world-systems theory, it uses examples from precolonial Northern Nigeria to emphasize how multi-ethnic states existed in Africa prior to the development of global capitalism and the imposition of the colonial state. In so doing, it challenges the standard notion that the nation-state first emerged in Europe after the French Revolution. Instead, it offers a conceptualization of patriotism as identification with the state, which is distinct from nationalism and it also suggests areas of research in which this conceptualization of patriotism might be fruitfully applied.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1177/0169796X0201800404

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