Why Independence? The Instrumental and Ideological Dimensions of Nationalism
- 26 July 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Comparative Sociology
- Vol. 45 (3-4), 277-296
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0020715204049597
Abstract
This article explores the distinction between an instrumentalist nationalism employed as a resource to combat relative deprivation and an ideological nationalism that resolves the anomic impact of social disruption by constructing politics as a simplistic moral confrontation between the virtuous “Us” and the demonized “Other.” This distinction is related to the examination of how radicalized ethnic majority nationalisms and radicalized ethnic minority nationalisms might be buffered by civic nationalisms, or by the resilience of patrimonial networks. These conceptualizations of nationalism illuminate, and are at the same time illuminated by, one contemporary dispute, that of Achenese secessionism in Indonesia.Keywords
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