National minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the new Europe: notes toward a relational analysis

Forschungsbericht | Research report

"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 struggles among competing »stances.« In a brief concluding section, I return to the relational nexus as a whole, underscoring the dynamically interactive quality of the triadic interplay." (author's abstract)

Object Details

• Extent: Seite(n): 21
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Reihe Politikwissenschaft / Institut für Höhere Studien, Abt. Politikwissenschaft (11)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Soziologie von Gesamtgesellschaften ; Migration ; ethnische Gruppe ; Heimat ; Herkunftsland ; Minderheit ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Nationalstaat ; nationale Identität ; Nationalismus

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Brubaker, Rogers
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien
• (where): Österreich, Wien
• (when): 1993

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-267473
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST