Affiliation:
1. Victoria University of Wellington , Wellington , New Zealand
Abstract
Abstract
While nationalism theorists have mostly rejected primordialism, politicians and the wider public typically have a primordialist and essentialist understanding of national history. On the eve of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin invoked several primordialist tropes so as to justify military action, which is unsurprising in a politician. Yet Western scholars criticizing Putin's historical narratives in newspaper editorials or in scholarly talks posted to YouTube only rarely suggest modernist or social constructivist historical narratives. Several posit counter-primordialisms instead. Primordialism, then, enjoys more support than is widely realized, even among scholars who ought to be familiar with its problems. Meanwhile modernist theorists of nationalism, however popular among nationalism theorists, require more vigorous promotion in academic circles.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Sociology and Political Science,History,Cultural Studies
Reference93 articles.
1. Afanasiev, Ievgen. 2022. “The war has many Ukrainians who speak Russian abandoning the language.” National Public Radio NPR (24 April). URL: , accessed August 2, 2022.
2. Akopov, Sergey. 2012. “Multinationalism Mononationalism, or Transnationalism in Russia?” In Challenging Multiculturalism: European Models of Diversity edited by Raymond Taras, 297–319. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
3. Allahar, Anton. 1996. “Primordialism and Ethnic Political Mobilisation in Modern Society.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 22(1): 5–21.
4. Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities. London: Verso.
5. Ballentine, Finoa. 2022. “Putin Doesn’t Combat Nazism, He Cultivates It” (1 June). Australian Institute of International Affairs. URL: , accessed August 10, 2022.
Cited by
6 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献