National identity struggles reduce to competition for state-institutional domination

Evidence

This has produced a racialized struggle over control of the national space, which takes place in the political arena. It is objectified in political competition for control of the governing institutions of the state among competing racial political organization, including political parties and trade unions. The struggle for the nation, therefore, is a struggle for domination of the national political space. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3266

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘struggle for the nation’ as fundamentally a struggle over political-institutional domination rather than cultural or demographic presence.
• XREF: connects to: Asian internal conflicts spring from contests over legitimacy, identity, state building, and distributive justice. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 494