Official nationalism is a reactive response to earlier popular national movements
Evidence
The key to situating ‘official nationalism’ – willed merger of nation and dynastic empire – is to remember that it developed after, and in reaction to, the popular national movements proliferating in Europe since the 1820s. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 348
Categorization
- XREF: The reactive/defensive logic of elite nationalism reappears in how states respond to minority national claims in the Islamophobia literature. — connects to: Post-colonial nations blend popular and official nationalism as ongoing projects — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 446; Cultivated middle classes drove vernacular nationalist movements across Europe — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 480; Russian official nationalism differed from Spanish colonialism in being self-consciously Machiavellian — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 347 (+4 more)
Related
- Post-colonial nations blend popular and official nationalism as ongoing projects (similarity 0.87)
- Official nationalism is a copyable state-serving policy with a Janus-headed legacy (similarity 0.82)
- Once a national-state model exists, even reactionary nationalisms must adopt populist standards (similarity 0.81)
- Nationalism must be read against prior cultural systems, not political ideologies (similarity 0.81)
- Revolutionary regimes retroactively adopt dynastic national identities as state power (similarity 0.80)
- Official nationalism serves threatened ruling classes, not great powers alone (similarity 0.79)
- Official nationalism is an anticipatory strategy by threatened dominant groups (similarity 0.79)
- Nationalism could be consciously modeled and pirated once visible predecessors existed. (similarity 0.79)
- Russian official nationalism differed from Spanish colonialism in being self-consciously Machiavellian (similarity 0.79)
- Rising national consciousness forced the state to recognize only nationals as citizens (similarity 0.79)
- Nationalist revival frames the vernacular’s decline as a shameful gap to be redeemed (similarity 0.78)
- Nationalism originated in the New World colonies, not in Europe’s ethnolinguistic movements (similarity 0.78)
- Cultivated middle classes drove vernacular nationalist movements across Europe (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Post-colonial nations blend popular and official nationalism as ongoing projects
#complicates(0.82) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 446 - Cultivated middle classes drove vernacular nationalist movements across Europe
#contradicts(0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 480