...relation to the process of state- and nation-building. Gellner, for example, defined nationalism as 'primarily a political principle which holds that...political and national unit should be congruent'. 6 In this reading nationalism has a significant role in the modernization process, in the consolidation...

...NATIONALISM? Ernest Gellner begins his famous book on nationalism by defining the concept like this: Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent. Nationalism as a sentiment, or as a movement, can best be defined...

...unrealized ideal of building a Chinese nation-state. Notes 1. Ernest Gellner (1983, 1) points out that nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national units should be congruent. According to Gellner, nationalism as a sentiment or as a movement...

...identification' (Hobsbawm, 1992, p. 9). He quotes Gellner's definition of nationalism as 'primarily a principle which holds that the political and national unit should be congruent' (Gellner, 1983, p. 1). In addition, he takes as strong a view on the commitment involved in nationalism...

...classical model of nationalism, see Hutchinson (1994, 134); Kamenka (1976, 2-20). 11. According to Gellner "nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent" (Gellner 1983a, 1). 1 2. For the view that nationalism is fabrication,...

...one read no further than the first line of Ernest Gellner's influential book where he asserts that 'Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which...the political and national unit should be congruent' (1983: i; see also Hechter 2000: 7). From here, presumably, one would attempt to nail down the definition...

...constituent pans (see Brems, 1995, p. 5). 128 See Gellner's famous definition of nationalism as "primarily a principle which holds that the political and national unit should be congruent." (Gellner, 1993, p. 1). 129 See Sieyès, 1970; for an overview of Sieyès theory, see Böckenförde,...

...succeeding generations. The idea of nationalism which creates bitter trouble is that defined by Gellner: the "political principle, which holds that the political and national unit should be congruent." According to this idea, the problem of how to share identity space can be solved by giving each nation...

...pp. 77-78. 17 Anderson, Imagined Communities. 18 Ibid., pp. 6-7; Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, p. 1 ("Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent."); Duara, Rescuing History, pp. 17-33. 19 Duara, Rescuing History,...

...ruled hy its co-nationals'(O'Leary l997: l9l). This definition is similar to Gellner's, who held that nationalism is 'primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and die national unit should he congruem' iticllner l983: l '. Nothing in cither definition makes nationalism...