Peripheral nationalism
Peripheral nationalism refers to the
Peripheral nationalism occurs in a culturally or linguistically distinctive territory — and oftentimes with a different socioeconomic degree of development — that resists incorporation or assimilation into an expanding State,[2] or resists the larger Statewide nationalist construction. Existing theories of peripheral nationalism explain that the emergence of peripheral nationalism occurs in regions with a larger or greater degree of economic development in relation to the rest of the State, overlapping spatially delimited ethnic communities,[3] as it is the case in the Basque Country or Catalonia in Spain, or Xinjiang in China.[4] Peripheral nationalism may also emerge in opposition to the State seeking legitimacy through hegemony or domination by imposing a nationalistic sentiment which is then resisted by the smaller peripheral nationalisms, which defend their "cultural nation."[5]
Even if the aim of peripheral nationalists is emancipation, their solution may not be the creation of a nation-state for themselves, in which case a federal solution is preferred, according with the concept of "regional pluralism" in opposition to monism or imperialism.[5] Peripheral nationalisms may demand a recognition of the national identity of their own regions (i.e. their own existence as a "nation"). The existence of such nations may coexist within the State they belong to (e.g. by proposing the concept of a "nation composed of several nations" or a "nation of nations"), or they may defend their right to self-determination, secession, and the ability to create their own independent State.
See also
References
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- ^ Hechter, Michael (2000). "Types of Nationalism". The Nationalism Project. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- ^ Diez Medrano, Juan (August 1994). "Patterns of Development and Nationalism: Basque and Catalan Nationalism before the Spanish Civil War" (PDF). Theory and Society, Vol. 23, No. 4. pp. 541–56. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- ^ Yuan-Kang Wang (September 2001). "Toward a Synthesis of the Theories of Peripheral Nationalism: A Comparative Study of China's Xinjiang and Guangdon" (PDF). Asian Ethnicity, Volume 2, Number 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- ^ a b D.L. Seiler (July 1989). "Peripheral Nationalism Between Pluralism and Monism". International Political Science Review. Retrieved 3 March 2012.