1st Edition

State and Majority Nationalism in Plurinational States

Edited By Daniel Cetrà, Coree Brown Swan Copyright 2023
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

How do states respond to minority nations’ demands? Are state nationalism and majority nationalism the same? This book brings together the leading lights in nationalism studies to turn their attention to the neglected role of the state in nationalist disputes. The aspirations of state and majority nationalists often conflict with the aspirations of substate nationalist movements, leading to... Read more

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Biography

Daniel Cetrà is Beatriu de Pinós Research Fellow at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He specialises in nationalism, comparative territorial politics, and the politics of language.

Coree Brown Swan is Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, UK, where she works on the politics of independence and union.