Abstract
Nationalist ideologies and practices have sought to appropriate and reconstruct notions of belonging. Various historians and theoreticians of nationalism have shown how nationalist discourses have come to replace other forms of belonging, whether local, religious or associated with specific lines of loyalties to specific political hierarchies. Under hegemonic discourses of nationalist politics of belonging the ‘nation-state’ has come to be the Andersonian (1983) ‘imagined community’ in which people, territories and states are constructed as immutably connected and the nation is a ‘natural’ extension of one’s family to which one should be prepared, if necessary, to sacrifice oneself. Or is it?
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