Abstract

In the last decade or two we have seen the remarkable rise of research interest in questions of 'national identity'. This preoccupation has shifted the ground so much that it is now difficult to think of a sociology of ethnicity without a key focus on nation, nationalism, and national identity. We could say it has taken us a long time to get here: as long ago as 1981 Anthony Smith was telling us that modern nations and their nationalist stories bring ethnic communities into existence as political entities:

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