(National) pride and (conceptual) prejudice: critical remarks on the distinction between patriotism and nationalism

Bitschnau, Marco; Mußotter, Marlene

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“…This pair has long been used in a somewhat binary sense, as describing two alternative ways of having a positive attitude to one’s own nation, yet with different normative implications and with different associations with other attitudes and behaviors, and notably, measured by separate sets of questions. Mußotter (2021) and Bitschnau and Mußotter (2024) recount most of the critical aspects of that usage and conclude that this pair of terms is far from binary and clear, but they do not suggest stable solutions yet. Mußotter (2023) very recently proposed one modification of the established measurement “tool set” that separates nationalism, patriotism, and democratic patriotism as a further component, and where she also drops the previously used items and references to the term “pride” that had proven particularly problematic (Meitinger, 2018).…”

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Introduction to the special issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology on “National identity, nationalism, patriotism, and globalization”

Quandt,

Schmidt

2024

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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This editors’ introduction into the themed issue of IJCS dedicated to the analysis of comparative survey work on national identity and globalization presents a very brief overview of core hypotheses from the five articles collected in the issue. The articles offer a variety of new, rather differentiated insights into how individual-level national identity attitudes and sibling concepts like national pride, patriotism, and nationalist chauvinism are related to societal-level variables that tend to vary with exposure to aspects of globalization, such as migrant influx and economic competition. Aside from the focus on those new contributions, the introduction also offers a few observations on the challenges that the wider national identity research field still faces. Given that the field is dealing with several overlapping attitude concepts, this centrally concerns a partial lack of conceptual clarity, which sometimes translates into ambiguous operationalizations and incomplete or imprecise explication of theoretical mechanisms. We conclude that the contributions of the themed issue, with their careful attention to particular aspects of measures and multi-level processes, may serve as another stepping stone for overcoming at least some of those challenges in the future.

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Introduction to the special issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology on “National identity, nationalism, patriotism, and globalization”

Quandt,

Schmidt

2024

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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“…Indeed, objections have been mentioned, if at all, only briefly and have lacked detail. Only recently have scholars begun to critically and thoroughly engage with the NPD in both conceptual and empirical terms (notably, Mußotter, 2022; see also Bitschnau & Mußotter, 2022). Though earnest discussion has been largely absent from the discourse, the existing critique can be structured into three different strands: conceptual critique, normative critique and empirical critique.…”

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The evolution of the civic–ethnic distinction as a partial success story: Lessons for the nationalism–patriotism distinction

Piwoni

Mußotter

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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“…Despite being so deeply embedded within our societies, however, nationalism continues to ‘have a bad reputation today’ (Wimmer, 2019: 1). The negative connotations associated with the term ‘nationalism’ and being a ‘nationalist’ have even led far‐right political parties and individuals to reject being labelled as ‘nationalists’ and to adopt the term ‘patriots’ instead: one example being the protesters who stormed the US Capitol in January 2021 having been told by Donald Trump to ‘patriotically make their voices heard’ (Bitschnau & Mußotter, 2022: 3). Within the scholarly literature, the dichotomy between ‘good patriotism’ vs ‘bad nationalism’ continues to be accepted; so much so, that it has been characterized as an ‘embedded liberal bias in academic concepts’ (Hanson & O’Dwyer, 2019: 792).…”

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‘Emancipatory nationalisms’? The nationalisms of nations without states

Khandy

Şengül

2022

Studies Ethnicity & National

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In today's seemingly ever-globalizing societies, nationalism remains a potent force, most recently illustrated by national governments' responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Even though nationalism and its manifestations are deeply entrenched within societies, the term 'nationalism' itself continues to carry negative connotations, and the dichotomy between 'good patriots' vs 'bad nationalists' appears to be widely accepted in everyday life and the scholarly literature. Likewise, the association of 'good' (meaning 'civic' nationalism) with Western and 'bad' (for which read 'ethnic') nationalism with Eastern forms of nationalism remains prevalent. In this special issue, we critique these Eurocentric approaches to nationalism, highlighting two aspects of nationalism that are often overlooked: 1) nationalism takes many forms, and rather than viewing it as 'good' or 'bad, it should be understood as a spectrum spreading across the Global North and South; 2) there is an emancipatory and creative potential within nationalism for marginalized and colonized peoples that has been illustrated through cases from the Global South. This potentialrepresented by the 'nationalisms of nations without states'forms the central concern of this special issue. Our selection of cases from both the Global North and South reflects our own approach to nationalism.Nationalism continues to be a major global force in contemporary societies due to the many disorienting effects of globalization. The COVID-19 crisis, for instance, has illustrated how national borders, both within the European Union (EU), where borders have practically become redundant, and between states outside the EU, still have the greatest impact on our ever-globalizing societies. Despite being so deeply embedded within our societies, however,

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(National) pride and (conceptual) prejudice: critical remarks on the distinction between patriotism and nationalism

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Introduction to the special issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology on “National identity, nationalism, patriotism, and globalization”

Introduction to the special issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology on “National identity, nationalism, patriotism, and globalization”

The evolution of the civic–ethnic distinction as a partial success story: Lessons for the nationalism–patriotism distinction

‘Emancipatory nationalisms’? The nationalisms of nations without states

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