nationalitarianism
nationalitarianism noun: support for an inclusive concept of nationhood that embraces all members of a society and not just a dominant elite.
Noun
nationalitarianism (countable and uncountable, plural nationalitarianisms)
- Support for an inclusive concept of nationhood that embraces all members of a society and not just a dominant elite.
- The fact remains, however, that Arab nationalitarianism cannot be based only on a community of civilization or on the assumption of shared material interests; it requires a third constitutive factor, which draws on the other two and yet is distinct […]1983, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Contemporary Arab Political Thought, page 147
- He distinguishes between the bourgeois nationalism which represents the interest of the indigenous élites, and a liberationist, anti-imperial, internationalist nationalism (which Lazarus terms “nationalitarianism” [Lazarus 1994; Abdel-Malek 1981]) which views the attainment of nationhood as a...2004, Neil Lazarus, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies
Forms of nationalitarianism
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Origin of nationalitarianism
From nationalitarian + -ism
Questions about nationalitarianism
- What does nationalitarianism mean?
- Nationalitarianism means support for an inclusive concept of nationhood that embraces all members of a society and not just a dominant elite.
- What part of speech is nationalitarianism?
- Nationalitarianism is a noun.
- What is the plural of nationalitarianism?
- The plural of nationalitarianism is nationalitarianisms.
Words near nationalitarianism in the dictionary
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