Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Nation Building

The concept nation building is a political process of nation’s formation, undertaken by governmental structures (communication networks, an educational system based on sole national language etc) serving for one primary principle: centralization of a decision making process and extension of it’s control over subjugated population[1]. Miroslav Hroch points at three constant factors of the nation-building process: 1. Remembrance of the common past, perceived as a “fate” of a particular group; 2. Tightnees of the lingusitic and cultural links, contributing to the high level of social communication, as an in-group level, as well as outside of it; 3. An equality of all members of the group, organized in the form of civil society[2].
[1]Nationalism Study Project: Anthony D. Smith – Nationalism and the Reconstruction of Nations http://www.nationalismproject.org/what.htm
[2]Nationalism Study Project: Anthony D. Smith – Nationalism and the Reconstruction of Nations http://www.nationalismproject.org/what.htm

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