The Controversial Ethnogenesis of Macedonia

Abstract

It has become commonplace to contrast civic patriotism, which we applaud, with tribal nationalism that we deplore. The article argues that the distinction is too neat. Following the historical emergence of Macedonian national feeling, it explores the interplay of ‘nature’ and artifice in the coming about of the legitimating ideology of a recently established nation-state in the contingency of its emergence. It examines, furthermore, the predicament of a new state inserted among better-consolidated neighbors with strong national ideologies of their own and the role of the state in building the nation, which it seeks in turn to represent.

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