Nationalism

Abstract

In this chapter, seven specific aspects of nationalism, which define the main features of contemporary debate and dissent, are discussed to illustrate the ways in which nationalism currently figures in cultural geography and closely allied fields. To geographers, the most outstanding feature of nationalism is its unvarying claim to a territorial homeland. Tying the nation to territory has often involved identifying a prototypical landscape as representative of the collective identity. The “long-distance nationalism” of “absent patriots” is taken seriously, it is as a novel phenomenon tied to the nationalist proclivities of groups of recent immigrants from formerly colonial countries to the countries of Western Europe and North America. There are cases where religion and nationalism have been almost complete partners, as with, for example, the Greek and other Orthodox Christian churches. Women's roles in politics seem to decline along with the rise of nationalism.

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