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Re‐Interpreting Cultural Nationalism
Author(s) -
Hutchinson John
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
australian journal of politics and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-8497
pISSN - 0004-9522
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8497.00072
Subject(s) - nationalism , modernization theory , cultural nationalism , sociology , character (mathematics) , political economy , political science , epistemology , environmental ethics , law , philosophy , politics , geometry , mathematics
This article reviews standard and recent interpretations of cultural nationalism. It rejects “invention of tradition” perspectives, and assumptions that it is a surrogate statist movement, concerned with cultural homogeneity, that it is archaising in character, and that it is a transient movement, incompatible with full modernisation. It argues cultural nationalism seeks to “rediscover” an historically‐rooted way of life; its concern is communitarian; that cultural nationalists act primarily as moral and social innovators; and that it is a recurring movement, embedded in the modern world.