Meaning of nationalitarianism | Babel Free

Definitions

Support for an inclusive concept of nationhood that embraces all members of a society and not just a dominant elite.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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 […]”

“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 necessary but first step towards the wholesale reconstruction of society in the postcolonial era (Fanon 1968).”

“This is where, regarding the inclusive potentials of nation as concept, we can recall Deleuze and Guattari's emphasis on 'nationalitarianisms' (and not any singular dominant characteristic of 'national' as universal) […]”

CEFR level