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ethnonationalism

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ethnonationalism (countable and uncountable, plural ethnonationalisms)

  1. A type of nationalism which defines the nation in terms of a shared ethnicity.
    • 1987, Walker Connor, “Ethnonationalism”, in Understanding Political Development: an Analytic Study, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 196:
      It risks triteness to note that during the past two decades ethnonationalism has been an extremely consequential force throughout the first, second, and third worlds.
    • 1998, William A. Douglass, “A western perspective on an eastern interpretation of where north meets south: Pyrenean borderland cultures”, in Nation and State at International Frontiers, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 73:
      This ultimate concern underscores the elitist, bourgeois and ultimately conservative dimension that is one of the several faces of Catalan ethnonationalism, although in fact throughout its history the movement has a history of 'pacting' across class lines.
    • 2010, Moira Inghilleri, Sue-Ann Harding, Translation and Violent Conflict, page 228:
      As central Party control weakened, independence demands grew in other republike, inspired in part by local ethnonationalisms and fear of living in a Yugoslavia dominated by Serbian ethnonationalists.
    • 2011, Andrew Wilson, Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 157:
      Since 1863 Polish 'National Democrats' like Roman Dmowski had abandoned the idea of a multinational commonwealth for a more 'modem' Polish ethnonationalism.
    • 2019 November 4, Liam Stack, quoting Greg Johnson, “American White Nationalist Is Arrested in Norway”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      In the post, Mr. Johnson wrote that his initial reaction to Mr. Breivik’s killing spree was “largely anger, because I feared that his actions would harm not just Norwegian ethnonationalism but white nationalism around the world.”
    • 2021 November 17, Srecko Latal, “Bosnia Is On the Brink of Breaking Up”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN:
      In Bosnia and Herzegovina, ethnonationalism has taken center stage. Mr. Dodik is not alone in his radical ways: Muslim Bosniaks, the largest ethnic group, have agitated for a unitary state, and Bosnian Croats have demanded an autonomous Croat region.

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