Demokrati och nationella fantasier

Föreställningar om identitet och tillhörighet i studier av demokrati

Bibliographic Data

ID10756607
AuthorsMagnus Dahlstedt (0000-0003-0694-5753, Linköping University, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume38
Issue3-4
Pages40-70
Publication date2001-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologisk Forskning (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0342 • E-ISSN: 2002-066X
PublisherSociologisk Forskning, Swedish Sociological Association (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.37062/sf.38.19459
OpenAlexW4299818633
LanguageEN
References cited20

Democracy and national imagination: assumptions of identity and belonging in studies on democracyUntil recently, questions of migration and ethnic relations were hardly discussed within political research on democracy. Categories such as ‘nation’, ‘culture’ and ‘ethnicity’ have been taken for granted, looked upon as self-evident and independent factors. Research on democracy has generally been permeated by what might be called ‘national imagination’, a nation-state-centred and ethnocentric paradigm, where homogenous national belongings and national borders have been assumed, advocated and legitimated as fundamental elements of political life. Within this kind of paradigm, ethnic minorities have been represented as fundamentally ‘different’ from the ‘norm ality’, that is ethnic majority populations. In general, phenomenon such as mix of cultures, border-crossing and migration have been portrayed as in itself abnormal, disrupting and problematic features of political life. The conclusion in the article is that it is necessary to question and to challenge hegemonic conceptions of identity and belonging in research on democracy

Aesthetics · Democracy · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Ethnocentrism · Hegemony · Identity (music · National identity · Norm (philosophy · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy

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