When is a Nation? Comparing Lithuania and Georgia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948327 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Christophe (0000-0001-8630-2533, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-172 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/714000937 |
| OpenAlex | W1999100060 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The article uses a constructivist reformulation of the question 'when is a nation?' as a parameter of comparison for the analysis of nationalist discourses on history in post-socialist Lithuania and Georgia. It shows that Lithuanian nationalists, by means of a critical reassessment of national history, described the nation as something that still had to be created, whereas Georgian nationalists referred to the unchallenged image of a glorious past and so treated the nation as something to be simply picked up from history. It is also argued that these diverging historiographical narratives correspond to different conceptualisations of the notion of the nation. While Lithuanians nationalists conceptualised the nation in the tradition of the French Revolution as a category that aims at the reconfiguration of state-society relations, Georgian nationalists identified it with traditional modes of organising social relations
Georgian · Historiography · Linguistics · Lithuanian · Narrative · National history · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2014 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |