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Introduction: Problematising the Present

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This chapter makes the case for a genealogy of nationalism, whilst focusing on the ideal of homogeneous societies, what the known scholar on nations and nationalism Ernest Gellner defines as congruency of state and nation. This chapter argues, moreover, that to critically unpack nationalism and its power, we should go beyond a critique of statism, sovereignty and territoriality. Equally important, this chapter suggests that a psychoanalytical framework, particularly the concepts of lack and fantasy, are crucial to understand better the ‘endurance of nationalism.’ The chapter interrogates the contemporary regime of nation/state congruency in a myriad of political and International Relations theorisation and details the plan of the book.

There can be no good international system until the boundaries of states coincide as nearly as possible with the boundaries of nations.

(Bertrand Russell 1917: 146)

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Notes

  1. 1.

    I borrow this term from Walker (2006: 56–69).

  2. 2.

    This book deploys the Lacanian jouissance and the power of effect as part of fantasy, rather than focusing on bodily enjoyment and interpellation in the stories of specific national narratives. For the ways in which the Lacanian jouissance and affect are useful in explaining specific cases of national identity and belonging see, for instance, Eberle (2018), Edkins (2003), Kinnvall (2007), Solomon (2015), and Zevnik (2017), or my work on Israeli society and national identity in Mandelbaum (2012, 2018).

  3. 3.

    See https://peacemaker.un.org/cambodiaparisagreement91 [accessed 26 March 2019].

  4. 4.

    My point here is not to render the multiculturalist logic identical with the national-state practices of either expulsions or assimilation. Indeed, the rationale behind the various forms of multiculturalism and consociationalism is precisely to avoid conflict and preserve democratic values. Nonetheless, the multicultural project is still caged in the liberal-democracy paradigm of unity. This, in turn, results in the neglect of alternative models of societal organisation that reject the need to obtain congruency. The model of the NCA, national–cultural autonomy, as developed by Nimni (1999, 2007) and drawing on the work of Otto Bauer is exemplary of such overlooked models.

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