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This chapter summarises the key findings and suggests potential future avenues of theoretical investigation, to further understanding in this field. It argues that the research makes key contributions in several areas; in theoretical and methodological terms; in country-specific terms in Welsh and Basque scholarship, confirming existing positions, challenging previous theories and generating new research particularly in the Basque context; and in terms of the utility of comparing Wales and the Basque Country as case studies. It further suggests key elements of a future research direction.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Walker Connor, Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994).

  2. 2.

    Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism (London: Sage, 1995).

  3. 3.

    Montserrat Guibernau, Nations Without States: Political Communities in a Global Age (Cambridge: Polity, 1999).

  4. 4.

    David McCrone, The Sociology of Nationalism (London and New York: Routledge, 1998).

  5. 5.

    Daniele Conversi, ‘Reassessing Current Theories of Nationalism: Nationalism as Boundary Maintenance and Creation’, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 1.1 (1995).

  6. 6.

    Anthony P. Cohen, The Symbolic Construction of Community (London and New York: Routledge, 1985).

  7. 7.

    Richard Jenkins, Social Identity , 3rd edn. (London and New York: Routledge, 2008).

  8. 8.

    Jennifer Todd, ‘Social Transformation, Collective Categories and Identity Change’, Theory and Society, 34.4 (August 2005).

  9. 9.

    Cohen, The Symbolic Construction of Community.

  10. 10.

    Jenkins, Social Identity , 3rd edn.

  11. 11.

    McCrone, The Sociology of Nationalism .

  12. 12.

    Bhikhu Parekh, ‘The Concept of National Identity’, New Community, 21.2 (1995), 255–268.

  13. 13.

    Connor, Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding.

  14. 14.

    McCrone, The Sociology of Nationalism .

  15. 15.

    Frederick Barth, ed., Ethnic Groups and Boundaries (Boston: Little, Brown, 1969).

  16. 16.

    Cohen, The Symbolic Construction of Community.

  17. 17.

    Jenkins, Social Identity , 3rd edn.

  18. 18.

    McCrone, The Sociology of Nationalism .

  19. 19.

    Parekh, ‘The Concept of National Identity’.

  20. 20.

    Jennifer Todd, ‘Social Transformation, Collective Categories and Identity Change’, Theory and Society, 34.4 (August 2005).

  21. 21.

    Steve Fenton, ‘Indifference Towards National Identity: What Young Adults Think About Being English and British’, Nations and Nationalism , 13.2 (2007), 321–339.

  22. 22.

    Paul Brass, ed., Ethnic Groups and the State (London and Sydney: Croom Helm, 1985); Paul Brass, Ethnicity and Nationalism : Theory and Comparison (London: Sage, 1991).

  23. 23.

    V. P. Gagnon Jr., The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004).

  24. 24.

    Diego Muro, ‘The Politics of War Memory in Radical Basque Nationalism’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 32.4 (2009), 659–678.

  25. 25.

    Jelena Obradović-Wochnik, ‘The “Silent Dilemma” of Transitional Justice: Silencing and Coming to Terms with the Past in Serbia’, The International Journal of Transitional Justice, 7.2 (2013), 328–347.

  26. 26.

    Jonathan Bradbury and Rhys Andrews, ‘State Devolution and National Identity: Continuity and Change in the Politics of Britshness and Welshness in Wales’, Parliamentary Affairs, 3.2 (2010), 229–249.

  27. 27.

    Bradbury and Andrews, ‘State Devolution and National Identity: Continuity and Change in the Politics of Britshness and Welshness in Wales’.

  28. 28.

    Brass, ed., Ethnic Groups and the State; Brass, Ethnicity and Nationalism : Theory and Comparison.

  29. 29.

    Bradbury and Andrews, ‘State Devolution and National Identity: Continuity and Change in the Politics of Britshness and Welshness in Wales’.

  30. 30.

    Brass, ed., Ethnic Groups and the State; Brass, Ethnicity and Nationalism : Theory and Comparison.

  31. 31.

    Obradović-Wochnik, ‘The “Silent Dilemma” of Transitional Justice: Silencing and Coming to Terms with the Past in Serbia’.

  32. 32.

    Gagnon Jr., The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s.

  33. 33.

    Diego Muro, ‘The Politics of War Memory in Radical Basque Nationalism’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 32.4 (2009), 659–678.

  34. 34.

    Institute of Welsh Affairs, Report on the IWA Cardiff Media Summit (Cardiff: IWA, November 2015).

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Williams, S. (2019). Conclusion. In: Rethinking Stateless Nations and National Identity in Wales and the Basque Country. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91409-1_6

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