Analysis tools for a better understanding of nationalism and nations. From discursive framework to objects
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to deepen analysis tools that enable social science a better understanding of nationalism and nations. To this end I will revisit Alfonso Pérez-Agote's thesis, whose work has become one of the leading references of the Spanish social science in this field. I will first outline the discursive framework in which the social sciences have analyzed nations and nationalism. Then I take sides in some of the major debates on these objects of study that have taken place in recent decades, revisiting the main Perez-Agote's contributions. I will examine issues such as the definition of the nation, the phenomenological and genetic perspectives, the mechanisms of reproduction of the idea of nation and the concept of boundaries. Finally the article concludes with a contribution on the centrality of the "objects" in shaping national communities.
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nationalism, nations, boundaries, ethnicity, objects
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