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The idea of nationalism and the ideal of the ‘nation-state’ were not necessarily based on ethnicity. Rather they stressed the voluntary coming together of people in a state with a shared culture. That is how Gellner analyses the character of ‘nation-states’. For him, ethnicity is not a ‘given’, but a construct of the state itself.
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© 1998 James G. Kellas
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Kellas, J.G. (1998). Ethnic and Social Nationalism. In: The Politics of Nationalism and Ethnicity. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26863-4_5
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