THE POLITICAL ARC OF NATIONALISM: MODERNITY, OBLIGATION(S) AND THE ‘COMMUNITY’

Syed Muntaza Hussain; Asif Gulzar Bhat; Maria Shahid; Nahida Fida

doi:10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i2.2024.5031

Authors

Syed Muntaza Hussain Research Scholar at the Department of English Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002
Asif Gulzar Bhat
Maria Shahid
Nahida Fida Ph.D. Scholar University of Kashmir

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i2.2024.5031

Keywords:

Nationalism, Liberal Nationalism, Ethnic Nationalism, Cultural Nationalism, Ideology

Abstract [English]

This paper aims to excavate the notion of political community enshrined in the concept of Nationalism. It seeks to understand the way in which the concept of Nationalism, whether as an ideology or a doctrine, inscribes the political ontology of 'community' understood as a nation. Further, this allows us to render the notion of obligation inherent in the concept, which structures the hierarchy of obligations informing a community wherein the idea of political obligation is understood to be foremost. Accordingly, the paper proceeds in three sections: the first provides an overview of the literature describing the various iterations of modern Nationalism; the second seeks to explain the political ontology of the collective/community/nation in the concept of Nationalism, thereby drawing out notion(s) of obligation embedded in its various iterations; the third section looks at the temporal and spatial arc of/in Nationalism which deals with Nationalism as an ideology relating it both to its historical character and its political (ideological) future(s).

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