The Nation-State and Processes of Majoritization and Minoritization

• The article engages how statehood and sovereignty are conceived and theorized and discuss the perils, benefits and possibilities that a sovereign state can embody in a world where the nation-states are viewed and cherished as the political standard of organizing human life. It is also equally important to look into the ways states construct majorities and minorities and justify relations of dominance and subordination, etnocultural primacy and cultural otherenss. In other words, how state with the help of nationalist ideas produces a master identity and marked groups whose lives, legal, political, cultural, economic status remain insecure and precarious.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Sociology

Sociologi

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)