Plädoyer für eine kritische Historisierung des Nationenbegriffs

What is it about?

This article critically analyses concepts of the nation current mainly in the social sciences and social historiography and argues that the concept of the nation needs to widened to cover pre-nineteenth-century types of political groups such as indigenates allowing legal plralism and multiple collective identities.

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Why is it important?

The article is part of several attempts to revise the sterile discussion about the concept of the nation, so far having been restricted to the nineteenth and twentieth century.