nationalitarianism

English

Etymology

From nationalitarian +‎ -ism

Noun

nationalitarianism (countable and uncountable, plural nationalitarianisms)

1. (politics) Support for an inclusive concept of nationhood that embraces all members of a society and not just a dominant elite.
   • 1983, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Contemporary Arab Political Thought, page 147:

     The fact remains, however, that Arab nationalitarianism cannot be based only on a community of civilization or on the assumption of shared material interests; it requires a third constitutive factor, which draws on the other two and yet is distinct […]

   • 2004, Neil Lazarus, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies:

     He distinguishes between the bourgeois nationalism which represents the interest of the indigenous élites, and a liberationist, anti-imperial, internationalist nationalism (which Lazarus terms “nationalitarianism” [Lazarus 1994; Abdel-Malek 1981]) which views the attainment of nationhood as a necessary but first step towards the wholesale reconstruction of society in the postcolonial era (Fanon 1968).

   • 2021, Ian Buchanan, editor, Deleuze, Guattari and India: Exploring a Post-Postcolonial Multiplicity:

     This is where, regarding the inclusive potentials of nation as concept, we can recall Deleuze and Guattari's emphasis on 'nationalitarianisms' (and not any singular dominant characteristic of 'national' as universal) […]

See also

• nationalism
• nationalist