State and Majority Nationalism in Plurinational States

This book brings together the leading lights in nationalism studies to turn their attention to the neglected role of the state in nationalist disputes. With case studies from China, Spain, UK, Canada, India and Nepal, it examines state and majority nationalism in all its guises, asking how states respond to nationalist challenges from below.

Daniel Cetrà is Beatriu de Pinós Research Fellow at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He specialises in nationalism, comparative territorial politics, and the politics of language. Coree Brown Swan is Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Queen's University Belfast, UK, where she works on the politics of independence and union.

1. State and Majority Nationalism in Plurinational States: Responding to Challenges from Below 2. Making Hong Kong Chinese: State Nationalism and its Blowbacks in a Recalcitrant City 3. From Civic Pluralism to Ethnoreligious Majoritarianism: Majority Nationalism in India 4. Why Stay Together? State Nationalism and Justifications for State Unity in Spain and the UK 5. Performing Canadian State Nationalism through Federal Symmetry 6. The Politics of Diversity Treatment in Contemporary Nepal: From Difference Elimination to Difference Management? 7. Majority, State Nationalism, and New Research Pathways