Mapping the nation

Part of Verso's classic Mapping series that collects the most important writings on key topics in a changing world.In nearly two decades since Samuel P.

Huntington proposed his influential and troubling AAAa AaAAaAaAAAAAaAAAAaAAAaAA!AAaAaAAAAAAAaAA'AAaAaAaclash of civilizationsAAAa AaAAaAaAAAAAaAAAAaAAAaAA!AAaAaAAAAAaAAAAaAAAaAA?AAaAaAA thesis, nationalism has only continued to puzzle and frustrate commentators, policy analysts and political theorists.

No consensus exists concerning its identity, genesis or future.

Are we reverting to the petty nationalisms of the nineteenth century or evolving into a globalized, supranational world?

Has the nation-state outlived its usefulness and exhausted its progressive and emancipatory role?

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Smith, Katherine Verdery, and Sylvia Walby.