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The fallacy of national studies

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22/08/2019
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Kamusella, Tomasz Dominik
Keywords
Nationalism
Nationalism studies
Social reality
Einzelsprache
Politics
Nation-building
Nation-state building
Fallacy
Reasoning
Ideology
Power
Legitimacy
D901 Europe (General)
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National studies is a broad field of academic pursuits potentially comprised of all the social sciences and humanities, though its typical core is limited to philology, history and ethnography (also known as folklore studies or ethnology). In Central Europe (also in Japan and southeast Asia), where the ethnolinguistic kind of nationalism predominates for building, legitimising and maintaining nations and their nation states, national studies are the main intellectual cornerstone of these processes. As such the ideal of dispassionate and disinterested research open to all is abandoned, and scholarship is harnessed into the service of the state-led national idea. The resultant subservience of research to ideology requires the adoption of circular logic among proponents and practitioners of national studies that better serve the national interest. Language, history and culture are nationalised and essentialised. The basic assumption of this development is that a given nation’s language, history and culture are fully accessible and knowable exclusively to the nation’s members. Scholars sticking to this dogma are assured of employment at state-owned and state-approved universities, while those whose research contradicts cherished assumption of the national idea are summarily ostracised in order to bring them into line or make them leave academia.
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Kamusella , T D 2019 , The fallacy of national studies . in J Fellerer , R Pyrah & M Turda (eds) , Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe . Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe , Routledge , London .
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Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe
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Copyright © 2019 Publisher / the Author. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://www.routledge.com/9780429282614
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21633

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