Charles Tilly as a Theorist of Nationalism

✍ Scribed by Rogers Brubaker

• Book ID: 107600080
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 105 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-1232
• DOI: 10.1007/s12108-010-9107-9

✦ Synopsis

This paper considers Charles Tilly as an important but underappreciated theorist of nationalism. Tilly’s theory of nationalism emerged from the “bellicist” strand of his earlier work on state-formation and later incorporated a concern with performance, stories, and cultural modeling. Yet despite the turn to culture in Tilly’s later work, his theory of nationalism remained state-centered, materialist, and instrumentalist—a source of both its power and its limitations.