nation-building

nation-building (uncountable)

1. (political science) Unifying the people or peoples within a state so that it remains politically stable and viable in the long run.
   • 1977, Reinhard Bendix, Nation-building and Citizenship: Studies of Our Changing Social Order, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 357:

     Although uniquely favored by relatively viable political institutions, India yet shares this uncertainty with a large number of countries for which independence is but a first step on the road to nation-building.

   • 2018 January, Nikita Sleptcov, “Political Homophobia as a State Strategy in Russia”, in Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective‎^[1], volume 12, number 1, page 146:

     The state hierarchizes sexuality by defining homosexuality as an influence that corrupts minors. Such a discourse produces a notion of the correct sexual behavior that transcends into the political realm, reinforcing the heteronationalistic nature of the nation-building.

   • 2019 October 12, Brent Staples, quoting Danielle Battisti, “How Italians Became ‘White’”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 8 December 2019:

     The mythologizing, carried out over many decades, granted Italian-Americans “a formative role in the nation-building narrative.”

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