An alternative origin of nationalism in the East : the emergence of political subjectivity under the non-Western-centric world order

Ichijo, Atsuko (2024) An alternative origin of nationalism in the East : the emergence of political subjectivity under the non-Western-centric world order. In: Zhouxiang, Lu, (ed.) The Routledge handbook of nationalism in East and Southeast Asia. New York, U.S. : Routledge. pp. 48-59. (Routledge Handbooks) ISBN 9781003111450

Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003111450

Abstract

This chapter aims to critically examine consequences of the in-built Western centricity in social and political theories on our understanding of nationalism, in particular, regarding its origin and spread. Drawing from Eisenstadt’s multiple modernities thesis, this chapter explores possibility of alternative origins of nationalism by examining cases of Song China (960–1279), the Imjin War (1592–1598) and the rise of Kokugaku in eighteenth-century Japan to challenge the view that nationalism originated in the West and subsequently spread elsewhere.

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