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nation-building en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Unifying the people or peoples within a state so that it remains politically stable and viable in the long run.
    • The mythologizing, carried out over many decades, granted Italian-Americans “a formative role in the nation-building narrative.” 2019 October 12, Brent Staples, quoting Danielle Battisti, “How Italians Became ‘White’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2019:
    • 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. 1977, Reinhard Bendix, Nation-building and Citizenship: Studies of Our Changing Social Order, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 357:
    • 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. 2018 January 14, Nikita Sleptcov, “Political Homophobia as a State Strategy in Russia”, in Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective, volume 12, number 1, page 146:

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Translations (7)

vi xây dựng đất nước (unifying the people within a state) · ru национа́льное строи́тельство (unifying the people within a state) · uk націєтво́рення (unifying the people within a state) · pl budowa narodu (unifying the people within a state) · kmr netewesazî (unifying the people within a state) · fi kansakunnan rakentaminen (unifying the people within a state) · fa ملتسازی (unifying the people within a state)