nationalitarianism

plural nationalitarianisms

1. countableuncountablegovernmentSupport for an inclusive concept of nationhood that embraces all members of a society and not just a dominant elite.

   This is where, regarding the inclusive potentials of nation as concept, we can recall Deleuze and Guattari's emphasis on 'nationalitarianisms' (and not any singular dominant characteristic of 'national' as universal) […]

   2021, Ian Buchanan, editor, Deleuze, Guattari and India: Exploring a Post-Postcolonial Multiplicity

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   The fact remains, however, that Arab nationalitarianism cannot be based only on a community of civilization or on the assumption of shared material interests; it requires a third constitutive factor, which draws on the other two and yet is distinct […]

   1983, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Contemporary Arab Political Thought, page 147

   He distinguishes between the bourgeois nationalism which represents the interest of the indigenous élites, and a liberationist, anti-imperial, internationalist nationalism (which Lazarus terms “nationalitarianism” [Lazarus 1994; Abdel-Malek 1981]) which views the attainment of nationhood as a necessary but first step towards the wholesale reconstruction of society in the postcolonial era (Fanon 1968).

   2004, Neil Lazarus, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies