Introduction: Negotiating Territoriality and Nationalism
Abstract
Our contemporary societies are increasingly diverse and interconnected.
These developments have, on the one hand, brought up questions of how
to manage the ensuing diversity and, on the other, of how to retain people’s
sense of community and belonging. Increased diversity has spurred
a range of schemes bent on multicultural accommodation and “soft”
forms of integration. At the same time, in recent years, we have witnessed
significant nationalist reactions against globalisation, immigration, cultural
diversity and multiculturalist visions and policies. Brexit, the election
of Donald Trump as US President and the general rise of right-wing
populist parties are part of a new nationalism that propounds an exclusivist—
ethnic—nationalism that is deeply committed to reducing immigration
and the ensuing cultural diversity...