Titre
Switzerland as a "fractured" nation
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Chollet, A.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
ISSN
1469-8129
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2011-10
Volume
17
Numéro
4
Première page
738
Dernière page/numéro d’article
755
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
This article deals with Swiss nationalism and Swiss nation-building. Its main thesis is that Switzerland cannot accurately be described as either a nation or a non-nation but is something in between, and could thus best be characterised as a 'fractured' nation. Switzerland has experienced some powerful nationalist moments, from the creation of the Swiss state in 1848 to the last few decades. Yet this recurrent nationalism among the Swiss, considered alongside their more traditional reluctance to consider themselves a nation, make Switzerland a peculiar object: a 'fractured' nation. This flawed process of nation-building in turn reveals some basic characteristics of all nations - inherent artificiality, and the tremendous efforts undertaken to hide it. Switzerland could be considered an unfinished, incomplete nation, and this is precisely why its study can be interesting for scholars of nations and nationalism.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_F310A670913E
Date de création
2015-11-14T17:03:53.595Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-21T06:15:05Z