Reflections on Krste Misirkov’s Theory: From Ethnocultural Entity to Politically Legitimate Nation
Reflections on Krste Misirkov’s Theory: From Ethnocultural Entity to Politically Legitimate Nation

Summary/Abstract: In order to present some of the aspects that created the preconditions for the Macedonian nation-building process and its political legitimacy, this paper reviews the Macedonian question through the works of Krste Misirkov and his struggle for the separation and recognition of Macedonian ethnocultural entity as a distinct one. His conceptions are analysed through the lens of modernist theories of nation and nationalism, with special emphasis on the following aspects: nation as a historically and socially formed construct, a sense of common belonging, high cultures and standardized languages as the political legitimacy of a nation, the role of cultural elites in the nation-building process, and the relationship between the nation and the modern state.

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