IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL POLICY (JHSP )

E-ISSN 2545-5729
P-ISSN 2695 2416
VOL. 8 NO. 1 2022

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The Concept of Nationbuilding: Theoretical Expositions

Remi Chukwudi Okeke, PhD, Chinyere Patricia Ikeh, PhD & Christopher Chukwu Oku, PhD

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Abstract

The concept of nationbuilding probably possesses the weirdest trajectories of interpretation in the social sciences and the associated disciplines and endevours. Purposeful research undertakings in the affected fields entail properly reconciling the associated contradictions. But it appears as if scholars have given up on arriving at a modicum of relatedness in their different perceptions of nationbuilding. Hence, extant literature seems to be devoid of researches attempting to achieve the necessary conceptual linkages. There is an embedded pedantic hue in the positions of scholars exceedingly maintaining their viewpoints as what ought to be the correct usage of the concept. Others usually approach the conceptualization of nationbuilding from its mere linguistic dimensions. What truly is the meaning of nationbuilding? This paper aims at taking a position on the constructive definition of nationbuilding. The methodology of the work is qualitative and this possesses bearing with an inevitable approach of reviewing related literature. This article considers the inherent scenarios as academically unbecoming. The paper holds unassumingly that nationbuilding means the process of weaving an indomitable new nation out of a diversity of existing national inclinations. The paper’s standpoint is envisaged to provoke further researches in the area of searching for similarities among scholars’ perceptions of nationbuilding

keywords:

Nationbuilding, State building, Nationalism, Concept of nationbuilding, Building a nation

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