Economic nationalism: Bringing the nation back in

This article reconsiders economic nationalism in three ways. First, the literature on economic nationalism is reviewed. The concerns of state have overshadowed the intricacies of national identity in most treatments of economic nationalism and, in this way, nation has been taken out of the discussion. Second, a parallel problem is found in the literature on national identity and nationalism, where nation is most often defined in socio-cultural terms with little consideration of how economic practice might symbolise nation. This oversight, it is argued, ultimately impoverishes theory of both national identity and economic nationalism. Finally, an attempt is made to bring an expanded definition of national identity, one that encompases representations of economic life as well as socio-cultural memories, back into debates of economic nationalism.