How to examine attitudes to a homeland? Towards the typology of irredentism

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Joanna Rak

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The specific aims of the article are to scrutinise the most meaningful works on irredentism published in last years, establish the distinctive features of the types of irredentism, and determine the criteria of the typology formulation. The qualitative content analysis of secondary literature is employed to examine methodological and theoretical approaches towards a theoretical category of irredentism application to empirical studies. This article compares and evaluates them critically to solve two research problems: what types of pitfalls occur when formulating a theoretical category of irredentism and employing it to empirical studies, and how to improve analytical value of this category using the ideal typical approach. The main purpose of the article is to construct the typology of irredentism which would make methodological contribution to social science. It applies the method of ideal types in Max Weber’s view to phrase the set of theoretical categories which constitute the gradual typology outlined according to the homogenous criterion of the extent of the valorisation of the homeland.

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Rak, J. (2017). How to examine attitudes to a homeland? Towards the typology of irredentism. Aportes. Revista De Historia Contemporánea, 32(95). Recuperado a partir de https://www.revistaaportes.com/index.php/aportes/article/view/295
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Joanna Rak, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Joanna Rak, Doctora en Ciencias Políticas, es profesora del departamento de Cultura Política de la Universidad Adam Mickiewicz de Poznan (Polonia). Es experta en temas de cultura de la violencia donde trabaja su proyecto „Basque Revitalization: The Continuance Trajectory of ETA”. Es autora de “A typology of cultural attitudes as a device describing political thought of the populations influenced by globalization.” Anthropological Notebooks 21(2): 55–70, 2015; “Contra-Acculturative Thought as the Source of Political Violence.” Terrorism and Political Violence 28(2): 363–382, 2016; “In the search for theoretical approaches to studying attitudes toward antipoverty, policy in Passarinho.” Anthropological Notebooks 22(2): 119–128, 2016; “Intrastate, Regional, and Colonial Contributions to Post-2008 Cultures of Political Violence.” Polish Political Science Yearbook 46(1): 1–8, 2017; “Dealing with Trauma Experience and Political Violence Memory.” Qualitative Sociology 40(2): 259–262, 2017; “Russia, ‘Near Abroad’, and the West: Struggling with the Research Field of Geopolitical Cultures.” Geopolitics, 1–7, 2017.