What's the difference between denationalize and nationhood?
Denationalize
Definition:
(v. t.) To divest or deprive of national character or rights.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blacks are denationalized and disenfranchized in South Africa and their mobility is strictly controlled by the pass system, but their situation is even worse in the so-called 'homelands', where repression has replaced the rule of law.
(2) Blacks and progressive whites are banned, terrorized, detained without trial, tortured, and murdered by the state; the Africans are not only disfranchised but are now also being denationalized and deprived of their ancient birthright to this richly-endowed part of Africa.
Nationhood
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Arguing for a new nation state, the white paper understands that the old tropes of nationhood will no longer do, though until recently they sustained the anglophobic tendency of everyday nationalism, though until recently they sustained the anglophobic tendency of everyday nationalism.
(2) Speaking scientifically about the nation – for instance in terms of macroeconomics – is an insult to those who would prefer to rely on memory and narrative for their sense of nationhood, and are sick of being told that their “imagined community” does not exist.
(3) It is a story recalled by its main players in a series of remarkably frank conversations as one of unlikely alliances and bitter divisions, a clash of power, identity and the deepest questions of nationhood.
(4) At its height, the welfare state was a symbol of nationhood and solidarity that helped Scots to feel at home in Britain.
(5) Then came Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem , a wild, unfettered meditation on nationhood that became one of the biggest-grossing new plays in West End history, a battered lament for Englishness that has now found a home on Broadway ( on Sunday, Mark Rylance's central performance took a Tony award ; the production will return to the UK, with Rylance, this autumn).
(6) British nationhood is just 300 years old, a blink in human history.
(7) In the Middle East, where sport has over the past 15 years become increasingly important as a means of projecting soft power and building nationhood, involvement in bidding for events and climbing the greasy pole in international sports organisations has become a useful means of obtaining and retaining personal standing.
(8) All the mad conflicts over nationhood and identity and constitutional structures had ceased to trouble the essential British settlement.
(9) Above all, the identity politics of nationhood and belonging, Englishness and Scottishness, has completely transformed our political culture.
(10) In the second half of the 20th century, these people, exhausted by the struggle with themselves and against one another, had need of a unifying figure to give them a vision of nationhood.
(11) Many of the props of nationhood date from this era: be it the union flag, Jerusalem, Rule Britannia, the tune of the national anthem or the mapping of the nation in the form of Ordnance Survey maps.
(12) Clegg told The Andrew Marr Show on BBC1: "I certainly think in many ways actually what the Scottish people want isn't exactly on the ballot paper – which is a greater expression of Scottish nationhood, greater devolution of powers from London to Holyrood, what is called in the jargon "devo-max" or in Liberal Democrat language, ever since the days of Gladstone, home rule.
(13) On 12 January 2015 this article was amended to change “Australian sovereignty” to “Australian nationhood” in the third last paragraph.
(14) Photograph: Queenie Mckenzie estate When considering the cultural resonance of frontier war it helps to remember that the last widely-accepted massacre, at Coniston in the Northern Territory in 1928, is considerably closer to the living memory of the communities it affected than the invasion of Gallipoli in 1915 - the first act in a war that would kill about 62,000 Australians and, contestably, define the nationhood of the new federation (incidentally, one of the main perpetrators of the Coniston Massacre was a Gallipoli veteran, George Murray, who would later boast in an interview about killing territorial Aboriginals.)
(15) Because if the commonwealth of Australia can do that then we can do it ... what makes it more real?” Staying real, Murrumu recently won another small step on the road to commonwealth and Queensland recognition of Yidindji nationhood when a local church school accepted a Yidindji birth certificate to enrol his son.
(16) Constable's Salisbury Cathedral is a sublime image of Britishness, of nationhood, just as Turner's two canvases of the rise and fall of the Carthaginian empire comment more sceptically on the fate of opulence.
(17) Naturally, the constitutional argument remains crucial – independence as an expression of nationhood.
(18) Michael Kenny is professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, and author of The Politics of English Nationhood (Oxford University Press)
(19) The other part is about how powerful political ideals became invested in these techniques: ideals of “evidence-based policy”, rationality, progress and nationhood grounded in facts, rather than in romanticised stories.
(20) The unresolved question of Indigenous sovereignty burns at the core of Australian nationhood.