Giddens Anthony

Giddens, Anthony 1985. The Nation-state and Violence. Cambridge Polity... 

Giddens, Anthony. The Nation-State and Violence Volume Two of A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism (Cambridge Polity Press in association with Oxford Basil Blackwell, 1985). 

We apply concepts from sociologist Anthony Giddens (1984, 1991) "structuration approach" to provide the overall framework in which we evoke an image of the future of mobility and thus the context into which hydrogen and FCVs may enter. We use this framework to deepen social science theorizing about the future of mobility and thus to provide social and lifestyle variables for the discussion of transportation, energy, and the environment. 

What I call the nation-state approach is formulated in different ways based on how the relation between nationhood and statehood is interpreted. States can simply be defined as nations. Anthony Giddens argues that a nation exists only when a state has a unified administrative reach over the territory over which its sovereignty is claimed. In this view, units that do not have corresponding states are referred to as nations only mistakenly. To discuss their political situation, Giddens argues, some other category of description should be used. 

Different versions of the nation-state definition are supported in Margaret Canovan, Nationhood and Political Theory (Cheltenham, UK Edward Elgar, 1996), pp. 69, 119 Ernest GeUner, Nations and Nationalism (Oxford Basil Blackwell, 1983), pp. 1, 43 and Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence, volume 2 of A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism (Cambridge Pohty Press, 1985), p. 119.1 consider these three definitions on the next section. 

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