ABSTRACT
Since the nation remains the primary identity around which lives are organised in contemporary times, a study of how gender matters in world politics is incomplete without a gendered analysis of how nationalism, including its populist variant, operates in different parts of the world. In this chapter, I first outline the main theoretical debates related to nationalism and then analyse the ways in which gender is central to understanding nationalism. I also point to the importance of gender in populist forms of majoritarian nationalism, especially the right-wing forms. Rather than offer a cosy accommodation between feminism and nationalism, I emphasise that a genuine democratic space, in which all forms of diversities, justices and freedoms are valued, necessitates a feminist politics that challenges nationalisms and populisms and the processes through which these ideologies are sustained.
