This commentary argues that Grounded Nationalisms is both empirically and theoretically sophisticated, not least for showing substantively how nationalism has become a crucial form of modern subjectivity. This argument is suggestive, too, for understanding how this subject/ivity is underpinned by nationalism’s political – not economic or developmental – functionalism in the modern era. Yet there is still great scope for better grasping the critical ways in which ‘race’ – nation’s politically functional twin in modern subjectivity – can be similarly grounded and similarly defines drives for homogeneity.
