Everyday Nationhood Theorising Culture Identity and Belonging after Banal Nationalism 1st Edition by Michael Skey,Marco Antonsich 1137570989 9781137570987

Part I Critical Reflections on the Banal Nationalism Thesis

The Rhetoric of Nationalism

The Pervasive Flagging of Nations

Hot Nationalism Depends on Banal Nationalism

Ideologies, Imaginaries, and Rhetoric

Nationalism, Good and Bad?

Conclusion

References

The Universality of Banal Nationalism, Or Can the Flag Hang Unobtrusively Outside a Serbian Post Off

Serbs in Banal Nationalism: From Antithesis to Assimilation

Is There Such a Thing as Serbian Banal Nationalism?

The Flag(s)

‘Novak Is Us!’

What Is Banal in Banal Nationalism?

Conclusion: The Normative in Banal Nationalism

References

Banal Nationalism in the Internet Age: Rethinking the Relationship Between Nations, Nationalisms and

Banal Cosmopolitanism: Against Methodological Nationalism

To What Extent and How Are Nations and Nationalisms Being Reproduced on the Internet?

Heterogeneous Nations and Dynamic Nationalisms: Against Sociological Essentialism

What Kind of Nations and Nationalisms Are Being Reproduced on the Internet?

Active Audiences: Against Technological Determinism

What Role Do Online Reproductions of Nationalism Play in the Construction and Sustenance of National

Conclusions

References

Part II Everyday Practices and Attitudes

The Name and The Nation: Banal Nationalism and Name Change Practices in the Context of Co-ethnic Mig

Normality, Stigma, and Management Practices of ‘Spoiled Identities’

The Administrative Procedure of Name Change as a Practice of National ‘Normalisation’

Stigmatisation and Practices of Identity Management in Everyday Life

Conclusion

References

Collective Charisma, Selective Exclusion and National Belonging: ‘False’ and ‘Real’ Greeks f

Introduction

The Established–Outsider Model and the Study of Everyday Nationhood

Established and Outsider Nationals

The ‘Return’ of the Greeks from the Former Soviet Union

Native and ‘Soviet Greeks’ in Nikopoli

Encounters in the Neighbourhood

The ‘False Greeks’

Conclusion

References

Humming Along: Public and Private Patriotism in Putin’s Russia

A Note on Method

Official Patriotism in Russia

Banal or Activated Patriotism?

Private Patriotism in Russia

Conclusion: Humming Along, for Now

References

Nationhood as Cultural Repertoire: Collective Identities and Political Attitudes in France and Germa

Varieties of Nationalism in Comparative Research

Cultural Repertoires: An Alternative Comparative Framework

Data and Methods

France and Germany: Aggregate Differences

Repertoires of Nationhood in France and Germany

Nationalism and Political Attitudes

The Path Forward

References

Part III Affect

On Affect, Dancing and National Bodies

Research Context: Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan

Dancing in Azerbaijan

Affect as Conceptual Perspective

Autoethnography as Research Methodology

Legitimising National Difference, Reinforcing Banal Nationalism

Conclusion

References

Making Sense of Everyday Nationhood: Traces in the Experiential World

Introduction

Tracing an Emergent Everyday Nationhood

National Atmospheres: The Eventful and the Everyday

Conclusion

References

Doing Affect Around National Days: MundaneBanal Practice or the Call of ‘Another Space’?

Introduction

Affect and Social Practice

Waitangi Day and Anzac Day

Building for Affect

Choreographing Affect

Affective Positioning, Canonical Feeling

Counter-Hegemonic Practices

Conclusions

References

Part IV The Transnational and the Global

Narratives of Legitimacy: Making Nationalism Banal

Strategic Banality

Justificatory Logics

Categorical Treachery

Narratives and Networks of Legitimacy

“Cuban Twitter” and Banal Nationalism

Nationalism’s Character

References

Banal Nationalism and UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List: Cases of Washoku and the Gastron

Introduction

Food, Banal and Everyday Nationalism

UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List: Where International Governance Meets the Banal

The Inscription of Washoku

The Gastronomic Meal of the French

Concluding Remarks

References

Banal Nationalism and Consumer Activism: The Case of #BoycottGermany

Introduction

Banal Nationalism, Everyday Nationhood and the Eurozone Crisis

Method

The Transnational ‘We’ and Everyday Resistance Through the Politics of Consumption

Waving Digital Flags: Between Resistance and Reinforcement

Conclusion

References

Part V Conclusion

Banal Nationalism and the Imagining of Politics

References