Everyday Nationhood: Theorising Culture, Identity and Belonging after Banal Nationalism

342 Pages·2017·3.24 MB·English

by  Michael Skey

Everyday Nationhood
Theorising Culture, Identity and Belonging
Banal Nationalism
after
Edited by Michael Skey and Marco Antonsich
Everyday Nationhood
Michael Skey · Marco Antonsich
Editors
Everyday Nationhood
Theorising Culture, Identity and
Belonging after Banal Nationalism
Editors
Marco Antonsich
Michael Skey
Loughborough, UK
Loughborough, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-57097-0 ISBN 978-1-137-57098-7 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57098-7
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In memory of Harry Michael Parsons
“This power is the thing I fought against and if it be crushed out of exist-
ence as a result of my fighting and that of all my contemporaries I shall have
done a good job of work. Above everything I have wished for peace and
goodwill” (24 June 1942)
Alla cara memoria di Gigi Antoni
Contents
Introduction: The Persistence of Banal Nationalism 1
Marco Antonsich and Michael Skey
Part I Critical Reflections on the Banal Nationalism Thesis
The Rhetoric of Nationalism 17
Craig Calhoun
The Universality of Banal Nationalism, Or Can
the Flag Hang Unobtrusively Outside
a Serbian Post Office? 31
Ivana Spasić
Banal Nationalism in the Internet Age: Rethinking
the Relationship Between Nations, Nationalisms
and the Media 53
Lukasz Szulc
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viii Contents
Part II Everyday Practices and Attitudes
The Name and The Nation: Banal Nationalism
and Name Change Practices in the Context
of Co-ethnic Migration to Germany 77
Gesine Wallem
Collective Charisma, Selective Exclusion
and National Belonging: ‘False’ and ‘Real’
Greeks from the Former Soviet Union 97
Manolis Pratsinakis
Humming Along: Public and Private Patriotism
in Putin’s Russia 121
J. Paul Goode
Nationhood as Cultural Repertoire: Collective
Identities and Political Attitudes in France
and Germany 147
Bart Bonikowski
Part III Affect
On Affect, Dancing and National Bodies 177
Elisabeth Militz
Making Sense of Everyday Nationhood:
Traces in the Experiential World 197
Shanti Sumartojo
Doing Affect Around National Days: Mundane/Banal
Practice or the Call of ‘Another Space’? 215
T. McCreanor, E. Muriwai, M. Wetherell, H. Moewaka Barnes
and A. Moewaka Barnes
Contents ix
Part IV The Transnational and the Global
Narratives of Legitimacy: Making Nationalism Banal 241
Melissa Aronczyk
Banal Nationalism and UNESCO’s Intangible
Cultural Heritage List: Cases of Washoku
and the Gastronomic Meal of the French 259
Atsuko Ichijo
Banal Nationalism and Consumer Activism: The Case
of #BoycottGermany 285
Eleftheria J. Lekakis
Part V Conclusion
Banal Nationalism and the Imagining of Politics 307
Michael Billig
Conclusion: The Present and Future of Nationalism 323
Michael Skey and Marco Antonsich
Index 335
About the Editors
Michael Skey is a Lecturer in Communication & Media at
Loughborough University. His research interests are in the areas of;
national belonging, globalisation, sociology of everyday life, media
events and rituals, mediatization, sport and discourse theory. He
has published widely on these topics and his monograph, National
Belonging & Everyday Life was the winner of 2012 BSA/Philip Abrams
Memorial Prize.
Marco Antonsich is a senior lecturer in Human Geography at the
University of Loughborough. His work lies at the intersection between
territory, power, and identity. More specifically, throughout his research
career, he has explored three themes: the production of Western geo-
political discourses; the relationship between territory and identity in
the age of globalization at multiple scales (local, regional, national, and
European); and, more recently, how togetherness in diversity is theo-
rized and lived within contemporary multicultural societies. Funded
by various institutions (U.S. National Science Foundation; NATO and
Italian National Research Council; CIMO-Finland; and the European
Commission), his work has appeared in leading academic journals:
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xii About the Editors
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Political Geography,
Progress in Human Geography, and Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers among others. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Geography
from the University of Trieste, Italy and a Ph.D. in Geography from the
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.