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Architecture, banal nationalism and re‐territorialization
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2003This article concerns the relationship between architecture, territory and identity within major city‐regions, and attempts to unpick notions of cultural and aesthetic meanings stemming from particular mega‐projects. Debates over the form and function of major new architectural projects reveal ongoing attempts by territorial elites to re‐narrate ...
McNeill, Donald, Tewdwr-Jones, Mark
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Against Banal Inter-nationalism
Asian Journal of Social Science, 2014AbstractThis article discusses, with an emphasis on Japanese and East Asian contexts, the ways in which the increasing pervasiveness of the inter-nationalised modes — “inter-national” with a hyphen in the sense of highlighting the nation as the unit of global cultural encounters — of production, circulation and consumption of media cultures makes ...
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Banal Nationalism, Football, and Discourse Community in Africa
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2011AbstractThe article argues that despite the continuing relevance of ethnicity, the idea of the nation has taken root among Africans. This is due to a combination of factors, including the universal ideology of the nation‐state, the impact of the existence of such national borders on the imagination, and the influence of national symbols and icons ...
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The Banal National Party: the routine nature of legitimacy
Patterns of Prejudice, 2009Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the far right in Britain, under the auspices of the British National Party (BNP), has made noteworthy electoral gains. Under the leadership of Nick Griffin, the party has placed great emphasis on modernization.
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Banal Symbols of the New Nation-State
2014One common feature of all independent nation-states—both Western and non-Western—is that they possess unique national symbols such as a national flag, a national anthem, a coat of arms, and other banal insignia and emblems to distinguish them from other nation-states. For the newly independent countries that want to emerge from international obscurity,
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Banal nationalism and queers online: Enforcing and resisting cultural meanings of .tr
New Media & Society, 2014Focusing on daily (re)productions of national identities online, in this article, I investigate a particular country-code Top-Level Domain, .tr for Turkey. I follow Billig’s concept of ‘banal nationalism’ to argue that .tr (re)produces online Turkish national imaginations.
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Narratives of Legitimacy: Making Nationalism Banal
2017The chapter examines a set of strategic narratives by which national interests and values are successfully maintained among various populations. Such narratives are “banal” in the sense that they are deliberately not labeled nationalist. They derive their power by obscuring the ways national interests and values are reproduced in various political and ...
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