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Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Ghana, Independence Day is the most important national day and has been annually observed since the attainment of independence in 1957. Additional national days that various military governments introduced to commemorate their ascension to power have been rather short‐lived. Other holidays like Republic Day or Founder's Day have been longer
Carola Lentz
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Nacionalización y nacionalismo cotidiano: una panorámica

Historia Crítica
Objective/context: Studies on nationalism have recently evolved toward a growing interest in nationalization. In particular, greater attention has been paid to the construction of national identities “from below” and to the multiple ways in which, in ...
Claudio Hernández Burgos, Odilón Caldeira Neto   +1 more
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Memory, Crisis and Boundary Hardening: Historical Persecution Narratives and Attitudes Towards Arab Citizens of Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How is endorsement of a historical‐persecution narrative related to minority exclusion during crises? This article argues that historical persecution narratives are durable cultural resources whose political implications are neither uniform nor constant.
Yuval Feinstein, Gal Ariely, Daphna Canetti   +2 more
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Implicit Nationalism: The Missing Link in the Study of Nationalist Attitudes?

Socius
By combining research on banal and unconscious nationalism with cognitive psychology, this article outlines a novel framework for so-called “implicit nationalism.” In the first part of the article, I detail how different events, symbols, and discourses ...
Filip Olsson
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Can Nationalism Be Democratic?

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nationalism and democracy are often presented as natural allies: National self‐determination is best achieved through democratic institutions, while a shared national identity generates the trust and willingness to compromise that stable democracies need. This article, however, explores two possible points of conflict. The first concerns rival
David Miller
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The Nursemaid of Nations: The Beginnings of Banal Nationalism in Childhood

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Thirty years ago, Michael Billig's book, Banal Nationalism, recast nationalism as the force that normalises the division of the world into nations through the process of unmindful reminders serving the political project of nationalism, a project that seems ever more salient today. This article argues for the importance of childhood learning in
Katharine Throssell
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Materializing Palestinian nationhood in Lebanese exile. A comparative approach to different trajectories of displacement among Palestinian refugees

Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2023
Following a comparative approach, this article analyzes the nationalizing practices among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, in the form of material heritage.
Valeria RANDO
doaj  

“Original and Best”? How Barr’s Irn-Bru Became a Scottish Icon

Études Écossaises, 2017
Building on theories of banal nationalism developed by Michael Billig (1995) and Tim Edensor (2002), this paper focuses on how a major 20th century icon of popular Scottishness, the carbonated drink Irn-Bru, has depended on the question of origins in its
David Leishman
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Left, Right and Centre: National Political Authority and Its Symbolisation

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This lecture explores ideas through which we both do and analyse national politics in the modern world, as both concepts and symbols, examining three conceptual pairs: Left/Right, Centre/Periphery and Liberal/Authoritarian. I argue that Left/Right is a symbolic structure that is necessary for democratic politics, but not reflective of deep ...
Jonathan Hearn
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Sub‐State Nationalism and the Pandemic: Everyday Constitutional Reasoning and Welsh Political Autonomy During Covid‐19

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between Covid‐19 attitudes and Welsh national sentiment, focusing on how the pandemic shaped public evaluations of Welsh autonomy within the United Kingdom's devolved governance structure. Drawing on survey and qualitative interview data, it shows that Covid‐19 did not simply shift support for greater ...
Robin Mann, Chris Saville, Aidan Bark‐Connell, Stella Nyame, John Parkinson, Daniel Rhys Thomas   +5 more
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