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Rethinking banal nationalism: Banal Americanism, Europeanism, and the missing link between media representations and identities [PDF]

, 2015
This article was published in International Journal of Communication ©Vera Slavtcheva-petkova under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This article questions some tacit assumptions underpinning Michael Billig’s banal nationalism concept but also confirms the ongoing ...
Slavtcheva-Petkova, Vera
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Choosing Jordanianness

Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
This article investigates the dialogic construction of Jordanian identity discourse as reflected through the production of everyday discourse on the nation, following both Anderson’s (1983) idea of nation as a ‘socially constructed community’ and Billig ...
Yousef Barahmeh, Jona Fras
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Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu, Busani Maseko, Liqhwa Siziba   +2 more
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“Meme-Ing” Peace in Northern Ireland: Exploring the Everyday Politics of Internet Memes in Belfast Riots

International Journal of Communication, 2023
How do Internet memes about political violence in postwar Belfast speak to or against the peacebuilding process in Northern Ireland? Our findings demonstrate three dominant ways in which memes engage with such violence: (a) poking fun at violence, (b ...
Ivan Gusic, Martin Lundqvist
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‘What We Teach Is True to Us’: Non‐National Students and the Boundaries of Belonging in Dubai's Schools

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘What we teach is true to us’, one social studies teacher reflected when describing the curricular standards guiding his Dubai classroom. But who, in Dubai's multinational classrooms, gets to be part of that ‘us’? Private secondary schools in Dubai have become productive sites for state‐led civic nationalist projects. The United Arab Emirates'
Christian Bevilacqua
wiley   +1 more source

Türkiye medyasında banal milliyetcilik [PDF]

, 2013
"Türkiye yazılı basınındaki banal milliyetçilik"le ilgili olan bu tez, Türkiye medyasmdaki milliyetçi söylemi analiz etmeyi amaçlar. Çalışma, milliyetçi söylemi daha iyi anlamak için, 'sıradan' bir gün olan 7 Mart 2012'de basılan
Kazancı, Handan
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National Landscape with Lenin in the Background: Imagined National Communities in the Former Eastern Bloc

Studia Litteraria et Historica, 2018
The paper is a critical review of two recently published monographs on the subject of the everyday and banal forms of nationalism in the post-socialist countries of Europe and Asia.
Xawery Stańczyk
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Unmarked Emotional States and the Affective Anchoring of Continuity

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Narratives around emotions often foreground remarkable episodes that interrupt situations, producing a “rollercoaster” image of emotional life that leaves its stability underdescribed. To analyze the emotional dimension of social continuity, this article theorizes unmarked emotional states (UES): culturally default, interactionally unobtrusive
Lorenzo Sabetta
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Banal nationalism and literary memory: corpus-based approaches to political figures in modern Arabic fiction

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Politics and literature have always been intertwined in the Arab context. This study re-examines that relationship at scale through a computational analysis of political figures in modern Arabic fiction. Drawing on a curated corpus of 100 novels authored
Emad Mohamed, Mai Zaki
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The discursive construction of collective narratives on Portuguese national identity: homogeneity or diversity?

Comunicação e Sociedade, 2018
Mainstream conceptions of the “authentic” or “real” Portugal are now so naturalized in national discourse that many of the socio-historical contexts of their discursive construction have been erased from people’s collective memory (-ies).
Filipa Perdigão Ribeiro
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