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Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 461-472, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores how Finnishness is constructed in media texts with and through plastic buckets. By so doing, the article contributes to research on materiality and nationalism through examining the role of a mundane object instead of official national symbols.
Alma Onali
wiley   +1 more source

Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 282-291, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Transnational practices redefine nationalism: a nonterritorial sense of belonging for groups and extraterritorial sovereignty for states. Territory is at the core of the analysis in both cases. For groups and communities' transnationalism leads to a new imagined community guided by an “imagined geography” that is not territorial.
Riva Kastoryano
wiley   +1 more source

Nation‐Building in the Wake of Empire: Identifying Patterns of Minority Policies in the Aftermath of Soviet Collapse

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 386-401, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The collapse of the USSR forced newly independent states to forge national identities while grappling with imperial legacies. This study investigates nation‐building strategies in post‐Soviet states during 1990–1999, using the Nation‐Building Policies (NBP) dataset from the ETHNICGOODS project, which includes all socially and politically ...
Emre Amasyalı, Andrei Tarasov
wiley   +1 more source

From Commonplace Diversity to Relational Hybridization: Everyday Interculturalism in Rome's Banglatown

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores the social transformation of Rome's Banglatown, located in the Torpignattara neighbourhood, as a case of everyday interculturalism. Through ethnographic fieldwork with the Bangladeshi diaspora, it examines how diversity is lived, negotiated and reconfigured in the spaces of daily interaction.
Andrea Pelliccia
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing National Higher Education Brands: Korea, India and Israel Compared

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines the websites of the national higher education (HE) brands of Study in Korea, Study in India and Study in Israel, exploring how these ‘offbeat’ destinations position themselves in the global HE market. Drawing on rhetorical analysis and employing a qualitative comparative case study approach, it reveals the key identity ...
Annette Bamberger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Tribe to Nation: Assessing the Influence of Political Exclusion and Access to Mobilization Resources on Kurdish Ethnonationalism

open access: yes, 2018
More than nine of every ten ballots dropped into ballot boxes scattered across Iraqi Kurdistan in late September affirmed a national desire for independence.

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Enduring Crises of the Nation‐State: How Spatial Imaginations Reshape Identity and Dis/Unity

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities.
Erdem Bekaroğlu, Suat Yazan
wiley   +1 more source

Creating a Female Space Within Neo‐Nazi Movements: The British Movement's Women's Section in Flintshire

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT In September 1976, British Tidings, a publication of the Neo‐Nazi political organisation, BM, announced they were to begin a women's division. Their Headquarter was based in Queensferry, Flintshire, North Wales; on the cusp of the English border.
Katherine Niamh McCoubrey
wiley   +1 more source

Between Liberal and Illiberal Visions of Society: Elite–Voter Ideological Congruence in Finland

open access: yesScandinavian Political Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This study addresses a research gap in the scholarship on elite–voter linkages by focusing on ideological issue congruence between party elites and voters on a liberal–illiberal scale. Prior research has predominantly focused on congruence with respect to issue‐specific positioning, whereas comparatively limited scholarly attention has been ...
Thomas Karv, Kim Backström
wiley   +1 more source

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