Affective nationalism

Antonsich, Marco; Skey, Michael

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“…This is all the more intriguing if we recall that our research took place in "Euro-phile" London and its surrounding areas, including Brighton, where large majorities voted "remain." By following the recommendation of Antonsich and Skey (2016) to further interrogate historically uneven power formations, we were able to expose some of the embedded national, ethnic, and cultural hierarchies of privilege, value, and desirability ascribed to different European migrants. These differences are perpetuated and intensified between the desirable whiteness of "old" or "West" Europeans versus the "Eastern" newcomers, seen as poorer and rougher, coming from more economically backward countries of origin.…”

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“…Not only were nationalist and populist slogans sparked off among the British, but the revision of hierarchies of "whiteness" and "worthiness" provoked intense emotional reactions among our informants too. In connection to this, we want to bring in the recent geographical debate on "affective nationalism" (Antonsich & Skey, 2016;Merriman & Jones, 2017) and what some authors call "affective atmospheres" (e.g., Anderson, 2016;Wetherell, 2013). Merriman and Jones (2017) use the notion of "affective nationalism" to stress the intermittent, emergent, and relational character of "nation," which creates affective manifestations of nationalism.…”

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And then came Brexit: Experiences and future plans of young EU migrants in the London region

Lulle

Moroşanu

King

2017

Population Space and Place

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This paper investigates the potential rupture that the United Kingdom's "Brexit" referendum of June 23, 2016, might bring about in intra-European Union youth mobilities, with a specific focus on the London region. In many respects, and counter-intuitively given the Brexit result, London has already become a "Eurocity": a magnet for young people, both highly educated and less educated, from all over Europe who, especially since the turn of the millennium, have flocked to the city and its wider region to work, study, and play. Now, these erstwhile open-ended migration trajectories have been potentially disrupted by a referendum result that few anticipated, and whose consequential results are still unclear. The main theoretical props for our analysis are the notions of "liquid migration," "tactics of belonging," "whiteness," "privilege," and "affect." Data are drawn from 60 in-depth interviews with Irish, Italian, and Romanian young-adult students and higher and lower skilled workers, carried out in late 2015 and early 2016, plus 27 reinterviews carried out in late 2016, post-Brexit. Results indicate participants' profound and generally negative reaction to Brexit and, as a consequence, a diversity of uncertainties and of plans over their future mobility: either to stay put using "tactics of belonging," or to return home earlier than planned, or to move on to another country. Finally, we find evidence that new hierarchies and boundaries are drawn between intra-European Union migrants as a result of Brexit. (Engbersen & Snel, 2013). We find these constitutive elements of liquid migration attractive for our study of contemporary youth migration within Europe, although some of our findings suggest that flexibility, openness to opportunities, and the search for security are more realistic characteristics of migrant motivations and behaviour than "intentional unpredictability."In the literature on youth life-course transitions, two concepts are important for our analysis in this paper. On the one hand, the "inclination to constant change" referred to in Bauman's quote above is advanced by Worth's (2009) notion of youth and young-adulthood as a continuous process of "becoming": we see this as more relevant and appropriate to our analysis than the traditional practice of agedefined life stages. On the other hand, the reality of sudden changes due to "fragility and vulnerability" (Bauman again) is nicely highlighted in the term "rupture" (Hörschelmann, 2011). Taken together, the notions of "rupture" and "becomings," combined with the framework of liquid migration, constitute a useful conceptual toolkit for understanding the social and spatial mobilities of young European Union (EU) citizens, both before and after the referendum of June 23, 2016, which saw 51.9% vote "leave" and 48.1% "remain."According to Bauman (2000, p. x), the key to the puzzle of liquid modernity is the premise that the "liquidity versus solidity conundrum"is not a dichotomy but that both conditions should be seen and treated as a couple "lock...

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And then came Brexit: Experiences and future plans of young EU migrants in the London region

Lulle

Moroşanu

King

2017

Population Space and Place

124

137

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“…Given that affective nationalism has been criticised for a lack of attention to power and agency (Antonsich and Skey, 2016), a focus on Britain's white middle-classes that brings whiteness and privilege into view, encouraging greater awareness of the inequalities that shape 'affectual economies of nation' (Tolia-Kelly, 2006, p. 126), also provides a useful corrective.…”

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The dis/comfort of white British nationhood: encounters, otherness and postcolonial continuities

Clarke

2019

Social & Cultural Geography

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Recent work on the affective dimensions of nationhood, identity and belonging has often overlooked discomfort in favour of positive experiences of sameness and security. Contrary to this tendency, this paper, based on interview narratives produced with white British middle-class people in the suburbs of London, examines the role of discomfort in experiences of nationhood, as well as the nature and meaning of that discomfort. In the first part of the paper, I demonstrate how nationhood becomes in and through uncomfortable encounters with other people, places and objects. Then, in the second part, I show how, for some, the experience of becoming national in encounters with the "other" is itself experienced uncomfortably in the context of a postcolonial Britain where people are expected to 'love themselves as different' (Fortier, 2007). On the one hand, the paper challenges the idea of privileged national belonging as wholly comfortable. Yet, the analysis also exposes the relative comfort of white British people's nationhood. The paper offers important insight into the uneven and hierarchical nature of contemporary nationhood and highlights the value of attending to the entanglement of comfort and discomfort in work on affective nationalism.

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“…We thank Marco Antonsich and Michael Skey for their critical engagement with our Progress in Human Geography article on 'Nations, materialities and affects' (Merriman and Jones, 2016;Antonsich and Skey, 2016). In seeking to move beyond an approach grounded in Billig's (1995) idea of 'banal nationalism' -and more recent work on nations approached through the lens of the everyday, performance and materiality (e.g.…”

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