Narratives of Legitimacy: Making Nationalism Banal

Aronczyk, Melissa

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“…Leslie Sklair (1999) groups the multitude of understandings of globalization and respective scholarly approaches into four clusters: (a) the world-systems approach based on the distinction between core, semi peripheral, and peripheral countries in terms of their changing roles in the international division of labor dominated by the capitalist (Aronczyk, 2017;Castells, 2009;Kraidy, 2005;Sassen, 2006, Ch. 7-8;Steger, 2009).…”

Section: Digital Nationalism As (Global) Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Nationalisms: Identity, Strategic Communication, and Global Internet Governance

Budnitskiy¹

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A growing number of states in the twenty-first century have reimagined and rearticulated the role of digital technologies as indispensable to the nation's economic, cultural, and political success-and sometimes survival-under the conditions of digital globalization. Digital nationalism refers to this shift in the national state's imagination of digital technologies vis-à-vis their national Selves, as well as attendant discursive and material efforts at constructing and strategically communicating their national digital identities. On the one hand, this is a global trend, which is rooted in the rationalist imaginary and posits digital technological development as critical to economic growth and overall national well-being. On the other hand, and this is the crux of the argument underlying this dissertation, national cultural identities shape the specific logics and language of respective national digital rhetoric and policies.To illuminate the workings of digital nationalism, the dissertation examines how Estonia's and Russia's conduct in the domain of global internet governance-the design and administration of legal and technological architectures of the global internet and surrounding geopolitical debates-reflect their national identity visions. The dissertation argues that Estonia's championing of the "internet freedom" narrative is meant to bolster its central identity aspiration of symbolically and institutionally "returning to Europe" after half a century of the Soviet rule, while Russia's championing of "internet sovereignty" contributes to its identity narrative of a resurgent great power following its geopolitical decline in the first post-Cold War decade.The dissertation offers a critical cultural approach to the study of digital technological politics and aims to contribute to our understanding of the logics of digital iii globalization and global internet governance, contemporary nationalism, and sociopolitical trajectories in post-socialist Europe.

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Digital Nationalisms: Identity, Strategic Communication, and Global Internet Governance

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Spectacular Digitalization: Exploring the Role of Discourse and Education Technologies in (Re)producing the Imagined Community of the Nation

Piattoeva

2023

Historical Studies in Education

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From Russia with Lols: Humour, RT, and the Legitimation of Russian Foreign Policy

Crilley

Chatterje-Doody

2020

Global Society

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If this document is identified as the Author Accepted Manuscript it is the version after peer review but before type setting, copy editing or publisher branding From Russia with lols: Humour, RT, and the legitimation of Russian foreign policyThe Russian state funded international broadcaster RT (formerly Russia Today) is accused of pedalling misinformation, influencing foreign elections, and pursuing an agenda that claims legitimacy for Russian foreign policy. Whilst studies have so far analysed the content of RT's broadcast and social media output, they have yet to interrogate how Russian legitimation claims are often expressed on RT through a humorous form that blurs the lines between the genres of news reporting and comedy. This paper addresses this gap and places humour at the centre of analysis, arguing that humour, comedy and satire are fundamental to how RT claims legitimacy for Russian foreign policy. The article begins by introducing theories of legitimation to recent studies of comedy in global politics. It builds upon work that suggests that narrative and representation are key to contemporary legitimation processes, and highlights the important role that humour plays in such processes. We then examine RT's social media outputs and audience responses to those, and demonstrate how humour is central to how RT claims legitimacy for Russian foreign policy. From military intervention in Syria, to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, humour shapes how RT's legitimation claims are interpreted by audiences.

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Narratives of Legitimacy: Making Nationalism Banal

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Digital Nationalisms: Identity, Strategic Communication, and Global Internet Governance

Digital Nationalisms: Identity, Strategic Communication, and Global Internet Governance

Spectacular Digitalization: Exploring the Role of Discourse and Education Technologies in (Re)producing the Imagined Community of the Nation

From Russia with Lols: Humour, RT, and the Legitimation of Russian Foreign Policy

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