Stating culture: colonial matrices

Grim Up North: Northern England, Northern Europe and Black Metal

“…Poddar (2003) discusses discourses of "truth" and the nation in relation to Foucault's critique of truth and power, and relates this to the way nations are constructed through the assertion of boundaries through normative judgements, exclusionary procedures and processes of "differential identity formation" (Poddar 2003, p. 271). The idea of symbolic boundaries helps unravel the issue of insiders and outsiders.…”