The Local Life of Nationhood

Confino, Alon; Skaria, Ajay

doi:10.1080/14608940120115657

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“…Besides any political implications of local responses to globalisation processes, it becomes clear that identity constructions relate to geographical scales and, most importantly, to their mutual contingency as also Agnew and Brusa (1999) insightfully elucidate on the case of the Northern League in Italy. Similarly, Confino and Skaria (2002) confirm these findings from a historical point of view in that they point out that the local does not exist 'outside the national, but beyond and alongside it' (p. 7).…”

Section: Scalesupporting

confidence: 77%

Space and identity: constructions of national identities in an age of globalisation

Rembold¹,

Carrier²

2011

National Identities

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This article enquires how notions of national identities are still topical in recent scholarship at a time when processes of globalisation appear to be undermining the nation-state and its territorial power. The so-called spatial turn within the social sciences and humanities has exposed transnational, postcolonial and global aspects of identity constructions beyond the narrow borders of the nation and all things national. Stimulating historical and geographical research into nations and identities, this journal is informed by the same epistemology, tentatively located in postmodern thinking. Despite the prophecies of doom of postmodern enthusiasts, this study testifies to the continued relevance of borders and national attachments, albeit in terms of self-reflexivity.

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Section: Scalesupporting

confidence: 77%

Space and identity: constructions of national identities in an age of globalisation

Rembold¹,

Carrier²

2011

National Identities

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“…Foreign countries, such as Germany and its idea of Heimat, have been referred to as homelands (Confino and Skaria 2002). However, as Jason Dittmer (2005, 636) points out:…”

Section: Homelands In Geographymentioning

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American Homelands: Classroom Approaches Towards a Complex Concept

Post¹

2009

Journal of Geography

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Geographers, along with anthropologists and sociologists, have been debating the homeland concept as it applies in North America for decades. In recent years, the political ideology of the war on terror has added another dimension to this discussion. If the attention given to the concept by introductory textbooks is any indication, homelands are rarely discussed in our geography classrooms despite their critical relationship to our understanding of world and regional culture. This article calls for increasing our attention to homelands in the classroom as the concept serves as a readily available discussion topic with fruitful conclusions and student comprehension.

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“…The "nationalism of nationalists" or even what Billig (1995) has termed "banal nationalism" are completely different from the common sense of the nation. During the 2000s, the focus on official, elite, abstract nationalism has been replaced by an agency-centred literature on nation concentrated on the "local life of nationhood" (Confino & Skaria 2002). In contrast to Billig's discursively oriented approach, Thompson (2001) speaks of the 'local', rather than the 'banal', to discuss how individuals daily, actively, openly and often deliberately make sense of the nation, rather than being passively and unconsciously exposed to the banal 'flaggings' of the nation orchestrated by powers.…”

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Performing the nation between us: urban photographic sets with young migrants

Rossetto

2015

Fennia

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Rossetto, Tania (2015). Performing the nation between us: urban photographic sets with young migrants . Fennia 193: 2, 165-184. ISSN 1798-5617. First developed during the 1990s, the transnational paradigm in the study of migration has been associated with the notions of displacement, deterritorialisation and frictionless-ness. In more recent times, there has been a growing tendency to spatially ground transnational studies by locating and emplacing transnational practices. The emergence of the so-called transnational urbanism has led to a prolific urban stream within transnational research. With respect to the growing diversity of Western societies, this literature has tended to emphasise the potentialities of the city as the location of lived diversity, sharing, dynamism, vibrancy and encounter, in contrast to the deficiencies of the nation, identified with formal politics, discourse and ideology, singular belonging, fixity and constraint. Against this narrative of the city/nation divide, this article draws attention to the alternative conceptualisations of the nation that have emerged in recent debates and have embraced local, material and agency-based, rather than discursively-oriented approaches to the nation. As well as the city/nation divide, a progressive idea of the nation as shared experiences is analysed within an urban performance project which involved young migrants in the city of Padua (Italy) during winter 2013. These performances are read from the particular perspective of the scale debate, suggesting that, through the performance of urban heritage sites, those migrants physically and emotionally locate themselves within the hosting nation. Finally, I discuss this scalar shift and I propose extrapolating the concept of the "urban unconscious" to the national level, thus suggesting a way to think about the nation as a frame of co-existence and not as an identity bond.

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The Local Life of Nationhood

Cited by 44 publications

References 8 publications

Space and identity: constructions of national identities in an age of globalisation

Space and identity: constructions of national identities in an age of globalisation

American Homelands: Classroom Approaches Towards a Complex Concept

Performing the nation between us: urban photographic sets with young migrants

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