Nationalism in Settled Times

Bart Bonikowski

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    Abstract

    Due to a preoccupation with periods of large-scale social change, nationalism research had long neglected everyday nationhood in contemporary democracies. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to shift the focus of this scholarly field toward the study of nationalism not only as a political project but also as a cognitive, affective, and discursive category deployed in daily practice. Integrating insights from work on banal and everyday nationalism, collective rituals, national identity, and commemorative struggles with survey-based findings from political psychology, I demonstrate that meanings attached to the nation vary within and across populations as well as over time, with important implications for microinteraction and for political beliefs and behavior, including support for exclusionary policies and authoritarian politics. I conclude by suggesting how new developments in methods of data collection and analysis can inform future research on this topic.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)427-449
    Number of pages23
    JournalAnnual Review of Sociology
    Volume42
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jul 30 2016

    Keywords

    • Collective identity
    • Culture and cognition
    • Nationalism
    • Political culture
    • Practice theory

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Sociology and Political Science

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