Reimagining the nation : togetherness, belonging and mobility
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Reimagining the nation : togetherness, belonging and mobility
（Policy Press shorts, . Research）
Policy Press, 2017
- : hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references (p.105-120) and index
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Description
This book develops new ways of thinking beyond the nation as a form of political community by seeking to transcend ethnonational categories of 'us' and 'them'. Drawing on scholarship and cases spanning Pacific Asia and Europe, it steps outside assumptions linking nation to state.
Accessible yet theoretically rich, it explores how to think about nationhood beyond narrow binaries and even broader cosmopolitan ideals. Using cutting-edge critical research, it fundamentally challenges the positive connotations of British patriotism and UK politics' increasingly shrill anti-immigrant discourse, pointing to how these continue to reproduce vocabularies of belonging that are dependent on ethnonational and racialised categorisations.
With a cross-continental focus, this book offers alternative ways of thinking about togetherness and belonging that are premised on mobility rather than rootedness, thereby providing a constructive agenda for critical nationalism studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Brexit Nation
2. Home and Belonging
3. 'The Europe we want'
4. Sea as a Political Space
5. Representation beyond the Nation
6. Conclusion
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