Guest Editor’s Introduction: “Everyday Nationalism in World Politics: Agents, Contexts, and Scale”

Goode, J. Paul

doi:10.1017/nps.2020.73

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“…Following up on Hegel’s observation, do secular daily practices such as reading national newspapers actually replace and thus lead to a decline in daily religious practices such as “morning prayers”? Given the centrality of this dynamic to the claims regarding “nationalism as a modern secular religion,” it is surprising that we do not have systematic cross-national, subnational, and longitudinal studies measuring whether nationalist practices of everyday life (Goode and Stroup 2015; Bonikowski 2016; Goode 2020) replace religious practices of everyday life, such as daily prayers, or attendance in Friday Prayers, Sunday Mass, and observance of the Sabbath. In contrast, the extent to which religious rituals increase or decrease ethnonational or religious intolerance, has attracted more systematic attention recently, which will be reviewed further below.…”

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Nationalism and Religion in Comparative Perspective: A New Typology of National-Religious Configurations

Aktürk

2021

Nationalities Papers

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Does religion motivate and intensify nationalism, or does religion moderate and even suppress nationalism? Six kinds of relationships between nationalism and religion are critically reviewed: nationalism as a modern religion in competition with traditional religions; religious origins of the “Chosen People” as the mythomoteur of nationalism; religious exclusion as nation-building; religious influences on national policies; influence of religious observance on national identification; and religiously based “civilizations” transcending nationalisms. Western Christian experience with nationalism is not generalizable due to the institutional autonomy and supranational organization of the Catholic Church. Western European nationalisms were premised on religious sectarian homogeneity, and the homogenous “confessional state” served as the template of European nation-states. Furthermore, I argue that the late medieval eradication of Muslims and Jews across Western Europe prefigured sectarian and ethnonational purges of the following centuries. Finally, I argue that different configurations of religion and nationalism depend on two critical conditions: the degree to which the dominant religious tradition is doctrinally supraethnic and institutionally transnational, and the religious identity of the main adversary in the constitutive conflict that culminated in national statehood. The crises of Marxism and liberalism provide the context for the resurgence of religion and nationalism at present.

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Nationalism and Religion in Comparative Perspective: A New Typology of National-Religious Configurations

Aktürk

2021

Nationalities Papers

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“…In 2008, Fox and Miller-Idriss proposed a research “methodology that looks not first to political speeches, newspaper articles or history textbooks for the nation’s everyday meanings, but rather puts the questions to the audiences of the speeches, the readers of the newspapers, and the pupils of history – and to those who don’t listen to speeches, read papers or do their history lessons” (555). The methods of getting at the everyday are evolving, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, ethnographic observation of patterns of consumption and an expanding list of other social practices, and media analysis, including social media (Goode 2020). This study uses qualitative interviews with questions that address not only “ what the nation means” to people, but also “ when the nation matters to them” (Fox and Miller-Idriss 2008, 557).…”

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A New German ‘We’? Everyday Perspectives on Germanness and its Boundaries

Nedelsky

2023

Nationalities Papers

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This study employs the “everyday nationhood” approach to explore how ordinary, ethnically diverse, native-born Germans in Berlin, Dresden, and Leipzig understand what it means to be German and whether outsiders can join that group. It puts findings from qualitative interviews conducted in Berlin in fall 2015 and in Dresden and Leipzig in April 2016 into conversation with two large-scale surveys conducted at about the same time. The interviews complicate the surveys’ finding that Germanness is now based primarily on language skills, citizenship, and workforce participation, as the respondents indicated that phenotype, ethnicity, and religion act as daily barriers to membership. This highlights the utility of the everyday nationhood approach for identifying how social categories are both understood and enacted through everyday practices of social inclusion and exclusion.

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“…Rather, everyday nationalism is interested in the social practices and processes beyond (or, in this case, below) the state to disclose the ‘vernacular understandings’ and everyday experiences of nationalism (Brubaker et al, 2006: 9). With an emphasis on the perspectives of ordinary people, who are regularly ‘missing’ from the dominant scholarship (Fox & Miller‐Idriss, 2008; Goode, 2020), this framework includes both the more visible daily practices, encounters, and self‐conceptions, and the specific idioms and common knowledge associated with individual nations. Although resembling Michael Billig's (1995) ‘banal’ nationalism, everyday nationalism is less interested in the larger institutions and structures which shape and/or construct nationalism than the ways people negotiate, (re)produce, and challenge the nation through their everyday practices (Fox & Miller‐Idriss, 2008).…”

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“…Even though simple and seemingly mundane everyday tasks like volunteering and cleaning drastically vary from the overt expressions of nationhood typically recognised as ‘nationalism,’ within the context of the war, these actions inherently show Ukrainian citizens' dedication to ensuring the preservation and continuation of their nation for future generations. Like this, national sentiments have been renegotiated and redefined at the grassroots in response to Russia's antagonism as ordinary practices have come to intrinsically demonstrate a commitment to the Ukrainian nation (Fox & Miller‐Idriss, 2008; Goode, 2020).…”

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Nation‐building from (below) the grassroots: Everyday nationalism in Ukraine's bomb shelters

Howlett

2022

Nations and Nationalism

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Life has profoundly changed for Ukrainian citizens since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war. While millions have fled Ukraine as refugees and displaced persons, others have remained in their cities to take up arms, volunteer, and/or shield for safety. Despite the devastation at all levels of society caused by Russia's ongoing attacks, Ukrainians' expressions and practices of nationhood have endured and even evolved in light of their country's war-torn reality, as is especially evident in the country's bomb shelters. As hegemonic theorising in nationalism studies often centres on the territorial state and its institutions, this paper instead considers the experiences of ordinary individuals who hold important colloquial and vernacular knowledge. Specifically, the project examines the everyday lives of Ukrainians at-or below-the grassroots within bomb shelters in the heavily attacked cities of Chernihiv, Kyiv, and Kharkiv to reveal how Ukrainian nationalism has manifested and even been (re)produced amidst the conflict. In demonstrating that nationalism has served as both a sentiment and expression of self, the findings emphasise its significance in the current conflict as a motivating and unifying force in Ukrainians' everyday lives.

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Guest Editor’s Introduction: “Everyday Nationalism in World Politics: Agents, Contexts, and Scale”

Cited by 10 publications

References 45 publications

Nationalism and Religion in Comparative Perspective: A New Typology of National-Religious Configurations

Nationalism and Religion in Comparative Perspective: A New Typology of National-Religious Configurations

A New German ‘We’? Everyday Perspectives on Germanness and its Boundaries

Nation‐building from (below) the grassroots: Everyday nationalism in Ukraine's bomb shelters

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