The Mediation of Nationhood: Communicating the World as a World of Nations

Skey, Michael

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“…To acknowledge the dynamics between banal and hot nationalisms, some scholars propose the concept of everyday nationhood, pointing out that ordinary people not only reproduce nationalism unconsciously, as in Billig's (1995) thesis, but also deploy it more consciously and creatively (e.g. Antonsich 2016; Fox and Miller-Idriss 2008;Skey 2014).…”

Section: Heterogeneous Nations and Dynamic Nationalisms: Against Socimentioning

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Banal Nationalism in the Internet Age: Rethinking the Relationship Between Nations, Nationalisms and the Media

Szulc

2017

Everyday Nationhood

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Rethinking the Relationship Between Nations, Nationalisms and the Media Classic authors in nations and nationalisms studies recognize traditional media as crucial for the construction of nations and spread of nationalisms. Anderson (1983), for example, insists on the importance of press capitalism, particularly the simultaneity of reading national newspapers, for the creation of a national consciousness. Gellner (1983, p. 127), in turn, focuses on media technologies and points out that 'it is the media themselves, the pervasiveness and importance of abstract, centralised one to many communication, which itself automatically engenders the core idea of nationalism quite irrespective of what in particular is being put into the specific messages transmitted'. He clarifies that those who can understand the language and style of the message transmitted are included in a particular (national) community and are distinguished from those who cannot understand the message. Conversely, Hobsbawm (1990, p. 142) argues that the content of media messages does matter and explains that the media manage to break down the division between the public and the private, or the national and the local, by making 'what were in effect national symbols part of the life of every individual'. The latter argument is also echoed in Billig's (1995) concept of banal nationalism, which refers to subtle, unconscious and unnoticed reproductions of both individual nations and the world as a world of nations. Even though Billig does not devote much space in his book to scrutinize the relationship between nations, nationalisms and the media, he does implicitly recognize the key role of the media in reproducing banal nationalism. The core part of his analysis is based on a one-day survey of 10 British newspapers, both tabloids and broadsheets, sampled on one not particularly eventful day of 28 June 1993 (Billig 1995, pp. 109-111). In the analysis, he shows how the newspapers unwittingly reproduce the world as a world of nations, for example in the categorization of news items into 'Home' and 'Foreign', as well as casually adopt national references, for example in the use of country maps and deictic words such as 'we', 'here' and 'the' (as in 'the nation'). Additionally, Billig more explicitly acknowledges the role of the press, and traditional media in general, as one

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Section: Heterogeneous Nations and Dynamic Nationalisms: Against Socimentioning

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Banal Nationalism in the Internet Age: Rethinking the Relationship Between Nations, Nationalisms and the Media

Szulc

2017

Everyday Nationhood

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“…Nowhere is this more successfully dramatized, and nowhere is it dramatized in front of so many spectators at once, than in international sporting competition (Billig 1995, 86) -or in cultural events based on the same world-of-nations logic, such as the World's Fair or, in Europe since the mid-1950s, the Eurovision Song Contest (Urry 2002;Fricker and Gluhovic 2013). As theorists of nationalism have continued to probe how the media are implicated in reproducing the world of nations, especially in their coverage of sports (Mihelj 2013;Sked 2014), those theorists have produced a wealth of empirical studies that illustrate how struggles to define the nation and its boundaries continue to unfold through sports (e.g. Bellamy 2003;Hughson and Skillen 2014).…”

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Football, history, and the nation in Southeastern Europe

Baker

2016

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In October 2014, Serbia's European Championships qualifying match against Albania was abandoned after a drone flew onto the pitch in Belgrade with a banner showing Kosovo as part of a Greater Albania, provoking a fight between both teams and their fans. While the flight of the drone was a technologically novel reminder that the nation's territorial space is not two-dimensional but three-dimensional, the subject of a politics of verticality and volume (Weizman 2012,12; Elden 2013), the imagery of its invasive entry and violent ejection from the symbolic territory, and the battlefield of the nation underlined a point that could have been made at any point since the institutionalization of international sporting competition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: that controversies over sports, between and within nations, reveal the deeper conflicts about territorial and cultural boundaries that are the very process of constructing national identity. Yet all this has taken place within a framework of supposed internationalism and sporting fraternity; indeed, it is the very structure of organized, scheduled competition between nations that makes these sporting encounters regular and possible.

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“…En los mapas del tiempo se suele fijar solamente en el tiempo dentro de las fronteras nacionales y, de la misma forma, las estadísticas generalmente presentan resultados nacionales. También nos identificamos con "nuestro" ejército, "nuestros" deportistas, y "nuestros" cantantes y todo tipo de objetos y prácticas se identifican con ciertas naciones, lo que ayuda a que damos por sentado que el mundo esté dividido en naciones (Skey 2014). La nación, por lo tanto, no solamente está presente en momentos de exaltación patriótica, sino que forma parte de la vida cotidiana de múltiples formas.…”

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La nacionalización del hogar en España

Storm

2017

Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies

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The nationalization of the domestic sphere in Spain is a topic that has been largely ignored. Recently, the interest in the study of banal nationalism and the impact of nationalism on everyday life has been on the rise, particularly for the Francoist and democratic era; however, its origins are not clear at all. An examination of developments in domestic architecture, interior decoration, and even gardening shows that the domestic sphere was nationalized during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Regionalist architecture was in vogue for villas and country-houses and furniture was increasingly modeled after local artisanal traditions. Domestic practices such as cooking, consuming, and cleaning were also increasingly connected with supposedly "national" traditions. During this period Spanish cuisine and many of its regional dishes were "invented". The first phase of the nationalization of the domestic sphere in Spain is analyzed using a wide array of primary sources (press, manuals, speeches, etc.), thus contributing to the history of nationalism, gender studies, the history of architecture, and food studies, which by focusing on modernization processes largely disregarded this profound nationalization of the private sphere. RESUMENLa nacionalización del hogar en España es un tema todavía sin estudiar. Recientemente ha aumentado el interés por el estudio del nacionalismo banal y el impacto del nacionalismo en la vida cotidiana, sobre todo durante el franquismo y la democracia. Sin embargo, sus origines no están nada claras. Analizando la arquitectura doméstica, la decoración interior, e incluso la jardinería se pone de manifiesto que el espacio doméstico se nacionalizó durante las tres primeras décadas del siglo XX. La arquitectura regionalista se puso de moda para las villas y casas de campo y los muebles se inspiraron cada vez más en la artesanía tradicional. Lo mismo ocurrió con prácticas domésticas como la cocina, el consumo, y la limpieza. De este modo se "inventaron" la cocina española y los platos regionales. A partir de fuentes heterogéneas como la prensa, manuales, y discursos, esbozamos la nacionalización del hogar en España en su fase inicial, contribuyendo de esta manera a la historia del nacionalismo, los estudios de género, la historia de la arquitectura, y los estudios de la alimentación, que por centrarse tanto en los procesos de modernización ignoraron casi por completo esta nacionalización de la esfera privada.

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The Mediation of Nationhood: Communicating the World as a World of Nations

Cited by 27 publications

References 63 publications

Banal Nationalism in the Internet Age: Rethinking the Relationship Between Nations, Nationalisms and the Media

Banal Nationalism in the Internet Age: Rethinking the Relationship Between Nations, Nationalisms and the Media

Football, history, and the nation in Southeastern Europe

La nacionalización del hogar en España

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