| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 123 pages) : illustrations |
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Policy Press Shorts Research |
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Policy Press shorts. Research.
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| Contents |
Intro -- REIMAGININGTHE NATION -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Brexit nation -- Homogenous nation -- Postcolonial nation -- Chauvinist nation -- Emotional nation -- Conclusion -- 2. Home and belonging -- Othering -- Nostalgia -- Home -- Conclusion -- 3. 'The Europe we want' -- What is 'the Europe we want'? -- What is 'my Europe' and what does it stand for? -- Who are 'we'? -- Conclusion -- 4. The political space of the sea -- The imagined nation -- The sea -- South-East Asian water worlds -- Conclusion -- 5. Representation beyond the nation -- Museum narratives -- Maritime narration -- Imprint and Impact -- Conclusion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
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, po |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-120) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nation-building.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Nation-building
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1447328477 |
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9781447328476 |
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9781447336631 |
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9781447336648 |
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1447336631 |
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144733664X |
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