Reimagining the nation : togetherness, belonging and mobility

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781447326281
ISBN: 144733664X
ISBN: 1447336631
ISBN: 1447326288
ISBN: 144733664X
ISBN: 1447336631
ISBN: 9781447336648
ISBN: 9781447336631
ISBN: 9781447328476
ISBN: 1447328477
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 123 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-120) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.