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Intro; Series Editor's Preface; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Identity and Solidarity; Theoretical Points of Departure; Book Outline and Methodology; References; Part I The Theoretical Framework; Chapter 2 Friendship and Solidarity: The Road Not Taken in the Study of National Attachment; Studies Going Beyond Identity Have Not Gone Far Enough; Why Study Solidarity?; National Solidarity as an Abstract Tie Between Strangers; Bringing Friendship Back In; References; Chapter 3 Social Club Sociability; The Quest for Community in Intermediate Institutions
Why Social Clubs?Historical Examples of Social Club Sociability; Online Social Clubs; References; Chapter 4 Public and Collective Intimacy; Intimacy Beyond the Private Sphere; Introducing Public Intimacy; Sociability as Social Performance; Collective Intimacy in Public Events: Bringing Sociability Back In; References; Chapter 5 The Meta-Narrative of Strangers-Turned-Friends; The Friendship and Family Tropes in National Solidarity Discourse; Friendship as an Imagined Social Construct; The Cultural Codes of Strangers-Turned-Friends; References
Chapter 6 Can We Really Distinguish Between Civic and National Solidarity?Phenomenological Considerations; Empirical Considerations; The Debate Over Civic Nationalism; The Critic of Methodological Nationalism; Normative Considerations; References; Part II The Case Studies; Chapter 7 Sacred Brotherhood: Freemasonry and Civic-National Sociability; Institutionalizing Fraternity: The Order of Freemasons; The Case of Israeli Freemasonry; Personal Ties: Strangers Turned into Virtuous Friends; Public Intimacy: Secrecy and Masonic-Coded Communication
Collective Intimacy: Staging and Collapsing the Personal and the CollectiveA Playground for Forging Civic-National Attachment; The Nation as a Club of Chosen Friends; References; Chapter 8 Big Brother: Viewers Turned Accomplices on Reality TV; Global Format, National Meaning; Televised Media Event as a Social Club; Big Brother as a Media Event; Interactions Between Strangers Under the Gaze of Other Strangers; The Confession Room; Participants Who Were Formerly Viewers; Family Members as Symbolically Present; Social Interactions at Home and at Work; Interactions on Social Media
A Nation of AccomplicesReferences; Chapter 9 Absent Brother: Military Friendship and Commemoration; The Institutionalization of Military Friendships; The Public Staging of Personal Bonds Between Soldiers; From Public to Collective Intimacy: Expanding Circles of Solidarity with Missing Soldiers; The Living and the Dead: Between Simultaneous and Mythic Time; A Meta-Narrative of Strangers-Turned-Friends-Turned-Brothers; References; Part III Concluding Thoughts; Chapter 10 Toward a Research Program for Studying National Solidarity; The Nation and the Promise of Friendship
Why Social Clubs?Historical Examples of Social Club Sociability; Online Social Clubs; References; Chapter 4 Public and Collective Intimacy; Intimacy Beyond the Private Sphere; Introducing Public Intimacy; Sociability as Social Performance; Collective Intimacy in Public Events: Bringing Sociability Back In; References; Chapter 5 The Meta-Narrative of Strangers-Turned-Friends; The Friendship and Family Tropes in National Solidarity Discourse; Friendship as an Imagined Social Construct; The Cultural Codes of Strangers-Turned-Friends; References
Chapter 6 Can We Really Distinguish Between Civic and National Solidarity?Phenomenological Considerations; Empirical Considerations; The Debate Over Civic Nationalism; The Critic of Methodological Nationalism; Normative Considerations; References; Part II The Case Studies; Chapter 7 Sacred Brotherhood: Freemasonry and Civic-National Sociability; Institutionalizing Fraternity: The Order of Freemasons; The Case of Israeli Freemasonry; Personal Ties: Strangers Turned into Virtuous Friends; Public Intimacy: Secrecy and Masonic-Coded Communication
Collective Intimacy: Staging and Collapsing the Personal and the CollectiveA Playground for Forging Civic-National Attachment; The Nation as a Club of Chosen Friends; References; Chapter 8 Big Brother: Viewers Turned Accomplices on Reality TV; Global Format, National Meaning; Televised Media Event as a Social Club; Big Brother as a Media Event; Interactions Between Strangers Under the Gaze of Other Strangers; The Confession Room; Participants Who Were Formerly Viewers; Family Members as Symbolically Present; Social Interactions at Home and at Work; Interactions on Social Media
A Nation of AccomplicesReferences; Chapter 9 Absent Brother: Military Friendship and Commemoration; The Institutionalization of Military Friendships; The Public Staging of Personal Bonds Between Soldiers; From Public to Collective Intimacy: Expanding Circles of Solidarity with Missing Soldiers; The Living and the Dead: Between Simultaneous and Mythic Time; A Meta-Narrative of Strangers-Turned-Friends-Turned-Brothers; References; Part III Concluding Thoughts; Chapter 10 Toward a Research Program for Studying National Solidarity; The Nation and the Promise of Friendship