Re-enchanting nationalisms [electronic resource] : rituals and remembrances in a postmodern age / Brad West.

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Re-enchanting nationalisms [electronic resource] : rituals and remembrances in a postmodern age / Brad West.

9781493925131 electronic book
149392513X electronic book
9781493925124

Cham : Springer, 2015.

English

1 online resource (xxii, 152 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-1-4939-2513-1 doi

HM621

306

This book provides original insight into the way we now engage and remember national history. Drawing on fieldwork and analysis of international case studies on state commemoration, memorialization, recreational and tourism and times of disaster and crisis, the author demonstrates that not only does the nation frequently retain a strong cultural relevance in our global world but that the emergence of new forms of ritual and remembrance means that in many instances we are seeing the re-enchantment of nationalism. Drawing upon and developing an empirically informed cultural sociology, the author charts the distinctive qualities of these new national rites and how they feed into and advance particular cosmopolitan and orthodox national politics. Because social science has so often wrongly assumed the end of nationalism, the insights of this of the book about the possibilities and limitations of contemporary nationalism demand serious consideration by academics and also by policy makers and the general public.

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