For friends and citizens only? Banal notions of nationhood in official and semi-public discourses on foreign national flags in post-1990 Lithuania

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ID11263333
AuthorsEglė Kesylytė‐allix (0000-0002-2952-3775, International Business School at Vilnius University, corresponding author), Eglė Kesylytė-Alliks (Vilnius University)
Year2023
Volume54
Issue2
Pages155-174
Publication date2023-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Baltic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-9778 • E-ISSN: 1751-7877
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01629778.2022.2032779
OpenAlexW4210613097
LanguageEN
References cited27

This article explores tacit, habitual notions of nationhood within political and popular discourses that underlie the ways that ethnic minorities in Lithuania perceive themselves. This is achieved by examining official and semi-public discourses surrounding the use and status of foreign national flags in Lithuania. The main findings of the article are twofold. First, doxastic perceptions of national identity that emerged in the official discourses during the 1990s rather than those since the beginning of 2000s appeared to be present within semi-public discourses in 2015. Second, official discourses appear either less aware of, or avoid, issues of ethnic tension in Lithuania – questions that, on the contrary, were very important to focus group discussants

Aesthetics · Ethnic group · FLAGS register · Identity (music · National identity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Cultural and National Identity · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Philippine History and Culture

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