Longing for a national container. On the symbolic economy of Europe's new nationalism

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ID12657293
AuthorsK Kraemer (0000-0002-2592-6104, Medical University of Graz, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume22
Issue5
Pages529-554
Publication date2019-11-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Societies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-6696 • E-ISSN: 1469-8307
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14616696.2019.1694164
OpenAlexW2990459431
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited68

This paper discusses how to explain the rise of a new nationalism in Europe. It begins by problematizing the inconsistencies in the current culturalist, socio-economic, and socio-political approaches. It then makes Pierre Bourdieu's theory of social space fruitful for a sociological explanation of neonationalism by removing it from the conceptional framework of national container societies. It finally shows that the transnational opening of national societies is accompanied by profound processes of symbolic appreciation and depreciation of economic, cultural, and social ‘capital’ that the inhabitants of the national container possess

Capital (architecture · Container (type theory · Cultural capital · Depreciation (economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Financial capital · Human capital · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Symbolic capital · The Symbolic · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · History · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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