Narratives of Legitimacy

Making Nationalism Banal

Bibliographic Data

ID23651908
AuthorsMelissa Aronczyk (0000-0002-9619-6188, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages241-258
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueEveryday Nationhood (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-57098-7_12
OpenAlexW2769250524
ISBN9781137570987
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited28

The chapter examines a set of strategic narratives by which national interests and values are successfully maintained among various populations. Such narratives are “banal” in the sense that they are deliberately not labeled nationalist. They derive their power by obscuring the ways national interests and values are reproduced in various political and cultural activities: in transnational or so-called global initiatives; in technical infrastructures; in cross-cutting forms of allegiance. Drawing on Monroe Price’s concept of “narratives of legitimacy,” the chapter examines the ways that nationalism is reinforced in our time, illustrating how it works to justify certain discourses and practices and marginalize others.

Aesthetics · Allegiance · Art · Legitimacy · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Political Conflict and Governance

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