Re-scripting the nation in ‘post truth’ era

The Indian story

Bibliographic Data

ID6039634
AuthorsMaya Ranganathan (0000-0002-0522-5941, Macquarie University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume23
Issue1
Pages1-15
Publication date2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Ethnicity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1463-1369 • E-ISSN: 1469-2953
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14631369.2019.1698942
OpenAlexW2992743687
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited31

This paper evaluates the ways in which new national narratives are sought to be constructed in ‘post-truth’ era – marked by what Harsin terms competing convictions, discord and confusion and attempts to manage the communication environment. New technologies and online spaces facilitate the ‘re-creation’ and ‘re-construction’ of the past and are co-opted in the nation building project. In the context of extensive studies on how the democratic potential of new technologies is subverted, this paper calls for specific attention to the ways in which (imprecise) history forms part of discursive nationalism in present times. Taking up India as a case study, the paper explores and evaluates the strategies employed in the rescripting of the national narrative potentially leading to new national memory

Confusion · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Linguistics · Media studies · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scripting language · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · History · Law · Psychology · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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