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The edges of the nation

A Research Agenda for Uncovering the Taken‐for‐granted Foundations of Everyday Nationhood

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ID7930685
AuthorsJon E Fox (0000-0003-2428-3482, School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies University of Bristol Bristol UK, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume23
Issue1
Pages26-47
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNations and Nationalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/nana.12269
OpenAlexW2525013231
LanguageEN
Citations received106
References cited87

In many parts of the world, nationalism has gone underground. It's there, just beneath the surface, underpinning the social order without requiring, or even permitting, much tinkering. This is the realm of the unselfconscious: nationhood not as an object of purposeful manipulation, but as an unspoken set of assumptions about the national order of things. But if the nation is unseen, unheard, unnoticed, how do we know this? Indeed, how can we know this? In this paper, I elaborate a breaching approach for uncovering the ways the nation is taken for granted. I look to the edges of the nation: the places, times and situations where the nation is on the periphery – the edges – of consciousness, lurking just beneath the surface where it might be teased out with a carefully concocted breach. My aim is to explore and exploit these edges to turn unselfconscious suppositions about the nation into explicit articulations of the nation

Aesthetics · Consciousness · Epistemology · Exploit · Nationalism · Object (grammar · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sociology · Underpinning · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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