National Belonging and Everyday Life [electronic resource] : The Significance of Nationhood in an Uncertain World /
Skey, M.author.
This book analyses the current debates around national identity and multiculturalism by addressing three key questions; why do so many people treat as common sense the idea that they live in and belong to nations? And, why, and for whom, might this idea be significant, notably in an era of increasing global uncertainty?
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: What's going on?; 1 Theorising National Discourse; 2 'Football, Tea and Racism': Talking with and about the Nation; 3 'Aggressively Defensive': Managing Perceived Threats to the Nation; 4 'We Knew Who We Were': Ecstatic Nationalism and Social Solidarity; 5 'It Broadens Our Horizons': Are We All Cosmopolitan Now?; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes index.
This book analyses the current debates around national identity and multiculturalism by addressing three key questions; why do so many people treat as common sense the idea that they live in and belong to nations? And, why, and for whom, might this idea be significant, notably in an era of increasing global uncertainty?
Ethnicity.
Social policy.
Sociology.
Political sociology.
Emigration and immigration.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Ethnicity Studies.
Social Policy.
Sociology, general.
Political Sociology.
Migration.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.