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National Affects - The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political (Hardcover)
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National Affects - The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political (Hardcover)
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Identity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet
questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made
central to understanding the global politics of nationalism. This
book asks what difference it makes when we address national
identity as principally an affective force? National Affects traces
how ideas about 'us and them' take form in ordinary spaces, in ways
that are both deeply felt and hardly noticeable, in studies of
global events that range from the London 2012 Olympic Games to
responses to acts of terror, the European refugee crisis and
'Brexit'. In this timely intervention, Angharad Closs Stephens
addresses the affective dimensions of being together to open new
angles in the study of nationalism and global politics. She asks
how the nation is felt in everyday life, as well as differently
experienced, and investigates different forms of enacting being
together to generate new insights in the study of national
identity. National Affects draws on academic theories in the study
of Politics, International Relations and Human Geography, as well
as stories, performance works and novels, to establish a new tone
of critical enquiry. Informed by longstanding critical
interrogations of the politics of 'us and them', this book argues
that these ideas are not as stable as they are often made to seem.
Drawing on a combination of artistic and academic interventions,
this book offers a refreshing approach to conceptualising the
politics of nationalism, identity and citizenship. In its focus on
everyday atmospheres, it identifies new registers for intervening
politically. Overall, National Affects outlines other ways of
imagining and practising being political together, beyond the
exclusionary politics of nationalism.
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