National Days - Constructing and Mobilising National Identity (Hardcover)

"Like national identity, national days involve a process of 'othering', saying who you are, as much as who you are not. If some countries (such as Scotland and Ireland) celebrate them far more strongly than their neighbour, England, why is that? Why is there no British day? Why should near-neighbours, Sweden, Norway and Finland, have such different traditions of national remembering? What if a national day and its associations are so tied into a previous political regime that they have become an embarrassment? Germany, Italy and South Africa have undergone radical political changes in the last 60 years, and with these, complex processes of forgetting and remembering. If national days have considerable political significance, whether positive or negative, they are also of major economic worth. Just as 'heritage' is not simply a matter of history, but of markets, so 'national days' have the potential to be major icons of national tourism. "--Book cover.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	D. McCrone • G. McPherson
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-23661-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Nationalism Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Constitution, government & the state Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-230-23661-8
Barcode:	9780230236615

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