Everyday Nationhood

1. Introduction: The Persistence of Banal Nationalism; Marco Antonsich & Michael Skey.- Part I: Critical reflections on the Banal Nationalism Thesis.- 2. The rhetoric of nationalism; Craig Calhoun.- 3. The Universality of Banal Nationalism, or can the flag hand unobtrusively outside a Serbian post office?; Ivana Spasic.- 4. Banal Nationalism in the Internet Age: Rethinking the Relationship between Nations, Nationalisms and the Media; Lukasz Szulc.- Part II - Everyday practices and attitudes; 5. The name and the nation: Banal nationalism and name change practices in the context of co-ethnic migration to Germany; Gesine Wallem.- 6. Collective charisma, selective exclusion and national belonging: 'false' and 'real' Greeks from the former Soviet Union; Manolis Pratsinakis.- 7. Humming Along: Public and Private Patriotism in Putin's Russia; J. Paul Goode.- 8. Repertoires of Nationhood in France and Germany; Bart Bonikowski.- Part III- Affect.- 9. On affect, dancing and nationa
l bodies; Elisabeth Militz.- 10. Making sense of everyday nationhood: traces in the experiential world; Shanti Sumartojo.- 11. Doing affect around national days: Mundane/banal practice or the call of 'another space'?; McCreanor, Tim., Muriwai, Emerald., Wetherell, Margaret., Moewaka Barnes, Helen., &  Moewaka Barnes, Angela.- Part IV - The trans-national and the global.- 12. Narratives of Legitimacy: Making Nationalism Banal; Melissa Aronczyk.- 13. Banal nationalism and UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list: Cases of washoku and the gastronomic meal of the French; Atsuko Ichijo.- 14. Banal Nationalism and Consumer Activism: The Case of #BoycottGermany; Eleftheria J. Lekakis.- 15. Banal nationalism and the imagining of politics; Michael Billig.- 16. Conclusion: The Present and Future of Nationalism; Michael Skey & Marco Antonsich.

Michael Skey is Lecturer in Communication and Media at Loughborough University, UK.

Marco Antonsich is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University, UK.