National Identity Popular Culture and Everyday Life 1st Edition by Tim Edensor 1859735193 9781859735190

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ISBN 10: 1859735193 

ISBN 13: 9781859735190

Author: Tim Edensor

The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization upon national identity and culture?This book examines how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular culture and in everyday life. National identity is revealed to be inherent in the things we often take for granted – from landscapes and eating habits, to tourism, cinema and music. Our specific experience of car ownership and motoring can enhance a sense of belonging, whilst Hollywood blockbusters and national exhibitions provide contexts for the ongoing, and often contested, process of national identity formation. These and a wealth of other cultural forms and practices are explored, with examples drawn from Scotland, the UK as a whole, India and Mauritius. This book addresses the considerable neglect of popular cultures in recent studies of nationalism and contributes to debates on the relationship between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture.

Table of contents:

1. Popular Culture, Everyday Life and the Matrix of National Identity
Theories of nationalism: reductive cultural perspectives
Popular culture and national identity
Everyday life and national identity
Conceptualising identity
The redistribution of national identity

2. Geography and Landscape: National Places and Spaces
The nation as bounded space
Ideological rural national landscapes
Iconic sites
Sites of popular culture and assembly
Familiar, quotidian landscapes
Dwellingscapes
Homely space
Conclusion

3. Performing National Identity
Formal rituals and invented ceremonies
Popular rituals: sport and carnival
Staging the nation
Everyday performances: popular competencies, embodied habits and synchronised enactions
Conclusion

4. Material Culture and National Identity
Social relations and object worlds
Commodities and national identity
Material culture and semiotics
Things in place and out of place
The biographies of objects
Automobiles and national car cultures
Conclusion

5. Representing the Nation: Scottishness and Braveheart
Introducing Braveheart
Scotland in film
Battles over Braveheart
Recycling images: the tourist industry, heritage and film in Scotland
Geographies of William Wallace
Other representations of Wallace
Performances and rituals: re-presenting Wallace
The reception of Braveheart outside Scotland
Conclusion

6. Exhibiting National Identity at the Turn of the Millennium
‘Self-Portrait’ at the Millennium Dome
The ‘Andscape’
Interpretation of the ‘Andscape’
Bibliography
Index

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