[In] largely dismissing national events as ‘conventional carnivals
of surplus emotion’ (1995: 45), Billig overlooks the important,
and somewhat under-theorised, link between banal and, what I have
previously labelled as, ecstatic forms of nationalism (Skey, 2006). In
this chapter, I want to focus on this relationship as a means of examining
the significance of, and response to, the upsurge in national, mass
flag waving events in England over the past decade.
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National Days Constructing and Mobilising National Identity
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41 - 56
Citation
SKEY, M., 2009. 'We wanna show 'em who we are': national events in England. IN: McCrone, D. and McPherson, G. (eds.), 2009. National days constructing and mobilising national identity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.41-56.
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