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'We wanna show 'em who we are': national events in England
[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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