This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in National Identities. Alan Bairner (2023) Guest editorial, National Identities, 25:4, 299-304, DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2023.2236556. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.