Reimagining the Nation: Togetherness, Belonging and Mobility

Sutherland, Claire (2017) Reimagining the Nation: Togetherness, Belonging and Mobility. Policy Press. ISBN 978-1447326281

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Abstract

This book develops new ways of thinking beyond the nation as a form of political community by seeking to transcend ethnonational categories of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Drawing on scholarship and cases spanning Pacific Asia and Europe, it steps outside assumptions linking nation to state.

Accessible yet theoretically rich, it explores how to think about nationhood beyond narrow binaries and even broader cosmopolitan ideals. Using cutting-edge critical research, it fundamentally challenges the positive connotations of British patriotism and UK politics’ increasingly shrill anti-immigrant discourse, pointing to how these continue to reproduce vocabularies of belonging that are dependent on ethnonational and racialised categorisations.

With a cross-continental focus, this book offers alternative ways of thinking about togetherness and belonging that are premised on mobility rather than rootedness, thereby providing a constructive agenda for critical nationalism studies.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	L200 Politics L700 Human and Social Geography
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	21 Mar 2019 10:27
Last Modified:	21 Mar 2019 10:27
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/38468

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