Nationalism in Settled Times Bonikowski, Bart
Annual review of sociology,
07/2016, Letnik:
42, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Due to a preoccupation with periods of large-scale social change, nationalism research had long neglected everyday nationhood in contemporary democracies. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to ...shift the focus of this scholarly field toward the study of nationalism not only as a political project but also as a cognitive, affective, and discursive category deployed in daily practice. Integrating insights from work on banal and everyday nationalism, collective rituals, national identity, and commemorative struggles with survey-based findings from political psychology, I demonstrate that meanings attached to the nation vary within and across populations as well as over time, with important implications for microinteraction and for political beliefs and behavior, including support for exclusionary policies and authoritarian politics. I conclude by suggesting how new developments in methods of data collection and analysis can inform future research on this topic.
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration ...(Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and stricter hygiene) and endorsed public policy interventions (e.g., closing bars and restaurants) during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic (April-May 2020). Respondents who reported identifying more strongly with their nation consistently reported greater engagement in public health behaviours and support for public health policies. Results were similar for representative and non-representative national samples. Study 2 (N = 42 countries) conceptually replicated the central finding using aggregate indices of national identity (obtained using the World Values Survey) and a measure of actual behaviour change during the pandemic (obtained from Google mobility reports). Higher levels of national identification prior to the pandemic predicted lower mobility during the early stage of the pandemic (r = -0.40). We discuss the potential implications of links between national identity, leadership, and public health for managing COVID-19 and future pandemics.
National identity is a matter of vital importance in a country. Without an identity, a country is unrecognized in the eyes of the world. National identity is defined asa dynamic condition formed by ...various factors, such as ethnicity, culture, language, religion, ideology, and so on. The dynamics of national identity can be affected by the current globalization. Globalization is defined as the world's freedom to develop different aspects of life, such as technology, science, culture, and so on. This process is being propagated by technologies and information controlled by developed countries. Thus, Indonesia as a developing country has more influence than influence. Globalization influences both positive and negative. The positive effects of globalization can be harnessed in the development of nations. The negative effects of globalization, however, could remove the national identity of nations. Therefore, it takes effort to strengthen nation's identity by liberating the negative effects of globalization that can have a powerful impact on the social order, and education plays a key role in growing a superior personality for the next generation.
El auge electoral y político de VOX en España es de tal importancia que es imprescindible seguir profundizando en su ideología y pensamiento político. Con este objetivo, este artículo se propone ...estudiar el ideario político de esta formación sobre el islam en España, preguntándonos sobre la presencia de una posible islamofobia en tal discurso y, a su vez, sobre la orientación argumental de tal islamofobia. Para este propósito, se ha empleado una metodología de corte cualitativa basada en el análisis del discurso de diferentes fuentes audiovisuales y documentales relativos a esta formación política. El resultado de esta investigación permite aseverar que en VOX existe un discurso islamofobo en torno al islam y a la comunidad musulmana residente en España. VOX construye un ideario político donde el islam cumple la función del enemigo sociohistórico de la identidad nacional. En este contexto, tal discurso, además, está caracterizado por la presencia de una islamofobia iliberal, cuyos postulados emergen de un rechazo esencialista del islam, considerado una amenaza a la supervivencia cultural, identitaria y social de la identidad nacional española.
A long essay entitled Three Historical Regions of Europe, appearing first in a samizdat volume in Budapest in 1980, instantly put its author into the forefront of the transnational debate on Central ...Europe, alongside such intellectual luminaries as Milan Kundera and Czesław Miłosz. The present volume offers English-language readers a rich selection of the depth and breadth of the legacy of Jenő Szűcs (1928–1988). The selection documents Szűcs’s seminal contribution to many contemporary debates in historical anthropology, nationalism studies, and conceptual history. It contains his key texts on the history of national consciousness and patterns of collective identity, as well as medieval and early modern political thought. The works published here, most of them previously unavailable in English, provide a sophisticated analysis of a wide range of subjects from the myths of origins of Hungarians before Christianization to the political and religious ideology of the Dózsa peasant uprising in 1514, the medieval roots of civil society, or the revival of ethnic nationalism during the communist era. The volume, with an introduction by the editors locating Szűcs in a transnational context, offers a unique insight into the complex and sensitive debate on national identity in post-1945 East Central Europe.
This between-subject survey experiment, conducted in two waves using a German sample (N = 1166 in Wave 1, N = 829 in Wave 2), examined the hypothesis that identity-related frames – specifically, ...assimilation versus multicultural – affect outgroup prejudice and admission policy preferences by increasing the salience of different national identity representations (NIR). Participants were exposed to identical articles (except for the manipulations) framing information about Syrian refugees in Germany in either assimilation or multicultural terms. As predicted, exposure to assimilation versus multicultural frames led to higher ethnocultural NIR salience and, in turn, to higher outgroup prejudice and preference for more restrictive admission policies. Still, findings pointed to the defining role of frame content and valence perception in these effects, as perceiving the frame as more assimilationist and anti-immigration was related to higher ethnocultural NIR salience. Furthermore, frame perception explained a larger portion of variation in ethnocultural NIR salience than treatment alone. Additionally, ethnocultural NIR salience fostered intergroup threat perception leading to higher outgroup prejudice and preference for restrictive asylum policies. In contrast, civic NIR salience was unaffected by the experimental manipulation. We discuss the impact of identity-related frames on ethnocultural NIR salience and the role of exclusionary national identities on outgroup prejudice and preference for restrictive admission policies. We also highlight the benefits of using multicultural frames to frame information about refugees and asylum to foster positive intergroup perceptions.
•Frame perception played a key role in identity-related framing effects.•Perceiving frame as assimilationist or negative went with higher ethnocultural NIR.•Higher ethnocultural NIR was linked to more negative outgroup and policy attitudes.•Civic NIR salience was unaffected by frame exposure or frame perception.
Past work showed that in social interactions laughter may be perceived in both a positive and a negative way. In the present research, we use dispositions towards ridicule and being laughed at ...(PhoPhiKat-9), to check how laughing at members of different nationalities is associated with the way individuals feel about their national group. Across two Studies (N = 633 and N = 1504), we show that national narcissism (but not national identification) is positively and significantly related to national gelotophobia (the fear that others may be laughing at our nation) and national katagelasticism (the joy of laughing at other nations). Moreover, we also demonstrate that dispositions towards ridicule and being laughed at mediated the path between national narcissism and metadehumanization, a conviction that out-group members perceived fellow in-group members as less than fully human.
•We analyzed dispositions towards ridicule and laughter at our own and other nations.•National narcissism is linked to national gelotophobia.•National narcissism is related to national katagelasticism.•Results of the association between national narcissism and gelotophilia were mixed.•National PhoPhiKat-9 mediate between national narcissism and metadehumanization.
The current study aims to identify The role of parents in developing national identity and digital citizenship for kindergarten children from the point of view of parents. The descriptive approach ...was used, and the study was applied to (80) mothers of children enrolled in government kindergartens in the city of Najran. The study used the following tools: National identity scale (cultural identity - social identity - religious identity) for mothers of kindergarten children in the city of Najran Digital citizenship scale (protection axis - respect axis - education axis) for mothers of kindergarten children in Najran city. The study reached the following results: The role of the parents in developing the national identity of the kindergarten child was slightly above average and they were not regular in performing their role. The parents in developing the digital citizenship of the kindergarten child was slightly below average and they were irregular in performing their role. The role of the parents in developing the national identity Higher than their role in developing digital citizenship for kindergarten children. In light of the results of the study, the researchers presented several recommendations: Instructing parents to participate digitally with their children while dealing with the Internet. Educating parents to participate in digital parenting programs directed to them to help them manage their children’s use of the Internet and dealing with digital environments safely. Directing those in charge of early childhood programs to prepare programs to educate parents about the values of digital citizenship, and imposing censorship on electronic games provided to children that conflict with the values of the society.
La identidad nacional, a la que se alude en el artículo 4.2 TUE, ha sido interpretada de diversas maneras por parte del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea y de distintas jurisdicciones ...constitucionales de algunos Estados miembros. En este trabajo se examina la evolución de la regulación de la identidad constitucional en los tratados de la Unión y en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Luxemburgo y de algunos Tribunales constitucionales y se propone, a la vista del análisis realizado, algunas hipótesis sobre qué órganos deberían ser los encargados de invocar la identidad nacional, en qué supuestos y con qué efectos.
The Civilisational Identity of the Bulgarians: Traditional and Contemporary Dilemmas The article deals with the civilisational identity of the Bulgarian people, and the place of the Bulgarians on the ...civilisation map of Europe. The main problem here is the nature of their civilisational identity: they do not have precise geographical coordinates – they are the result of subjective human perception. In addition, the issue of civilisational identity is a matter of political propaganda. From their historical traditions, the Bulgarians inherited several macro cultural elements, (Proto-)Bulgarian, Slavic, Orthodox, Balkan and European. Considered separately, each of them can form the base required to construct a framework of contemporary Bulgarian identity and its cultural relationship with other nations in Europe. Some of these elements constitute strong spiritual foci around which their own cultural and civilisational circles are formed. On this basis, the Bulgarian nation enters into various spatial and cultural-historical configurations. Among them, there is a hierarchy, which in today’s open society primarily depends on the values and self-determination of each person. On the other hand, the interwoven cultural elements on the Bulgarian territory enable some researchers to talk about transitional identity structures – Bulgarian-Slavic, Slavic-Orthodox, Balkan-Slavic, Balkan-European and others. The author also investigates the geopolitical concept of the “civilisational choice”, which is supposed to determine the place of Bulgaria and the Bulgarians in Europe and in the world: is it in the West Euro-Atlantic sphere or in Eurasia?
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