National identity, popular culture and everyday life / Tim Edensor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edensor, Tim, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics.

Ethnopsychology.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

viii, 216 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2002.

Contents:

Popular culture, everyday life and the matrix of national identity. Theories of nationalism : reductive cultural perspectives. Popular culture and national identity. Everyday life and national identity. Conceptualising identity. The redistribution of national identity

Geography and landscape : national places and spaces. The nation as bounded space. Ideological rural national landscapes. Iconic sites. Sites of popular culture and assembly. Familiar, quotidian landscapes. Dwellingscapes. Homely space. Conclusion

Performing national identity. Formal rituals and invented ceremonies. Popular rituals : sport and carnival. Staging the nation. Everyday performances : popular competencies, embodied habits and synchronised enactions. Conclusion

Material culture and national identity. Social relations and object worlds. Commodities and national identity. Material culture and semiotics. Things in place and out of place. The biographies of objects. Automobiles and national car cultures. Conclusion

Representing the nation : scottishness and Braveheart. Introducing Braveheart. Scotland in film. Battles over Braveheart. Recycling images : the tourist industry, heritage and film in Scotland. Geographies of William Wallace. Other representations of Wallace. Performances and rituals : re-presenting Wallace. The reception of Braveheart outside Scotland. Conclusion

Exhibiting national identity at the turn of the millennium. 'Self-portrait' at the Millennium Dome. The 'andscape'. Interpretation of the 'andscape'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index.

ISBN:

1859735142

1859735193

OCLC:

48964906