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Placing the nation : Aberystwyth and the reproduction of Welsh nationalism / by Rhys Jones, Carwyn Fowler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Rhys, 1971-
- Series:
- Politics and society in Wales
- Politics and society in Wales series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism--Wales--Aberystwyth--History.
- Nationalism.
- History.
- Aberystwyth (Wales)--Politics and government--History.
- Aberystwyth (Wales).
- Wales--Politics and government.
- Wales.
- Politics and government.
- Wales--Aberystwyth.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 237 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- Placing the Nation examines the importance of place in shaping nationalism. Rather than viewing nationalism as something that exists purely at a national scale, it argues for the need to explore how various people - embedded within particular places and operating across different scales - contribute to its reproduction.
- Placing the Nation explores these themes through a case study of the contribution made by people in Aberystwyth to the reproduction of Welsh nationalism since the 1960s. The varied and detailed empirical themes explored in this book show how nationalist discourses and practices are generated within places and communicated through scalar connections to the broader membership of the nation. Placing the Nation, thus, seeks to re-energize both geographical and social constructivist understandings of nationalism.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: place, scale and nationalism 1
- 2 Nations, place and scale: a theoretical context 13
- 3 Timing and spacing Welsh nationalism 43
- 4 Aberystwyth and a linguistic nation-making project 73
- 5 Educating a Welsh nation 101
- 6 Aberystwyth, Ceredigion and the electoral politics of Plaid Cymru 135
- 7 Nationalism, community and territory: where is Wales? 165
- 8 Conclusions: relocating nationalism 199.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780708321379
- 0708321372
- OCLC:
- 229432468
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