Banal Nationalism

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Title Page Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Nationalism and Established Nations Identity and Ideology Outline of the Book Nations and Languages Studying Nationalism as an Ideology Nationalism and the Nation-State The International World of Nations Making States and Peoples Nationhood and the Development of Language Languages and Boundaries Remembering Banal Nationalism Waved and Unwaved Flags Hot and Banal Nationalism The Return of the Repressed Forgetting the Saluted Flag Nationalism and Sociological Common Sense Our Patriotism - Their Nationalism National Identity in the World of Nations Theory and Nation Identity and Categories Imagining ‘Us’ as the National Community Imagining the National Homeland Stereotyping ‘Them’ Imagining a Nation among Nations Syntax of Hegemony Flagging the Homeland Daily Plebiscites, States and Nationalism Playing the Patriotic Card Beyond the Patriotic Card Homeland Deixis The Day Survey Flagging the Daily News Newspapers and the Deictics of Homeland-Making Masculine Arms Waving the Flags of Sport Sport, War and Masculinity Concluding Confession Postmodernity and Identity The Thesis of Postmodernism and the Global Culture The Declining, Fragmenting Nation-State Depthless and Depth Psychology The State in Global Times Around the Country Identities and Politics Globalization and the United States Philosophy as a Flag for the Pax Americana Sage for a Faithless Age A Call For Patriotism A Complex Nationalism Starting From Where We Are Defending Ethnocentrism ‘We’ and the Syntax of Hegemony Return of the Repressed Nationhood The Philosophy of the Pax Americana The Text as Flag Concluding Remarks References Name Index Subject Index