The Clamour of Nationalism : Race and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Britain

Valluvan, Sivamohan

Manchester University Press（2020/10発売）

Manchester University Press（2020/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526126122
• DDC分類 320.540941

Full Description

Nationalism has reasserted itself today as the political force of our times, remaking European politics wherever one looks. Britain is no exception, and in the midst of Brexit, it has even become a vanguard of nationalism's confident return to the mainstream. Intellectual attempts to account for nationalism's resurgence have however floundered. Desperately trying to read nationalism through one overarching cause - as capitalist crisis, as cultural backlash, or as social media led anti-Establishment politics - these accounts have proven woefully inadequate. This book argues that the only way to understand nationalism is through nationalism itself. To understand it as the key force of modernity that calls upon all existing ideological traditions in asserting its appeal: whether it is liberal, conservative, neoliberal or left-wing. This ideological clamour that characterises today's British nationalism requires both recognition and theorisation. A meaningful understanding of new nationalism must reckon with the ideological range animating it and the deeply hostile aversion to different racial minorities that pervades its respective ideologies. Drawing on a variety of cultural and political themes - ranging from Corbyn's dithering, the cult of Churchillism, the neoliberal fixation with a 'point-system' immigration policy, the muscular secularism of Richard Dawkins and friends, fears that the white working class have 'become black', and even simply the strange appeal of Harry Potter and Game of Thrones - this book provides a dazzling but always detailed study of how nationalism is the politics of today only because it is a politics of everything.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: mapping the nation
1 Theorising the nation
2 Notes on two red herrings: progressive nationalism and populism
3 Valuing the nation: liberalism, Muslims and nation-state values
4 Conservatism and mourning the nation
5 Unholy alliances: the neoliberal embrace of nation
6 Left problems: the left and welfare state nationalism
Conclusion: absences and futures

Index