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National identities in the age of globalisation: the case of Western Europe
In an age of increasing globalisation and political fragmentation, does the nation have the relevance it once had? Is the re-scaling of political
and economic processes associated with a similar re-scaling of national identities? The aim of the present paper is to offer an answer to these two
questions on the basis of both quantitative and qualitative data recently collected for Western Europe. Cross-country trends for both national
pride and national attachment are analyzed through Eurobarometer Standard surveys. Furthermore, the notion of national attachment is discussed
in relation to qualitative data collected in four regional case-studies in Western Europe. On the basis of this analysis I argue that, when viewed
‘from below’, i.e. from the eyes of ordinary citizens, national identity continues to shape the predominant ways in which people make sense of themselves and others.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
National IdentitiesVolume
11Issue
3Pages
281 - 299Citation
ANTONSICH, M., 2009. National identities in the age of globalisation: the case of Western Europe. National Identities, 11 (3), pp.281-299.Publisher
Routledge (© Taylor & Francis)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2009Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in National Identities on 06/08/2009 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14608940903081085ISSN
1460-8944eISSN
1469-9907Publisher version
Language
- en