) attempt to explain the means used by the nation-state to create national identity, he maintains that the flag, newspaper, sites, and landscapes initiate ‘banal nationalism’. According to Billig, the performance of banal nationalism can be detected in
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David Leishman
from Raymond Briggs's picture book (1978) into a recurrent Christmas-themed, animated TV ad. Building on the work of theorists such as Michael Billig, Douglas B. Holt and Tim Edensor, 10 who have studied the importance of banal nationalism and the role
“We Are a Traveling People”
Tourism, Travel Journalism, and the Construction of a Modern National Identity in Sweden
Emilia Ljungberg
only encounter the other through the self. In other words, it is inevitable that they compare and make sense of the foreign through their own cultural background. It is possible to refer to Michael Billig’s concept of banal nationalism, since travel
Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, and Katja Mäkinen
Commission, “Memorandum on the Accession of the European Communities to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, COM(79) 210 final, 2 May 1979, Brussels. 50 See also Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism (London: Sage, 1995
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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Touring the Regions
(Dis) Uniting the Kingdom on Holiday
Hazel Andrews
cafés in such a way that they could easily be found on a high street in the UK. All of these form part of what Michael Billig (1995) referred to as banal nationalism, those everyday, seemingly ordinary things that are engaged with in a nonreflexive way
Marco Solimene, Mariann Vaczi, Paul Manning, Bozena Sojka, Stephen Quilley, Anna Zhelnina, and Aimar Ventsel
performance. Chapter 7 discusses sport and nationalism through the popular perspectives of ‘imagined communities’, ‘invented traditions’ and ‘banal nationalism’. Chapter 8 situates sport in an international and globalised context, with special attention to the
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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Everyday Diplomacy
Introduction to Special Issue
Magnus Marsden, Diana Ibañez-Tirado, and David Henig
. Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . 10.9783/9780812291148 Billig , M. 1995 . Banal Nationalism . London : Sage . Bornstein , E. 2012 . Disquieting Gifts: Humanitarianism
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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Five Thousand, 5,000, and Five Thousands
Disentangling Ruble Quantities and Qualities
Sandy Ross
. http://quote.rbc.ru/cash/ . Penrose , Jan . 2011 . “ Designing the Nation: Banknotes, Banal Nationalism and Alternative Conceptions of the State .” Political Geography 30 ( 8 ): 429 – 440 . 10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.09.007 Preda , Alex . 2007
