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Abstract
In this paper we demonstrate how writings on affect, materiality and relationality necessitate a rethinking of theories of the nation, focusing on the intermittent emergence and flickering presence of nation-ness and national identity. In moving beyond Billig’s notion of ‘banal nationalism’, we argue that the presencing/absencing, foregrounding/backgrounding, and individualizing/collectivizing of feelings results from the differential capacities for bodies to affect or be affected and the assembling of particular configurations of bodies and materials. We demonstrate this through a discussion of how national feelings and affects have gathered around two infrastructures in Wales, the A470 road and the Severn Bridge.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 600-617 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Progress in Human Geography |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 5 |
Early online date | 18 May 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 01 Oct 2017 |
Keywords
- affect
- banal nationalism
- fire spatiality
- infrastructure
- materiality
- mobilities
- nationalism
- Wales
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Peter Merriman
- Department of Geography and Earth Sciences - Professor in Human Geography
Person: Teaching And Research
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Networking communities: mobility, nationlism and the historical geographies of connective infrastructures
Merriman, P. (PI)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
01 Feb 2012 → 31 Oct 2012
Project: Externally funded research