1st Edition

National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life

By Tim Edensor Copyright 2002
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization upon national identity and culture?This book examines how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular... Read more
Acknowledgements, Preface, 1. Popular Culture, Everyday Life and the Matrix of National Identity, 2. Geography and Landscape: National Places and Spaces, 3. Performing National Identity, 4. Material Culture and National Identity, 5. Representing the Nation: Scottishness and Braveheart, 6. Exhibiting National Identity at the Turn of the Millennium, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Tim Edensor Lecturer in Cultural Studies,Staffordshire University