VOLUMINOUS STATES is an edited collection using, and expanding on, the volumetric approach to conceptualize the extension of sovereignty. In building a new framework attendant to those dimensions of sovereignty that are made invisible on a traditional two-dimensional map, the co…
In this groundbreaking book, Yuval-Davis provides a cutting-edge investigation of the challenging debates around belonging and the politics of belonging. Alongside the hegemonic forms of citizenship and nationalism which have tended to dominate our recent political and social hi…
The French Revolution had a marked impact on the ways in which citizens saw the newly-liberated spaces in which they now lived. Painting, gardening, cinematic displays of landscape, travel guides, public festivals, tales of space flight and devil-abduction each shaped citizens' …
British subjects: an anthropology of Britain
Examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like. This work is a multilingual survey of the construction of language in and…
The Japanese have long regarded themselves as a homogenous nation, clearly separate from other nations. However, this long-standing view is being undermined by the present international reality of increased global population movement. This has resulted in the establishment both …
The four Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway, have all held referenda on their relationship to the European Union in the 1990's. These referenda catalyzed heated debates: should Finland and Sweden give up neutrality? Should Denmark follow the European Union's m…
The concepts of 'nationality' and 'national identity' continue to receive a great deal of attention, with sport as one of the most telling areas for its expression. Concentrating on the period since 1945, Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World makes an important contr…
This work traces the development of Russian national consciousness from the time of the reforms of Peter the Great in the early-18th century, when ideas of nation and nationalism first penetrated Russia, up until Russia's current post-imperial identity crisis. It looks at nation…
This book engages with ideas that are highly topical and relevant: nationalism, nationhood and national identity as well as the relationship of these to postcolonialism. However, it does so within the broad field of drama. Examining the debates around the relationship between cu…
Providing an analysis of ethnographic material, this book shows the politics of identity, the geographies of memory and the power of narratives of some members of ethnic minority groups who fought during the Vietnam War in the Lao People's Liberation Army and/or were educated wi…