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Provides a systematic approach to the growing field of commemoration studies
Examines new ritual engagements with national history and identity
Combines museum studies, tourism, and cultural preservation into a cohesive theory
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides original insight into the way we now engage and remember national history. Drawing on fieldwork and analysis of international case studies on state commemoration, memorialization, recreational and tourism and times of disaster and crisis, the author demonstrates that not only does the nation frequently retain a strong cultural relevance in our global world but that the emergence of new forms of ritual and remembrance means that in many instances we are seeing the re-enchantment of nationalism. Drawing upon and developing an empirically informed cultural sociology, the author charts the distinctive qualities of these new national rites and how they feed into and advance particular cosmopolitan and orthodox national politics. Because social science has so often wrongly assumed the end of nationalism, the insights of this of the book about the possibilities and limitations of contemporary nationalism demand serious consideration by academics and also by policy makers and the general public.
Keywords
- 2002 Bali Bombing Terrorist Act
- 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
- Civil Religion
- Cultural Differences
- Cultural Sociology
- Dialogical Crisis
- Gallipoli and Dialogical Remembrance
- International Civil Religious Pilgrimage
- International Tourism
- National Historical Narratives
- National History and Contemporary Leisure
- National Humanitarianism
- National Identities
- National Re-Enchantment
- Re-enacting the American Civil War
- Recreational Re-enactment
- War Battle Re-enacting
Authors and Affiliations
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Sociology, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Brad West
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Re-enchanting Nationalisms
Book Subtitle: Rituals and Remembrances in a Postmodern Age
Authors: Brad West
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2513-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2512-4Published: 14 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5046-1Published: 05 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2513-1Published: 13 April 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 152
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology, general, Social Sciences, general, History, general