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Mindless markers of the nation’: The routine flagging of nationhood across the visual environment
The visual environment has increasingly been used as a lens with which to understand wider processes of social and economic change with studies employing in-depth qualitative approaches to focus on, for example, gentrification or trans-national networks. This exploratory paper offers an alternative...
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| description | The visual environment has increasingly been used as a lens with which to understand wider processes of social and economic change with studies employing in-depth qualitative approaches to focus on, for example, gentrification or trans-national networks. This exploratory paper offers an alternative perspective by using a novel method, quantitative photo mapping, to examine the extent to which a particular socio-cultural marker, the nation, is ‘flagged’ across three contrasting sites in Britain. As a multi-national state with an increasingly diverse population, Britain offers a particularly fruitful case study, drawing in debates around devolution, European integration and Commonwealth migration. In contributing to wider debates around banal nationalism, the paper notes the extent to which nations are increasingly articulated through commerce, consumption and market exchange and the overall significance of everyday markers (signs, objects, infrastructure) in naturalising a national view of the world. |
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| spelling | rr-article-94756462015-08-10T00:00:00Z Mindless markers of the nation’: The routine flagging of nationhood across the visual environment Michael Skey (2797084) Sociology not elsewhere classified Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Banal nationalism Everyday nationhood Nationalism Visual studies Britain Photographic surveys Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Sociology The visual environment has increasingly been used as a lens with which to understand wider processes of social and economic change with studies employing in-depth qualitative approaches to focus on, for example, gentrification or trans-national networks. This exploratory paper offers an alternative perspective by using a novel method, quantitative photo mapping, to examine the extent to which a particular socio-cultural marker, the nation, is ‘flagged’ across three contrasting sites in Britain. As a multi-national state with an increasingly diverse population, Britain offers a particularly fruitful case study, drawing in debates around devolution, European integration and Commonwealth migration. In contributing to wider debates around banal nationalism, the paper notes the extent to which nations are increasingly articulated through commerce, consumption and market exchange and the overall significance of everyday markers (signs, objects, infrastructure) in naturalising a national view of the world. 2015-08-10T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/21997 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Mindless_markers_of_the_nation_The_routine_flagging_of_nationhood_across_the_visual_environment/9475646 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Sociology not elsewhere classified Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Banal nationalism Everyday nationhood Nationalism Visual studies Britain Photographic surveys Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Sociology Michael Skey Mindless markers of the nation’: The routine flagging of nationhood across the visual environment |
| title | Mindless markers of the nation’: The routine flagging of nationhood across the visual environment |
| title_full | Mindless markers of the nation’: The routine flagging of nationhood across the visual environment |
| title_fullStr | Mindless markers of the nation’: The routine flagging of nationhood across the visual environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mindless markers of the nation’: The routine flagging of nationhood across the visual environment |
| title_short | Mindless markers of the nation’: The routine flagging of nationhood across the visual environment |
| title_sort | mindless markers of the nation’: the routine flagging of nationhood across the visual environment |
| topic | Sociology not elsewhere classified Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Banal nationalism Everyday nationhood Nationalism Visual studies Britain Photographic surveys Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Sociology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/21997 |