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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453382103321

Autore

Auestad Lene

Titolo

Nationalism and the body politic / / by Lene Auestad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2013

ISBN

0-429-90229-8

0-367-10141-6

0-429-47752-X

1-78241-110-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

New international library of group analysis

Disciplina

324.954052

Soggetti

Ethnocentrism

Xenophobia

Sociobiology

Political sociology

Nationalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. Bodies and boundaries : xenophobic imaginings -- part II. Constellations of nationalism -- part III. History, longing, identification -- part IV. The "I" and mourning.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume aims to question the recent revival of neo-nationalist policies in the light of what unconscious fantasies are involved in these developments. It examines both recent movements of right-wing extremism and the way in which rearticulated neo-ethnic ideas have been adopted by mainstream politicians and in mainstream public discourse. Politicians from other than the right-wing populist parties have tended to resist specific ways of talking that are considered too extremist, rather than their underlying frame of interpretation. Governments across Europe have adopted anti-immigrant and anti-Roma policies. Xenophobia and hostility towards 'others' is on the rise, along with appeals to "Tradition and Security". 'Cultures of fear' are



linked with fantasies of fusion or 'imagined sameness'. Alongside the image of the nation as a mother and/or father, Reich (1933) called attention to the fantasy of the nation as a body, echoed in Money-Kyrle's (1939) characterization of 'group hypochondria' in connection with the burning of witches and heretics.