SYMBOLS AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS IN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATIONS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
SYMBOLS AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS IN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATIONS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY

Summary/Abstract: The idea for this special issue evolved in the framework of the project Discourses of the Nation and the National, conducted at the University of Oslo (ILOS), which held the symposium National Symbols across Time and Space in September 2015. Starting from a general assumption that some crucial aspects of the “nation” and the “national” are constructed and deconstructed in discourse, and that national social formations and nationalisms are persistent phenomena although they experience transformations and reappear under the guise of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism, the project comparatively studied various aspects of the national across various discourses.

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