Re-Imagining the Nation - Zolner, Mette
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Why are national identities imagined in one way rather than in another? The book analyses national imaginations as an on-going reconstruction process in a political and social context in which several imaginations of the nation struggle to impose their conception. Focusing on a fundamental element of any collective identity, namely the "Other", the book looks at the reconstruction of national identities by actors in political debates on immigration in the late 1980s and 1990s, particularly associations and political clubs which were in favour of and against the presence of immigrant minorities…mehr

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Why are national identities imagined in one way rather than in another? The book analyses national imaginations as an on-going reconstruction process in a political and social context in which several imaginations of the nation struggle to impose their conception. Focusing on a fundamental element of any collective identity, namely the "Other", the book looks at the reconstruction of national identities by actors in political debates on immigration in the late 1980s and 1990s, particularly associations and political clubs which were in favour of and against the presence of immigrant minorities in their respective countries. Thus, the book investigates different ways of imagining the same nation in two old European nation-states, namely France and Denmark, which differ with regard to their nation-building processes, their Second World War history, their memory of colonialism and their experience of immigration. It is thus possible to illustrate that existing ideas of the nation and memories of historical events shape the way in which the nation could be re-imagined in the 1980s and 1990s.
Autorenporträt
The Author: Mette Zølner is Assistant Professor in French Studies at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School. She holds a doctorate in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence, an M.A. in European Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and an M.A. in French Studies from Århus University in Denmark and Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. Currently she is investigating identity constructions and transformations amongst political, economic and administrative elites in France.