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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe durability of nations and nationalismNationhood remains a 'durable' political concept primarily due to its intimacy with the ongoing process of modernity...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhen a fire starts to burn: who wants to be national?
In this concluding piece of the re-birth of the nation series, the editor asks what these articles tell us about the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe time of the nation: negotiating global modernity
Against the 'contemporary' limits of global capitalism, and the pre-given myths of nationalism, an alternative...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe nation state is in rude health - solving the British puzzleNeither Britain nor its constituent countries show any sign of wanting to abandon the nation for "global...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTechnology and the nation-state: governing social complexity
The emergence of the nation-state as the central unit of political decision making was the result of a series of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNeurotic Britishness: why are we threatened by the multi-lingual home?
Recent calls for 'renewed' identities in the UK mean little so long as they fail to assess the role of the state in...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Golden Country: the organic myth of the British constitution
The nostalgic appeal to ‘the spirit of 45’ is embedded in a long myth of ‘public services’ propagated by the culture...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCareful what you wish for: thinking through the neoliberal nation
The destructive power of neoliberal globalization has prompted renewed interest in nationalism on the left. But the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFrom collective myth to counterpublics: negotiating national identity in an age of global flows
Monolithic accounts of national identity need to make way for a form of analysis capable of embracing the ambiguity...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKStatehood and the problem of flux: a case for interculturalism
While states attempt to assert their relevance in a global age through both multiculturalism and top-down...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFrontiers: a re-evaluationFor advocates of globalisation, the 'frontier' is often presented as an obstacle to universal freedom. But as the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe other global divide
What if London is drawing closer to New York and Dubai, but further away from Gloucestershire? Or still more...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNationhood and the multitude: a new form of political subject?In the frantic search to find an agreed name for emerging forms of collective agency, ‘the nation’ is frequently...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat does it mean to be a global citizen?
As technology advances and governance is increasingly conducted beyond the parameters of the nation-state, the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAfter Bretton Woods: from civic solidarity to political actionFrom Greece's Golden Dawn to America's Alex Jones, the populist right is utilising the global crisis as the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSovereignty and the national question
The British media's sidelining of Scotland and its referendum is part of a history in which questions of nationality...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBeyond carnival capitalism: London 2012 and its legacy of hopeLondon 2012 provided a key insight into the shifting relationships between global, national and local as residents...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLocal resistance to global austerity: it will never workThe localist form of citizenship may empower us, but it cannot confront capitalism. Against a global network of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFate of the First Born? English nationalism and Euroscepticism
One of the most respected contemporary voices on nationalism gives his take on an important new book exploring the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMulticulturalism and the nationThe proclaimed ‘failure’ of multiculturalism suggests the breakdown of a single process of integration. In fact, it...
