This article demonstrates how nineteenth-century Scottish touring circus sits at the intersection of National Drama and imperial spectacle circus. It offers a timely analysis (inter)nationalism nation formation were interwoven with imperialist discourse in popular public imaginaries. By analysing deployment investment Unionist-nationalist imagery playbills, newspapers, life-writing accounts, ar...

Symbolic Values, Value Formation and Interpersonal Relations Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts the interaction between two values, one associated with an inherited ethnic trait (“nationa...

The Kimbanguists, whose church is based on the healing and proclamation ministry of Simon Kimbangu in 1921 Belgian Congo, challenge colonially defined borders identities multiple ways. Anticolonialism DNA Kimbanguism, yet a manner that contests inherited dichotomy between religion politics. Kimbanguists draw from holistic Kongo traditions, where spiritual material/political are inherently inter...

Herder is often considered a cultural nationalist rather than a political nationalist. Although there is a measure of truth in this assessment, it overlooks the important passages in Herder’s writings where he did make political claims about the nation. The article explores the basis of these claims, and tries to articulate what is theoretically interesting and plausible in Herder’s account. He...

The monarchy, Nepali language, and Hinduism have been instrumental in the development of nationalism, issues related to ethnicity, race, region systematically ignored formation state. Likewise, national literature Nepal until 1990s was dominated by writers from Hindu upper caste who spoke primarily for ruling class, often undermining diversity an otherwise heterogeneous nation. However, politic...

This article explores some of the latest developments in the scholarship on race relations and nationalism that seek to address the impact of globalization and the changed geo-political relations of the first decade of the twenty-first century. New patterns of identification, some of which challenge existing group boundaries and others that reinforce them, can be seen to flow from the effects o...

Political thought and behavior play an important role in our lives, from ethnic tensions in Europe, to the war in Iraq and the Middle Eastern conflict, to parliamentary and presidential elections. However, little is known about how the individual's political attitudes and decisions are shaped by subtle national cues that are so prevalent in our environment. We report a series of experiments tha...

This study focuses on the history of relations between the Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo during a relatively extensive period, starting with the demise of the Ottoman Empire to present. It examines the process of the division of Kosovo society along ethnic, cultural, and religious lines that eventually made the seizure of power possible by nationalistic conservatives. The study investigates bot...

By nuancing the politics of consumption in the context of austerity, this paper highlights the rise of economic nationalism and the reconfiguration of consumer cultures at the aftermath of the global financial crisis. As it argues, in the context of Greece, three types of consumer cultures have manifested evoking consumption as resilience, resistance, or reinforcement. This work focuses on the ...