Journal
PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Volume 41, Issue 5, Pages 600-617Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0309132516649453
Keywords
affect; banal nationalism; fire spatiality; infrastructure; materiality; mobilities; nationalism; Wales
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- UK Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/J011207/1]
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/J011207/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- AHRC [AH/J011207/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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In this paper we demonstrate how writings on affect, materiality and relationality necessitate a rethinking of theories of the nation, focusing on the intermittent emergence and flickering presence of nation-ness and national identity. In moving beyond Billig's notion of 'banal nationalism', we argue that the presencing/absencing, foregrounding/backgrounding, and individualizing/collectivizing of feelings results from the differential capacities for bodies to affect or be affected and the assembling of particular configurations of bodies and materials. We demonstrate this through a discussion of how national feelings and affects have gathered around two infrastructures in Wales, the A470 road and the Severn Bridge.
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