McCrone, David
National Days
1. Introduction
David McCrone, Gayle McPherson
2. The Calendar Conundrum: National Days as Unstable Signifiers
Michael E. Geisler
3. Scotland Days: Evolving Nation and Icons
David McCrone
4. ‘We wanna show ’em who we are’: National Events in England
Michael Skey
5. ReMembering the Nation: Remembrance Days and the Nation in Ireland
John Poulter
6. Australia Day: A Day for All Australians?
Warren Pearson, Grant O’Neill
7. Afrikaner Nationalism’s Holy Day: From Commemoration through Hegemony to Delegitimation
P. Eric Louw
8. Successful Nation-Building and Ceremonial Triumph: Constitution Day in Norway
Gabriella Elgenius
9. Mediating the Nation: Celebrating 6
Magnus Rodell
10. The Politics of Calendar: Independence Day in the Republic of Finland
Heino Nyyssönen
11. Reunification Day — Day of German Unity?
Vera C. Simon
12. Difficult Days and National Calendars: Italy, Cultural Trauma and
Andrea Cossu
13. One Country, Three National Days: Nations, Citizenship and Media Discourses in Valencia
Enric Castelló, Rafael Castelló
14. Parading Conspicuous Identity: St. Patrick’s Day, New York
Gayle McPherson, Malcolm Foley, Aaron McIntosh
15. Marking Time: The Significance of National Days
David McCrone, Gayle McPherson
Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Political Science, Political Theory, Cultural Studies, Anthropology
- Editor
- McCrone, David
- McPherson, Gayle
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 246 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230251175
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-31468-3