Frontmatter -- Content -- Preface -- Section 1. Five Work Tasks and Three Modes of Operating Nationhood -- Chapter 1. Building Nations as a Profession: The Work Task Dynamic Operating upon Nationhood -- Chapter 2. Elaborating National Constructs as Strategies: The Work Task Dynamic Operating with Nationhood -- Chapter 3. The Power of States and Routines: The Work Task Dynamic Operated by Nationhood -- Section 2. The Unquestionability of a World Divided into Nations -- Chapter 4. Doing Nationhood and Making Nations: The Everyday Significance of Living in a World of Nations -- Chapter 5. Lived Nationhood in Montreal and Brussels: A Model Particular to Bi-Ethnonational Milieus -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
Summary
How are nations (continued to be) made? In this important contribution to nationalism studies, Dave Poitras explores how nationhood and the idea of living in a world of nations are experienced in the cities of Montreal and Brussels. Drawing on ethnographic research, he identifies three typical ways of enacting nationhood, thereby capturing the various dynamics through which non-political actors "do nationhood". In particular, Poitras explores the question of marginalization in bi-ethnonational milieus, demonstrating how bi-ethnicity is hegemonic in Brussels and Montreal because it is legitimized by individuals' everyday activities
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2019)
