{"product_id":"national-affects-angharad-closs-stephens-9780755641475","title":"National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political","description":"\u003cp\u003eIdentity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made central to understanding the global politics of nationalism. This book asks what difference it makes when we address national identity as principally an affective force? \u003ci\u003eNational Affects\u003c\/i\u003e traces how ideas about 'us and them' take form in ordinary spaces, in ways that are both deeply felt and hardly noticeable, in studies of global events that range from the London 2012 Olympic Games to responses to acts of terror, the European refugee crisis and 'Brexit'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this timely intervention, Angharad Closs Stephens addresses the affective dimensions of being together to open new angles in the study of nationalism and global politics. She asks how the nation is felt in everyday life, as well as differently experienced, and investigates different forms of enacting being together to generate new insights in the study of national identity. \u003ci\u003eNational Affects \u003c\/i\u003edraws on academic theories in the study of Politics, International Relations and Human Geography, as well as stories, performance works and novels, to establish a new tone of critical enquiry. Informed by longstanding critical interrogations of the politics of 'us and them', this book argues that these ideas are not as stable as they are often made to seem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on a combination of artistic and academic interventions, this book offers a refreshing approach to conceptualising the politics of nationalism, identity and citizenship. In its focus on everyday atmospheres, it identifies new registers for intervening politically. Overall, \u003ci\u003eNational Affects\u003c\/i\u003e outlines other ways of imagining and practising being political together, beyond the exclusionary politics of nationalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Angharad Closs Stephens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0755641477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780755641475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d","brand":"Angharad Closs Stephens","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443654865151,"sku":"9780755641475","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6e711eac-c27b-429e-99a1-0ef21daf6877.jpg?v=1777206916","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/national-affects-angharad-closs-stephens-9780755641475","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}