Enacting national concerns: Anglo-British accounts of the 2002 Royal Golden Jubilee
Enacting national concerns: Anglo-British accounts of the 2002 Royal Golden Jubilee
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表达国家关切：英英两国对 2002 年皇家金禧年的记述
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2011
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J. Abell
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Clifford Stevenson;J. Abell
尽管社会心理学中对民族认同的研究已经考察了民族群体被“想象”的各种方式，但很少有人关注许多集体的民族纪念、庆祝活动和假定团结民族的国家仪式。这是令人惊讶的，因为世界各地现代国家的日历上充满了庆祝和纪念活动的数量，并且社会科学家认为这些庆祝和纪念活动在国家共同体的再生产中发挥了一定作用。以 2002 年英国皇家金禧庆典为例，本研究探讨了在这些活动期间和之后的对话采访中如何体现对英英民族认同的理解。与之前对英英主义的考察一致，我们的受访者通常拒绝将民族共同体想象为同质的整体，并与将禧年描述为民族主义事件保持距离。对禧年的支持取决于该活动的非政治性和包容性。我们认为，此类集体国家活动可能会促进以多样性和包容性而非同质性和排他性来想象国家社区的方式。
Although the study of national identity in social psychology has examined the various ways in which the national group is ‘imagined’, little attention has been paid to the many collective national commemorations, celebrations and rituals of state assumed to unite the nation. This is surprising given the number of celebrations and commemorations which fill the calendars of modern nations throughout the world and which are assumed by social scientists to play some part in the reproduction of the national community. Taking the British Royal Golden Jubilee celebrations of 2002, the present study examines how understandings of Anglo-British national identity are manifest in conversational interviews during and after these events. In line with previous examinations of Anglo-Britishness, our respondents typically resisted imagining the national community as a homogenous whole and distanced themselves from depictions of the Jubilee as a nationalistic event. Support for the Jubilee was contingent upon the event being apolitical and inclusive.We suggest that such collective national events could potentially facilitate ways of imagining the national community in terms of diversity and inclusivity rather than homogeneity and exclusivity.