Researczh in Brief How to Do Things with Brands: Uses of National Identity

摘要

Just when the hegemony of the national form seemed well and truly on the wane, its claims to authority and legitimacy compromised by all manner of networks, "scapes" (Appadurai, 1997), and flows, a series of contemporary events has re-ignited the national discourse. Current crises of value-economic, political, cultural, and moral-have raised the possibility that the protections and provisions offered by the nation-state may be powerful antidotes to the anxieties of global disjunctures. Amid calls to regulate and rebuild the architecture of global integration, the potential of the national imaginary has come once again to the fore.