Reproducing the nation

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dc.contributor.authorYumul, A
dc.contributor.authorÖzkirimli, U
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:48:50Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:48:50Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractNationalism is an elusive concept, resisting all attempts at formulating an all-embracing definition. Despite this Janus-faced character, however, the literature on nationalism abounds with definitions and theories designed to explain its rise. In a groundbreaking study, Michael Billig (1995) challenges the orthodox conceptions of nationalism and introduces the term 'banal nationalism' to cover all those unnoticed, routine practices and ideological habits which enable the daily reproduction of nationhood. The newspapers play a major role in this 'unmindful' process of reproduction. This article is inspired by Billig's day survey of British newspapers. Replicating Billig's analysis in the Turkish context, the article examines 38 newspapers on a randomly selected day. In the course of the survey, the presentation and content of the news are analysed and the articles of the columnists and the advertisements are dissected. The results of the survey do not deviate from Billig's findings in the British case: the Turkish newspapers constantly 'flag' nationhood. The fundamental premises of nationalist ideology are taken for granted and all debates are conducted within the parameters of the nationalist discourse. The article concludes by raising the following question: is there an alternative to this state of affairs?en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/016344300022006005
dc.identifier.endpage+en_US
dc.identifier.issn0163-4437
dc.identifier.issue6en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-0034365942en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage787en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/016344300022006005
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/7969
dc.identifier.volume22en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000165609500005en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofMedia Culture & Societyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectBanal Nationalismen_US
dc.subjectDiscourse Analysisen_US
dc.subjectReproduction Of Nationhooden_US
dc.subjectEthnicityen_US
dc.titleReproducing the nation
dc.typeArticle

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