TY - JOUR
T1 - Who still needs the nation? Empire, identity and the British welfare state
AU - Meer, Nasar
PY - 2022/1/22
Y1 - 2022/1/22
N2 - It is difficult to conceive of a re-imagination of “us” by focusing solely on the state, especially where the intended objective is to trouble the prevailing national project. If national projects, like racial projects, must be laboured at to be sustained, then in the case of Britishness we find a rich vein of contestation by those left out of its formal narration. It is on this point that the discussion will focus, beginning with a preliminary but unstated question that warrants explicit attention, namely: why re-make national projects at all?
AB - It is difficult to conceive of a re-imagination of “us” by focusing solely on the state, especially where the intended objective is to trouble the prevailing national project. If national projects, like racial projects, must be laboured at to be sustained, then in the case of Britishness we find a rich vein of contestation by those left out of its formal narration. It is on this point that the discussion will focus, beginning with a preliminary but unstated question that warrants explicit attention, namely: why re-make national projects at all?
KW - empire
KW - identity
KW - nation
KW - race
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85120433092&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1468-4446.12910
DO - 10.1111/1468-4446.12910
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85120433092
VL - 73
SP - 50
EP - 59
JO - British Journal of Sociology
JF - British Journal of Sociology
SN - 0007-1315
IS - 1
ER -