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From the English Cottage Garden to the Swedish Allotment: Banal Nationalism and the Concept of the Garden
This article considers Billig's concept of “banal nationalism” in relation to a comparative material culture study of ordinary English and Swedish gardens and gardeners. Banal nationalism is about the myriad everyday practices, rather than overt ideologies, by means of which nations reproduce themselves as nations. While Billig's own work considers this solely in terms of linguistic discourses in relation to such matters as political speech and reporting sporting events, this article is concerned with how everyday nationalism may be reproduced through the humble and mundane material practice of gardening, and its relationship to the gardens people both create in reality and imagine.
From the English Cottage Garden to the Swedish Allotment: Banal Nationalism and the Concept of the Garden
This article considers Billig's concept of “banal nationalism” in relation to a comparative material culture study of ordinary English and Swedish gardens and gardeners. Banal nationalism is about the myriad everyday practices, rather than overt ideologies, by means of which nations reproduce themselves as nations. While Billig's own work considers this solely in terms of linguistic discourses in relation to such matters as political speech and reporting sporting events, this article is concerned with how everyday nationalism may be reproduced through the humble and mundane material practice of gardening, and its relationship to the gardens people both create in reality and imagine.
From the English Cottage Garden to the Swedish Allotment: Banal Nationalism and the Concept of the Garden
Tilley, Christopher (author)
Home Cultures ; 5 ; 219-249
2008-07-01
31 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
nationalism , garden , gardening , social identity , Sweden , UK , material culture
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