Nationalism As a Social Imaginary: Negotiations of Social Signification and (Dis)Integrating Discourses in Britain, France and Poland Pascal-Yan Sayegh
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Nationalism as a Social Imaginary: Negotiations of Social Signification and (Dis)Integrating Discourses in Britain, France and Poland Pascal-Yan Sayegh To cite this version: Pascal-Yan Sayegh. Nationalism as a Social Imaginary: Negotiations of Social Signification and (Dis)Integrating Discourses in Britain, France and Poland. Political science. Université Jean Moulin - Lyon III, 2011. English. tel-00617618v3 HAL Id: tel-00617618 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00617618v3 Submitted on 29 Nov 2011 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. DOCTORAT D’ÉTUDES TRANSCULTURELLES Pascal Yan SAYEGH NATIONALISM AS A SOCIAL IMAGINARY: NEGOTIATIONS OF SOCIAL SIGNIFICATION AND (DIS)INTEGRATING DISCOURSES IN BRITAIN, FRANCE AND POLAND DIRECTEUR DE THÈSE Gregory B. LEE, Professeur, Université de Lyon – Jean Moulin CODIRECTEUR DE THÈSE Bo PETERSSON, Professeur, Malmö University Institut d'Études Transtextuelles et Transculturelles, Université de Lyon – Jean Moulin Avec la coopération du Centre for European Studies, Lund University – Contents – Contents .................................................................................................................. 3 Acknowledgements .............................................................................................7 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 9 A Very Late Modernity ..................................................................10 The Significance of Nationalism....................................................12 Logos..............................................................................................15 Cosmos...........................................................................................17 Overture – De Labyrintho ..............................................................................21 Chapter 1 – Entering The Maze Of Nationalism ................................... 23 PART 1 – APPROACHING NATIONALISM ......................................................... 25 1. Selected Manifestations of Nationalism in Europe since 1989 ........ 25 2. Typologies and Binary Oppositions.......................................... 30 3. Approaches to Nationalism ...................................................... 36 4. Transcending or Realigning Tendencies? ................................ 42 PART 2 – THE REPRODUCTION OF NATIONALISM .......................................... 47 1. History and Tradition ............................................................... 47 2. Selection and Determinism ...................................................... 53 3. Every-day Nationalism ..............................................................61 Chapter 2 – Ariadne's Thread ...................................................................... 65 PART 1 – THE NARRATION OF REALITY ......................................................... 67 1. Discursive Formations .............................................................. 67 2. Essentialist Short-cuts.............................................................. 72 3. Unitas Multiplex ....................................................................... 78 PART 2 – THE IMAGINARY SPACE ..................................................................87 1. Dimensions of Culture...............................................................87 2. The Institution of Ideology .......................................................92 Figuring the Forms of Ideology .....................................92 The Reduction of Culture ................................................97 3. The Design of Patterns............................................................ 101 Aperture – De Ligaturis ................................................................................ 109 Chapter 3 – Strands In The History Of National Imaginaries ........113 PART 1 – DISJUNCTIONS : PREMISES OF NATIONAL PLOTS .............................115 1. Empire of Many Nations ..........................................................115 2. Republican Risings.................................................................. 120 3. Nation of Many Estates........................................................... 124 The Pyramids of Injustice ............................................ 124 The Œcumene of Barbarians ....................................... 129 4. Republic of Many Nations: Avant-garde?............................... 132 PART 2 – CONJUNCTIONS : LINEAR TRAJECTORIES ....................................... 139 1. National Reverie...................................................................... 139 2. Empires of Myths.................................................................... 144 3. Modelled Territories ............................................................... 149 4. Rationalised Races .................................................................. 155 The Scientist Turn ......................................................... 155 The Cultural Turn ......................................................... 158 Chapter 4 – Contemporary Sections .........................................................161 PART 1 – POLITICAL (D IS )I NTEGRATIONS : THE OTHERS WITHIN ................. 163 1. Religious Demarcations........................................................... 163 2. Marginal Assimilations ........................................................... 170 3. Historical Alignments ............................................................. 178 PART 2 – DEVIATIONS AND REPRODUCTIONS ............................................... 185 1. Appropriations of Extremism.................................................. 185 2. Hooliganationalism.................................................................190 3. Transnationalist Power Metal................................................. 195 PART 3 – TRANSGRESSIONS : BINARIES REVISITED ...................................... 201 1. Fixity and Fluidity of Hybridity .............................................. 201 2. Essentialist Cosmopolitanism ................................................206 3. The 'Two Nations' Rap Remix ................................................. 211 Closure – De Nihilo .........................................................................................217 Conclusion ..........................................................................................................219 Layout..........................................................................................219 Chaos ...........................................................................................221 Annexes ............................................................................................................... 225 Annex 1 ....................................................................................... 225 Annex 2....................................................................................... 226 Annex 3....................................................................................... 227 Annex 4....................................................................................... 229 Annex 5 ....................................................................................... 230 Annex 6........................................................................................231 Annex 7 ....................................................................................... 233 Annex 8....................................................................................... 234 Annex 9....................................................................................... 236 Bibliography ...................................................................................................... 239 Books and Monographs.............................................................. 239 Academic Articles and Contributions......................................... 252 Press Articles ...............................................................................257 Other Sources ............................................................................. 259 Résumé ................................................................................................................ 263 Introduction................................................................................ 263 1. Le labyrinthe du nationalisme ................................................ 265 2. Le fil d’Ariane ..........................................................................271 3. Filaments des Histoires Imaginaires Nationales.................... 276 4. Sections contemporaines........................................................ 283 Conclusion ..................................................................................288 – Acknowledgements – This doctoral dissertation would not have been possible without the kind and rigorous advice of my supervisors, Professor Gregory Lee and Professor Bo Petersson. I am very grateful for their invaluable support and intellectual