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-00617618v1 HAL Id: tel-00617618 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00617618v1 Submitted on 29 Aug 2011 (v1), last revised 29 Nov 2011 (v3) 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’Etudes Transculturelles Pascal Yan SAYEGH NATIONALISM AS A SOCIAL IMAGINARY: NEGOTIATIONS OF SOCIAL SIGNIFICATION AND (DIS)INTEGRATING DISCOURSES IN BRITAIN, FRANCE AND POLAND Le 8 Avril 2011, Université de Lyon – Jean Moulin DIRECTEUR DE THESE Gregory B. LEE , Professeur, Université de Lyon – Jean Moulin CODIRECTEUR DE THESE Bo PETERSSON , Professeur, Malmö University MEMBRES DU JURY Michael DUTTON , Professeur, Goldsmiths University of London Gregory B. LEE , Professeur, City University of Hong Kong Bo PETERSSON , Professeur, Malmö University Raymond TARAS , Professeur, Tulane University DOCTORAT D’ETUDES TRANSCULTURELLES PASCAL YAN SAYEGH NATIONALISM AS A SOCIAL IMAGINARY: NEGOTIATIONS OF SOCIAL SIGNIFICATION AND (DIS)INTEGRATING DISCOURSES IN BRITAIN, FRANCE AND POLAND DIRECTEUR DE THESE Gregory B. LEE, Professeur, Université de Lyon – Jean Moulin CODIRECTEUR DE THESE Bo PETERSSON, Professeur, Malmö University Institut d'Etudes 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 ...................................................................... 13 Logos ...................................................................................................................... 16 Cosmos .................................................................................................................. 18 – Overture – De Labyrintho ......................................................................................... 21 – Chapter 1 – Entering the Maze of Nationalism ...................................... 23 – Part 1 – Approaching Nationalism.......................................................................... 24 1. Selected Manifestations of Nationalism in Europe since 1989 ............. 24 2. Typologies and Binary Oppositions ............................................................ 29 3. Approaches to Nationalism .......................................................................... 35 4. Transcending or Realigning Tendencies? ..................................................42 – Part 2 – The Reproduction of Nationalism...........................................................47 1. History and Tradition ..................................................................................... 47 2. Selection and Determinism ........................................................................... 54 3. Every-day Nationalism ...................................................................................63 – Chapter 2 – Ariadne's Thread ............................................................................... 67 – Part 1 – The Narration of Reality............................................................................. 68 1. Discursive Formations ................................................................................... 68 2. Essentialist Short-cuts .................................................................................... 73 3. Unitas Multiplex ............................................................................................... 79 – Part 2 – The Imaginary Space................................................................................... 88 1. Dimensions of Culture .................................................................................... 88 2. The Institution of Ideology ............................................................................. 94 Figuring the Forms of Ideology .............................................................94 The Reduction of Culture .......................................................................99 3. The Design of Patterns ................................................................................ 104 – Aperture – De Ligaturis ........................................................................................... 113 – Chapter 3 – Strands in the History of National Imaginaries ..... 117 – Part 1 – Disjunctions: Premises of National Plots ........................................... 118 1. Empire of Many Nations ............................................................................. 118 2. Republican Risings ...................................................................................... 123 3. Nation of Many Estates ............................................................................... 127 The Pyramids of Injustice ................................................................... 127 The Œcumene of Barbarians ............................................................. 133 4. Republic of Many Nations: Avant-garde? ................................................. 136 – Part 2 – Conjunctions: Linear Trajectories ....................................................... 142 1. National Reverie ........................................................................................... 142 2. Empires of Myths ......................................................................................... 148 3. Modelled Territories .................................................................................... 153 4. Rationalised Races ....................................................................................... 159 The Scientist Turn .............................................................................. 159 The Cultural Turn ............................................................................... 162 – Chapter 4 – Contemporary Sections ............................................................ 165 – Part 1 – Political (Dis)Integrations: The Others Within............................... 166 1. Religious Demarcations .............................................................................. 166 2. Marginal Assimilations ................................................................................ 173 3. Historical Alignments .................................................................................. 182 – Part 2 – Deviations and Reproductions .............................................................. 189 1. Appropriations of Extremism .................................................................... 189 2. Hooliganationalism ...................................................................................... 194 3. Transnationalist Power Metal ................................................................... 199 – Part 3 – Transgressions: Binaries Revisited..................................................... 206 1. Fixity and Fluidity of Hybridity .................................................................. 206 2. Essentialist Cosmopolitanism .................................................................... 212 3. The 'Two Nations' Rap Remix ................................................................... 216 – Closure – De Nihilo ........................................................................................................223 – Conclusion –.......................................................................................................................225 Layout ..................................................................................................................225 Chaos ....................................................................................................................227 – Annexes –.............................................................................................................................231 Annex 1 ................................................................................................................231 Annex 2 ................................................................................................................232 Annex 3 ................................................................................................................233 Annex 4 ................................................................................................................235