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[ecrea] New Book: Communicating the Nation

Mon May 10 18:47:59 GMT 2010



*New Book from Nordicom

Communicating the Nation**
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*National Topographies of Global Media Landscapes*
/Edited by Anna Roosvall & Inka Moring/

Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, 2010, 256 p. Price: EUR 30

The nation is one of the most resilient concepts in our understanding of
the world and its societies. Politics, sports and cultural events, in
news as well as in fiction, are largely structured by the national
logic. Internationalism -- be it in representation, production or
consumption -- does not challenge the privileged position of the nation.
Globalising processes do offer an alternative to the primacy of the
nation, but have so far been unable to overcome its dominance. The
nation's resilience is, in part, due to its continuing relevance:
ontologically, it offers a sense of territorial stability and security
while epistemologically it can supply a sense of familiarity and order
in the global landscape. This volume provides cutting edge analysis of
old and new architectures of the nation and its mediated presence in
everyday life. In an age of alleged globalisation, nations and
nation-states have been claimed to be out-dated. However, the
proclamation of the end of the nation (-state) has been premature.
Eschewing fashionable obituaries for media, geography and the nation,
leading media scholars explore the complex ideological and spatial
changes in contemporary understandings of the nation. The nation can be
seen as a nodal point of media discourse. Hence the power, the politics
and the poetics of the nation will be the subject of this book.

For more information see
http://www.nordicom.gu.se/eng.php?portal=publ&main=info_publ2.php&ex=313&me=13


Best regards,

Ulla C.

--
Ulla Carlsson, Dr., Professor
Director
NORDICOM
University of Gothenburg
Box 713
SE 405 30 Göteborg
www.nordicom.gu.se < http://www.nordicom.gu.se>
www.twitter.com/nordicom_news < http://www.twitter.com/nordicom_news>

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