[Commlist] New open access book: Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding populism through big data

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Heritage and 
Nationalism, by Chiara Bonacchi.   Download it free: https://bit.ly/3MQZpx9
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Heritage and Nationalism
Understanding populism through big data

By Chiara Bonacchi
   Free download: https://bit.ly/3MQZpx9

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How was the Roman Empire invoked in Brexit Britain and in Donald Trump’s 
United States of America, and to what purpose? And why is it critical to 
answer these kinds of questions? ‘Heritage and Nationalism’ explores how 
people’s perceptions and experiences of the ancient past shape political 
identities in the digital age. It particularly examines the multiple 
ways in which politicians, parties and private citizens mobilise aspects 
of the Iron Age, Roman and Medieval past of Britain and Europe to 
include or exclude ‘others’ based on culture, religion, class, race, 
ethnicity, etc.

Chiara Bonacchi draws on the results of an extensive programme of 
research involving both data-intensive and qualitative methods to 
investigate how pre-modern periods are leveraged to support or oppose 
populist nationalist arguments as part of social media discussions 
concerning Brexit, the Italian Election of 2018 and the US-Mexican 
border debate in the US. Analysing millions of tweets and Facebook 
posts, comments and replies, this book is the first to use big data to 
answer questions about public engagement with the past and identity 
politics. The findings and conclusions revise and reframe the meaning of 
populist nationalism today and help to build a shared basis for the 
democratic engagement of citizens in public life in the future. The book 
offers a fascinating and unmissable read for anyone interested in how 
the past and its contemporary legacy, or ‘heritage’, influence our 
‘political’ thinking and feeling in a time of hyper-interconnectivity.


Free download: https://bit.ly/3MQZpx9

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