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Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’
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This Special Issue of the European Educational Research Journal (Special Issue) contributes to
the ongoing debate on the relationship between education, nationalism and populism to
enhance scholarly understanding of the construction and maintenance of nationalism. The
special issue consists in total of six original articles that cover different sources, spaces and
forms of nationalism: banal and virulent, strategic and habitual, reproduced by state actors and
power elites versus individuals or groups who echo, subvert or extend the official narratives
and nationalism as both nested in topographical spaces as well as in topological relations. It
foregrounds the specificity of nationalism as a discursive-material-affective practice that unfolds
contextually. The articles highlight, for instance, the relationships between nationalism and other
`isms’ (populism, religious conservatism and authoritarianism) and the evolving processes such
as climate emergency, improving recognition of indigenous rights, ambiguous expertisation or
ubiquitous digitalisation. Overall, for the sociologies of education, the special issue highlights the
importance of exploring both how education reproduces nationalism and how nationalism (as a
strategy, practice, discourse, place-building and position-legitimating or affect) intervenes in and
takes advantage of education.
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Nationalism Populism Education Topology Expertise Church Language education Earthly politics
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Citation
Piattoeva, N., Viseu, S., & Wirthová, J. (2023). Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’. European Educational Research Journal, 22(5), 595-606. https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041231188413
Publisher
Sage