Titlebook: National Days; Constructing and Mob David McCrone (Professor of Sociology),Gayle McPhe Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmilla

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,Parading Conspicuous Identity: St. Patrick’s Day, New York,ational capability and its political and market power. It is accepted that the imperatives of conspicuousness may have changed over time but that the ‘official’ and accepted celebration reinforces distant (and unsustainable) stereotypes whilst consciously distancing the group from more recent immigr

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Marking Time: The Significance of National Days,rlock Holmes, we may assume that the significance lies in the dog that does not bark. Some are heavily political, with marching bands and serious military parades; others are mainly cultural and ludic; some embody both. Others may be so objectionable, that we want them actively unremembered, or even

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Introduction,tter the essence of being a ‘national’ than setting aside a holiday on which to celebrate who we are, and how we got here, selecting a day to mark out calendrically what it means to be a member of a national community? National days are by no means the only memorial devices available, but having ann

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,‘We wanna show ’em who we are’: National Events in England,’t forget their national identity outside of special commemorations when national flags are waved en masse. He suggested that such events are ‘not sufficient to sustain a continuingly remembered national identity’ (.: 45) and pointed instead to the daily reproduction of nations through countless rou

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ReMembering the Nation: Remembrance Days and the Nation in Ireland,this statement it is not being suggested that nations are not also physically constructed through military action, administration and other material manifestations of power. Nations cannot be sustained, however, if such physical construction is not accompanied by the construction and maintenance of

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Australia Day: A Day for All Australians?,ial settler society towards a celebration of Australia as a postcolonial multicultural society. Contemporary celebration of Australia Day increasingly reflects the plural character of modern Australia, the complex and contested nature of Australian culture and identity. Diversity of origin and exper

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