[Air-L] 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age: Online Book Launch This Wednesday

[Vico,S]

New Date for Online Book Launch of 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age (published with Routledge, London in December 2024):

Monday, 7 April | 17:30-19:00

To attend, please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kpf3-fUESGG07vxFNLi05w#/registration

The book's author, Sanja Vico, University of Exeter, will be joined by Mirca Madianou, Goldsmiths, University of London, Sandra Obradovic, Open University, and Birgul Yilmaz, University of Exeter. The book presentation and discussion will be followed by Q&A. For more information about the event and speakers, please see here: https://asen.ac.uk/event/vico/

The book is based on over 3-year-long ethnographic research (including digital and traditional ethnography) and 40 in-depth interviews with Serbian migrants in London and introduces a new theory and concept of national identity - 'doing nation' - to argue that national identities come into being and are sustained through everyday mediated interpersonal communication. As such, the book argues the nation represents embodied cultural and discursive practices, and not an abstract imagined community, and should be thought of as a verb - 'doing nation', a dynamic process. For more details about the book or to purchase it, please see here: https://www.routledge.com/Doing-Nation-in-a-Digital-Age-Banal-Nationalism-and-Cosmopolitanism-in-Polymedia-Environments/Vico/p/book/9780367625894?srsltid=AfmBOorvHMka-jo-2J0xzI6-eBO8E3ZGYyLaMlXWTWYg0504pMMfldjA
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This book introduces a new theory of national identity, arguing that the nation does not only represent an abstract “imagined community” but also represents embodied cultural and discursive practices. Drawing upon a detailed case study of Serbian Londoners, this truly interdisciplinary study positions media as constitutive of national identities. The author contends that nations come into ...
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Any questions, please feel free to contact Sanja Vico at s.vico at exeter.ac.uk.


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Subject: 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age: Online Book Launch This Wednesday

With apologies for cross-posting,


You are warmly invited to the online launch of the monograph 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age: Banal Expressions of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments<https://www.routledge.com/Doing-Nation-in-a-Digital-Age-Banal-Nationalism-and-Cosmopolitanism-in-Polymedia-Environments/Vico/p/book/9780367625894?srsltid=AfmBOorvHMka-jo-2J0xzI6-eBO8E3ZGYyLaMlXWTWYg0504pMMfldjA>, published with Routledge in December 2024<https://www.routledge.com/Doing-Nation-in-a-Digital-Age-Banal-Nationalism-and-Cosmopolitanism-in-Polymedia-Environments/Vico/p/book/9780367625894?srsltid=AfmBOorvHMka-jo-2J0xzI6-eBO8E3ZGYyLaMlXWTWYg0504pMMfldjA>. The event is co-organised by the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) and the Centre for European Studies (CES) at the University of Exeter. The book tackles the issue of national identity in the age of digital media from a migration perspective, and introduces a theory and concept of 'doing nation' that puts emphasis on mediated interpersonal everyday communication practices in creating and sustaining the nation and makes an argument that the nation represents embodied cultural and discursive practices.


Date: Wednesday, 19 March 4:30-6:00 pm (GMT)

Location: Online/ Zoom (to attend, please register below)

Presenter: Dr Sanja Vico (Author), University of Exeter

Chair: Dr David Landon Cole, ASEN

Speakers: Professor Mirca Madianou, Goldsmiths, University of London; Dr Sandra Obradovic, Open University; Dr Birgul Yilmaz, University of Exeter


For more information about this event and to register, please follow this link: https://asen.ac.uk/event/vico/

For any questions about the book or the event, please contact the author at s.vico at exeter.ac.uk<mailto:s.vico at exeter.ac.uk>.