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Representing the Nation gathers key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies to ask what role cultural insitutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #111480 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 488 pages

From the Back Cover
Representing the Nation brings together key writings on how the nation and its past is constructed and represented. Despite assertions that we are living in a period of globalisation, there has been a startling resurgence of nationalism, regionalism, and other assertions of local identity. The contributors to this Reader, who include leading thinkers in cultural studies, museum studies, sociology and cultural history, explore how our sense of national identity and of belonging to a nation come about, and what part museums, exhibitions and heritage sites play in this process.
The articles are grouped into thematic parts, each with an introduction by the editors. The opening part addresses how national cultures are invented and sustained through such strategies as the standardisation of language and the sidelining of regional cultures. In the second part, contributors examine the growth of heritage culture, and the ways in which the past is preserved

About the Author
David Boswell is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University. Jessica Evans is Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at the Open University.

Richard D. Altick, Arjun Appadurai, Tony Bennett, Carol A. Breckenridge, James Clifford, Philip Dodd, Carol Duncan, David Goodman, Stuart Hall, Robert Hewison, Eric Hobsbawn, Kenneth Hudson, Sharon Macdonald, Colin Mercer, Kevin Robins, Chris Rojek, Robert W. Rydell, Raphael Samuel, Roger Silverstone, Anthony D. Smith, John Urry, Patrick Wright