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SLS Lecture: National Belonging and Everyday Nationhood in the Age of Globalization: An Account of Global Flows in 21st Century Libya

This talk presents a study that explores the relation between national belonging, everyday nationhood and globalization in Libya. By combining Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper’s relational and processual approach to the study of nationalism with Arjun Appadurai’s framework of ‘global cultural flows’, it aims to understand the role of globalization in shaping everyday practices of nationhood and the individual’s sense of belonging to a nation in relation to nationalism as a political ideology and everyday phenomenon. The main focus of the study is on the change unleashed by the ICT revolution from the 1990s onwards and how this and the flows of Libyan people in and out the country affected the way the political elite, civil society and diaspora imagined the nation in the twenty-first century, before and in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution.

Feb 9, 2021 05:00 PM in London