Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’

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Piattoeva, N. - Viseu, S. - Wirthová, Jitka
Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’.
European Educational Research Journal. Roč. 22, č. 5 (2023), s. 595-606. E-ISSN 1474-9041
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : nationalism * populism * education * topology * expertise * church * language education * earthly politics
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Impact factor: 1.9, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041231188413

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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