{"product_id":"the-clamour-of-nationalism-race-and-nation-in-twenty-first-century-britain-9781526126122","title":"The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and Nation in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNationalism has reasserted itself today as the political force of our times, remaking European politics wherever one looks. Britain is no exception, and in the midst of Brexit, it has even become a vanguard of nationalism’s confident return to the mainstream. Intellectual attempts to account for nationalism’s resurgence have however floundered. Desperately trying to read nationalism through one overarching cause – as capitalist crisis, as cultural backlash, or as social media led anti-Establishment politics – these accounts have proven woefully inadequate. This book argues that the only way to understand nationalism is through nationalism itself. To understand it as the key force of modernity that calls upon all existing ideological traditions in asserting its appeal: whether it is liberal, conservative, neoliberal or left-wing. This ideological clamour that characterises today’s British nationalism requires both recognition and theorisation. A meaningful understanding of new nationalism must reckon with the ideological range animating it and the deeply hostile aversion to different racial minorities that pervades its respective ideologies. Drawing on a variety of cultural and political themes – ranging from Corbyn’s dithering, the cult of Churchillism, the neoliberal fixation with a ‘point-system’ immigration policy, the muscular secularism of Richard Dawkins and friends, fears that the white working class have ‘become black’, and even simply the strange appeal of Harry Potter and Game of Thrones – this book provides a dazzling but always detailed study of how nationalism is the politics of today only because it is a politics of everything.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Valluvan has written a brave and ambitious book. Its strength lies in its analytical sophistication, its teasing out of the various strands of the dominant ideologies of our time.'\u003cbr\u003eKrishan Kumar, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'With a rare intelligence, \u003ci\u003eThe clamour of nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e reopens and re-situates debates over nationalism. Valluvan examines its relation to racism and its shortcomings as a vehicle for progressive or radical reconstruction. Along the way, he skewers the idiocy of Left nationalisms and enumerates the depressing developments unfolding across Europe. This urgent survey conveys the shocking discovery that the aggressive pathology of Britain’s brexit is not, in fact, Britain’s alone.'\u003cbr\u003e Paul Gilroy, author of \u003ci\u003eThere Ain't No Black in the Union Jack \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAfter Empire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'At once erudite and entertaining, this book rattles along with the urgency of a thriller, filling your head with new insights, jokes and take-downs along the way. You won't read a better account of the strange resilience of nationalism in our time.'\u003cbr\u003eGargi Bhattacharyya, University of East London  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Sivamohan Valluvan has written a  nuanced, carefully articulated, and admirably clear analysis mapping the \"new nationalism\"  gripping our times, its racial and xenophobic articulations as well as the intersections of its neoliberal and neoconservative prompts, inspirations, and expressions. Written in the spirit of  Stuart Hall's and Wendy Brown's work, Valluvan focuses especially on contemporary Britain but in ways more widely resonant. A compelling account advancing and deepening our comprehension of the driving issues  facing us today.'\u003cbr\u003e David Theo Goldberg, University of California\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'As nationalism rises to a fever pitch across the political spectrum, Valluvan pulls no punches in arguing against the brutal politics of border walls, migration raids and retrograde patriotism. His work is a light in dark times.'\u003cbr\u003e Eleanor Penny, Senior Editor at Novara Media and Online Editor at Red Pepper Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Amid the nationalist reflux of Europe and North America, pundits caught unawares have reached for reductive off-the-shelf analyses. They treat nationalism as the mere expression of something more familiar and reassuring: the economy, class, or voter stupidity. Sivamohan Valluvan’s astute, elegantly cussed study takes nationalism seriously. Here, nationalism is not written off as a reflex, but treated as a vehicle for the complex demands of diverse constituents assembled across the political spectrum. A vehicle for collective wishing and dreamwork. This, coupled with its ability to define the non-belonging outsiders against whom the nation can be roused, is exactly what accounts for its uncanny capaciousness, its ability to hegemonise the political terrain after a period of relative abeyance. He also warns the Left, parts of it too easily seduced by the song of nationalism, or by facile explanations of nationalism as a mere expression of familiar discontents, against acquiescing in this hegemony.'\u003cbr\u003e Richard Seymour, author of \u003ci\u003eCorbyn: The strange rebirth of radical politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe clamour of nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e’s achievement is not in its desire to explain why nationalist parties are on the rise (there are other books that have tackled this question),[1] for questions still pervade [...] Sivamohan Valluvan’s success is his ability to tackle these various strands to reveal an upsetting tapestry: race and the Nation-State are intimately interwoven. Drawing extensively on both past and present sources, Valluvan provides a contemporary analysis of Arendt’s famous line (quoted above) as it relates to how racism operates in the political arena today.'\u003cbr\u003eTarek Younis, \u003ci\u003eDark Matter\u003c\/i\u003e, February 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Valluvan’s analysis is an essential guide through some complex theoretical and empirical arguments...As a relative stranger to this literature I found Valluvan’s energetic tour refreshing and inspiring. For any criminologist persuaded by the merits of Southern criminology it is essential reading.'\u003cbr\u003eTheoretical Criminology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I must conclude by stressing that this review does not do justice to the admirable intellectual work of Valluvan in \u003ci\u003eThe Clamour of Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e. This is a well-timed book that provides an extensive account of nationalism’s capacity to fill the ideological vacuum whenever needed to whatever ideological formation.I must conclude by stressing that this review does not do justice to the admirable intellectual work of Valluvan in \u003ci\u003eThe Clamour of Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e. This is a well-timed book that provides an extensive account of nationalism’s capacity to fill the ideological vacuum whenever needed to whatever ideological formation.'\u003cbr\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A highly engaging book that invites critical reflection and will certainly influence sociological understandings of nationalism for years to come.'\u003cbr\u003eMeghan Tinsley, University of Manchester\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: mapping the nation\u003cbr\u003e1 Theorising the nation\u003cbr\u003e2 Notes on two red herrings: progressive nationalism and populism\u003cbr\u003e3 Valuing the nation: liberalism, Muslims and nation-state values\u003cbr\u003e4 Conservatism and mourning the nation\u003cbr\u003e5 Unholy alliances: the neoliberal embrace of nation\u003cbr\u003e6 Left problems: the left and welfare state nationalism\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: absences and futures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515888472407,"sku":"9781526126122","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526126122.jpg?v=1745428160","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-clamour-of-nationalism-race-and-nation-in-twenty-first-century-britain-9781526126122","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}