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Author Bonacchi, Chiara, author.

Title Heritage and nationalism : understanding populism through big data / Chiara Bonacchi.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2022.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 209 pages) : illustrations (colour).
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary How was the Roman Empire invoked in Brexit Britain and in Donald Trump's United States of America, and to what purpose? And why is it critical to answer these kinds of questions? Heritage and Nationalism explores how people's perceptions and experiences of the ancient past shape political identities in the digital age. It particularly examines the multiple ways in which politicians, parties and private citizens mobilise aspects of the Iron Age, Roman and Medieval past of Britain and Europe to include or exclude 'others' based on culture, religion, class, race, ethnicity, etc. Chiara Bonacchi draws on the results of an extensive programme of research involving both data-intensive and qualitative methods to investigate how pre-modern periods are leveraged to support or oppose populist nationalist arguments as part of social media discussions concerning Brexit, the Italian Election of 2018 and the US-Mexican border debate in the US. Analysing millions of tweets and Facebook posts, comments and replies, this book is the first to use big data to answer questions about public engagement with the past and identity politics. The findings and conclusions revise and reframe the meaning of populist nationalism today and help to build a shared basis for the democratic engagement of citizens in public life in the future. The book offers a fascinating and unmissable read for anyone interested in how the past and its contemporary legacy, or 'heritage', influence our 'political' thinking and feeling in a time of hyper-interconnectivity.
Note Print version record.
Contents Introduction -- Using big data -- Nationalism, populism and the past -- Italian populism and the 2018 Election -- The Brexit referendum -- The 'great wall' of Trump -- Experts, authority and social fabrics -- Conclusion: a new perspective.
Subject Cultural property -- Political aspects.
Cultural property -- Data processing.
Nationalism.
Big data -- Social aspects.
Nationalisme.
Données volumineuses -- Aspect social.
nationalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Big data -- Social aspects
Cultural property -- Data processing
Nationalism
Other Form: Print version: BONACCHI, CHIARA. HERITAGE AND NATIONALISM. [Place of publication not identified] : UCL PRESS, 2022 1787358038 (OCoLC)1266357970
ISBN 9781787358010 (electronic bk.)
1787358011 (electronic bk.)
1787358038
9781787358034
178735802X
9781787358027
9781787358041 (ePub ebook)
1787358046
9781787358058 (Kindle ebook)
1787358054
Standard No. AU@ 000071302204
UKMGB 020426406
AU@ 000073924839

 
    
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