Queering the ground: A performative reading of Siniša Malešević’s Grounded Nationalisms
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2019-07-16Author
Ryan, Kevin
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Ryan, K. (2019). Queering the ground: A performative reading of Siniša Malešević’s Grounded Nationalisms. Irish Journal of Sociology, 27(3), 309–314. https://doi.org/10.1177/0791603519863298
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This comment uses Judith Butler s theory of performativity to engage critically with Sini a Male ević's claim that nationalism is so deeply grounded in everyday social life that it has become omnipotent . The gist of the intervention is to drill deeper into the contingency of nationalism by looking at how authoritarian, racialized, mono-cultural, patriarchal and heteronormative nationalisms are vulnerable to subversive acts of improvisation that blur the boundary between aesthetics and politics.