Queering the ground: A performative reading of Siniša Malešević’s Grounded Nationalisms

Abstract

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.