Banal NationalismRefers to the everyday representations of the nation which build an imagined sense of national solidarity and belonging amongst humans.
The movies analyzed in this website show many forms of banal nationalism. From American flags to the way people talk, banal nationalism can be seen everywhere in Miracle and Rocky IV. |
Geographical Imagination
A conceptual tool for use by individuals to compare their personal biographies to larger social structures within their specific historical era.It is built upon the sociological imagination by also examining politics and geographies at individual and structural levels of multiple scales. As such, people have argued it is a tool developed for social and spatial justice that people could use to compare themselves not only to larger social structures but to see the similarities and differences across spaces and times to fight various forms of oppression.It can also be described as the spatialized cultural and historical knowledge that characterizes social groups.