Table of Contents

Contents: "What nationalism is all about": state socialisation and the national project - "Eat your peas and love your country": everyday socialisation and banal nationalism - Socialisation to the nation, socialisation to politics - The child and the nation - Self and Nation - Self and Other - Home, Homeland and Affect - Power and Politics - The Nursemaid of Nations.

About the Author

Katharine Throssell is an associate researcher at the Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique in Paris, specialising in the study of political socialisation. She obtained her PhD in political science/ political sociology at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.