Nationalism as a Social Imaginary: Negotiations of Social Signification and (Dis)Integrating Discourses in Britain, France and Poland

Pascal-Yan Sayegh

Since 1989, nationalism has once again become a major discursive theme in European public and political spaces. Nationalism has thus become "banalised" (according to Michael Billig), relegating the complexities of social histories to mere cultural 'Others'. The common origin of the resulting social