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This book analyses the current debates around national identity and multiculturalism by addressing three key questions; why do so many people treat as common sense the idea that they live in and belong to nations? And, why, and for whom, might this idea be significant, notably in an era of increasing global uncertainty?

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Acknowledgements Introduction: What´s Going On? Theorising National Discourse ´Football, Tea and Racism´: Talking With and About the Nation ´Aggressively Defensive´: Managing Perceived Threats to the Nation ´We Knew Who we Were´: Ecstatic Nationalism and Social Solidarity ´It Broadens our Horizons´: Are We all Cosmopolitan Now? Conclusions Bibliography Endnotes

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MICHAEL SKEY is Lecturer in Media & Culture at University of East Anglia, UK. His research interests include nations and nationalism, theories of everyday life, cosmopolitanism, media rituals and sport and he has published work on these subjects in a range of journals including Nations & Nationalism, Sociological Review, Journal of Cultural Geography, Ethnicities and Cultural Sociology.

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