This book explores the multiform and shifting location of borders and boundaries in social
life, related to difference and belonging. It contributes to understanding categories of …

How to theorize the nation's Janus-like form, its simultaneous modernity and antiquity? This
paper provides an original answer to this longstanding question. It argues that nations arise …

Love is a theme at the centre of all our lives, including those of sociologists and social
scientists. It has been widely addressed and described in literature and poetry, extensively …

While radical right parties commonly advance conservative gender positions, research on
radical right voters' gender attitudes remains inconclusive. To understand radical right …

Existing accounts of Kurdish nationalism can be mapped onto the main theories of
nationalism, that is, primordialism, ethnosymbolism and modernism. These theories …

Critical scholars have long called for state recognition of de facto families, beyond legal or
biological ties, as a pathway toward inclusion of more diverse family forms. This article asks …

This article explores the gendered nature of Hindu and Buddhist nationalism in India and Sri
Lanka. Nationalist movements have become increasingly prevalent in both countries and …

Sweden and France are both countries that are presented as modern and tolerant. France
claims to have invented human rights and feminism. In Sweden, feminism is part of the …

This paper examines the role of nationalism in Polish soccer fans' protests in resistance to
LGBTQ+ equal rights. Drawing on data from semistructured interviews with 22 nationalist …

Since the nation remains the primary identity around which lives are organised in
contemporary times, a study of how gender matters in world politics is incomplete without a …