The XXXth Annual ASEN Conference
Nationalism & Crisis

🙜 Abstracts

Panel Session A

A1: Populism of the left and populism of the right

From Exclusion to Establishment: Researching Party Organisation in Scandinavian Populist Parties
Mr Johan Andersen
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The South African Crisis and the Rise of the Economic Freedom Fighters
Prof Christi van der Westhuizen
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A crisis of insecurity? Perspectives from left and right populists in France
Miss Donatella Bonansinga
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Who Survives the next Crisis? Disunity in Poland’s United Right Government
Dr Marcin ƚlarzyƄski and Melisse Laebens
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A2: Operationalising and measuring nationalism

Qualifying National Identity: a Country Level Indicator of Competitiveness
Vladimir Magun and Marharyta Fabrykant
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Surveying nationalism: How is nationalism treated in current databases?
Mr Javier Carbonell
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Tackling the crisis of operationalisation: Presenting new measurement instruments for both nationalism and patriotism
Miss Marlene Mußotter
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Is my nation cool enough? Nationalism under Economic Adversity
Dr Maria Jose Hierro
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A3: Diaspora nationalism and imagined communities

Crisis in the Homeland, Mobilization in Diaspora: Assyrians in North America, 2014-2016
Dr Erin Hughes
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The imagined community of nationalityless students in Thailand: Locating the place of nationalism in the public school curriculum
Miss Methawadee Behnjharachajarunandha
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Coming to America & Going back to Africa: How HBCUs shaped Pan-African identity
Mr Mark Lewin
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A4: How states manage the response to covid

The decentralisation sweet spot: balancing accountability and local capacity in Covid-19 Crisis Management
Katya Broomberg and Sarmed Hyder
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Understanding Anxiety through Pandemics: How Small States Fail to Manage (In)Secure and Resilient Identities in Cyprus and Estonia during COVID-19
Mr Petros Petrikkos (withdrawn)
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Covid-19 as a crisis impacting nations and nationalism
Ms Olivia Joseph-Aluko
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A5: Nationalism and crisis in central and southern Europe

Cultural conflict in Poland. Society between state, nationalism and religion: the case of Poland’s 2020 protests against abortion
Dr Anna JagieƂƂo-Szostak
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From Dayton to Bernese Jura: The Election of the Croat Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mr Ivan Pepic
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Gendering Parliamentary Questions: National Consensus and Transitional Justice in Croatia
Dr Denisa Kostovicova and Dr Vesna Popovski
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Serbian State Identity after Yugoslavia: Caught Between Geopolitics and Liberal Promises
Dr Dejan Guzina
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Panel Session B

B1: Conflict, crisis, and the nation

Bankruptcy in Leadership: an analysis of the SPLM/A on-going conflict in South Sudan
Dr Seife Kidane
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Rights over natural resources in conflict areas: the role of NGO’s in the case of Western Sahara
Dr Raquel Ojeda-García and Dr Ángela Suårez Collado
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The Covid-19 Crisis as Boosting Factor for Hostilities Break out in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020
Ms Tereza Souskova
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B2: The discourse of responses to crisis

Fighting covid: the end of the Portuguese “miracle”
Dr Silvia Frota
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A discourse analytical perspective on the emergence of a new right-wing Romanian party, AUR
Dr Brindusa Nicolaescu (withdrawn)
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“You-topia”, “We-topia” and COVID-19 Crisis: A Postcolonial Study of National Belonging in South Asia
Ms Sumera Saleem
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B3: Making the case for liberal democracy

Mobilizing for Democracy Again: Rising New Political Activism in East Asia
Dr Chungse Jung
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In Defense of Liberal Democracy: Who Protests against Populists and Why?
Ms Courtney Blackington
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The response of the pro-choice Women’s Strike and the extreme right National Guard to Poland’s constitutional tribunal judgment restricting women’s right to legal abortion
Dr Marcin PieluĆŒek (withdrawn)
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Panel Session C

C1: Responses to crisis in contested territories

Coming together or staying apart: implications of Covid-19 pandemic politics for future negotiations in Cyprus
Ms Samantha Twietmeyer
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The Yellow Vests movement: the Corsican nationalism approach
Ms Ornella Graziani
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(Dis)Union in times of crisis – (re)framing arguments for Scottish independence
Miss Maike Dinger
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C2: Theoretical perspectives on nationalism

The Mind of the Nation: Korean Nationalism, Integrated Information and Complexity Theory
Mr Joseph Beaden
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Whose Nation? Class Politics and Limits of the Modernist Approach to Nationalism
Dr Nicola Degli Esposti
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Turkish State’s Response to COVID-19: A Reading From The Risk Society Theory
Dr Zehra Zeynep Sadıkoğlu
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Ethno-symbolism and Annales School’s longue durĂ©e analysis
Mr Reda Mahajar (withdrawn)
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C3: Radical responses to crisis

Fighting for the Homeland: How and Why Do Israeli-Americans Volunteer in the Israeli Military?
Mr Lior Yohanani
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The failed coup attempt of 15 July and the reconstruction of Turkish nationhood
Dr Suna G. Aydemir and Dr Philipp Decker
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Sins of the Fathers: The dusk of Golden Dawn and the rise (?) of a new radicalism
Dr Georgios Karakasis
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C4: Nationalism, inclusion, and exclusion

“Not quite White, not quite European – not Polish sons and daughters of the soil”.
Dr Bolaji Balogun
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Xenophobic tendencies amidst COVID 19 : An inter-jurisdcitonal analysis
Indrasish Majumder
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Reading homonationalism as a symptom of a crisis in Singaporean activism: a case study of Pink Dot
Mr Pavan Mano (withdrawn)
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C5: Crisis and the system of nations

Nationalism, Globalisation and the Pandemic
Dr Sam Pryke
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Nationalism and the Climate
Dr William Kerr
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Bridging International Relations and Nationalism Studies through Historical Sociology
Dr Zelal Ozdemir
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Panel Session D

D1: Nationalisms in the United Kingdom

“I’m not sure what Englishness is anymore to be honest”: An exploration of English Identity, Britain and Nationalism
Ms Tabitha A. Baker
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Is Brexit a national crisis? Worries among British expatriates prior to and in the aftermath of the EU referendum
Dr Fathi Bourmeche
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Speaking for the Union: Unionist Narratives in the Time of Brexit
Dr Daniel CetrĂ 
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D2: Construction and representation of identities in China

Due to withdrawals, this panel has been cancelled. Mr Alex Chelegeer will present in panel D4.

The representations of Mongolian history in China
Mr Alex Chelegeer
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How Local Decentralization Contributes to Nation-State Building: Rethinking Ethnic Local Autonomy in Post-1949 China
Dr Chao-yo Cheng (withdrawn)
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Searching for Roots: Construction of Sibe Ethnic Identity after 1949
Dr Runrun He (wuthdrawn)
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D3: Populism in South Asia

Religious Polarization and the creation of a new National Identity in Hindu India
Mr Adnaan Naveet
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Women Warriors of the Hindu Nation: Discursive Frames, Driving Strategies
Miss Anshu Saluja
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Populism in Pakistan: From Left to Right
Ms Fizza Batool
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D4: Memory, culture, and the performance of identity

Mapping the Nation: Street Names and Iranian identity
Mr Ehsan Kashfi (withdrawn)
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National Crisis in Preserving Modern Architectural Buildings in Bangladesh
Miss Mohona Reza
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Memory, Crisis, Citizenship: Canadian Moroccan Jewish Narratives on Québec
Ms Ovgu Ulgen
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Contingent and occasional. The genesis and patterns of articulation of performative nationalism of football fans
Dr Mateusz Grodecki
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The representations of Mongolian history in China
Mr Alex Chelegeer
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D5: Levels of belonging

A crosscutting cleavage? Investigating the associations between popular nationalism and political attitudes across sub-state nations
Mr James Griffiths
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National Identity and European Solidarity: Unpacking the Role of Perceived Ethno-National Proximity
Dr Simona Guglielmi
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EU Influence, Identity Politics, and Ceiling Effects in Nationalist Voting: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
Mr Roman Hlatky
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Testing the national identity argument in a time of crisis – Evidence from Israel
Dr Gal Ariely
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D6: State responses to Covid

The Anti-Westernism in Turkey’s Covid-19 Response under AKP Rule
Dr Caglar Ezikoglu
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Crisis and (neo)colonialism in ‘post-colonial’ South Asia
Mr Idreas Khandy
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Pandemic Nationalism in North Korea: the impact of COVID-19 and Juche ideology
Miss Rita DurĂŁo
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Panel Session E

E1: Digital nationalism

Digital indigenism and cyberactivism in the time of Covid-19. The case study of Indigenous Solidarity Ottawa.
Dr Izabela Nawrot-Adamczyk
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Localising nationalism in the crisis: online teaching during Covid-19 lockdown in a Chinese high school
Miss Can Tao
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COVID-19 and Sinophobia: Discource of Hate on the Instagram Social Network
Mr Nikolay Ternov and Dmitry Mikhailov
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Rational Student Nationalism in Virtual Society
Ms Peitong Jing (withdrawn)
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E2: Popular reactions to covid

COVID-19 Crisis: Changes in National Identity?
Ms Marija Sniečkutė (withdrawn)
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Language of Covid-19 provokes ‘clusters’ of nationalism: Japanese debates over English-derived loanwords at the time of crisis
Dr Naoko Hosokawa
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(Civic) Nationalism as Competence-in-Crisis: the case of Taiwan’s surgical mask logistics and rationing programs in battling the coronavirus
Prof Dr Huey-Rong Chen
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E3: Nationalism and identity in Hong Kong

Hong Kong of the World: the Internationalism of Nationalism
Mr Justin Chun-ting Ho
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Incidental and Purposeful Nationalism in Hong Kong
Milan Ismangil and Florian Schneider
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Negotiating identity among young South Asian ethnic minorities against the backdrop of the 2019 political crisis in Hong Kong
Mr Keenan Daniel Manning, Zheng Zhou, and Divya Padmanabhan
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More Than Bread and Butter – Explaining the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Hong Kong and Baltic States
Mr Siyang Liu
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E4: The discourse of leadership

Battling to dominate the discursive terrain: How Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have framed terrorist incidents in France.
Mr Miltos Rizakis
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Official discourses of mega-events in Kyrgyzstan during Akaev’s presidency (1991-2005) and power legitimation
Ms Arzuu Sheranova
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Nationalist discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey in political speeches of R. T. Erdogan
Miss Karolína Lahučká
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E5: Citizenship, borders, and crisis

‘Waiting out a crisis’: Unpacking the ‘crisis’ of the Registry test of Citizenship in Assam.
Ms Debasreeta Deb
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Cold War Compatriots: Ethnic Nationhood after Border Crossings
Dr Phi Su
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“Permanent crisis and liminality” of Palestinian nationalism. Paradoxical Palestinian material practices between creativity and unsettlement
Dr Magdalena Pycinska
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Panel Session F

F1: Independence movements in North America and Europe

Crisis in questioned nations: Language, identity and the Right in the struggle for the social and political hegemony of Navarre and the Valencian Country
Mr Giovanni Pelegi-Torres
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An Empirical Analysis of the Variance in the Left-Right Ideology of National Independence Parties in Canada and Western Europe.
Mr Adam Stokes
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Situations Can Make You a Secessionist. An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Support for Secession in Catalonia, 1991-2019
Dr RaĂŒl Tormos
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F2: The discourses of responses to Covid

“Best in Covid”: Pandemic and banal nationalism in the rhetoric of the Czech PM Andrej Babiơ (2020-2021).
Dr Pƙemysl RosƯlek
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COVID-19 crisis as nativistÂŽ politics accelerator in Central Europe?
Mr Ladislav Cabada
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Vaccine Nationalism and Public Responsibility: A Discursive Analysis of Taking Credit and Apportioning Blame during the UK’s Third Wave
Mr Louis Strange
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F3: Illiberal responses to crisis in the USA

Dominant Publics and Violence in the Time of COVID.
Miss Caitlin Graziani
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Ethnonationalism and White immigration attitudes
Mr Jack Thompson
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The Tower of Babel in America: Anti-scientific agendas, alternative facts, and their implications for national security in the United States
Ms Kimberly Consroe
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‘Any nation so conceived: Did America’s civil war mark the beginning of the end of liberal democracy in the United States?’
Prof Susan-Mary Grant
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F4: Historical antecedents of national identity

Nation and Mother Tongue in Crisis. The Discourse about the Decline of National Character in Late 18th–Early 19th Century Hungary
Dr Henrik HƑnich
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Pre-modern Hungarian national identity in crisis: the Bocskai uprising and national unity (1604–1606)
Mr Låszló Kövecses
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Juxtaposing the “National Crisis” and the “New Better World”: The Kosovo Myth of Slobodan Milosevic between ethno-nationalism and socialist Yugoslavism
Dr Matvey Lomonosov
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The Zionist Consciousness and the Hebrew Bible: A Cultural Dimension of Jewish Nationalism
Dr Yitzhak Conforti
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F5: The politics of citizenship

The Politics of Crisis: Immigration, Nationalism, and Racialized Citizenship in the United States
Ms Emma-Claire LaSaine (withdrawn)
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The quest for international mobility through ancestry: a comparative analysis of citizenship application procedures in Schengen countries by persons from the Global South and from a post-Brexit United Kingdom
Prof Dr Melissa Martins Casagrande
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Citizenship and Legal Identity in Post-Soviet De Facto States
Mr Ramesh Ganohariti
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