Undefeated nationalism: extending the banal nationalism thesis through the family
(2023) ECPR General Conference — Location: Praga (4.September.2023)
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- This text explores how we analyse the data collected as part of the ETPAF project (Enquête sur la transmission précoce des appartenances au sein de la famille). ETPAF aims to understand how parents socialize their children to the nation from an early age1. The survey protocol consists of repeated interviews (3 sessions of 2 hours each2) with families with a or 6-year old child (Delmotte and Duchesne, to be published; Duchesne, 2023; Duchesne and Ferry, 2021). The fieldwork is now complete, with 29 sets of three interviews currently being transcribed. The fieldwork seems to have been rather successful, in the sense that we managed to survey families with relatively diverse sociological and political profiles3. But the true success of a system is measured by the heuristic nature of the information gathered. That's what we want to assess here. Does the data collected actually correspond to what we wanted to research? This question arises for most qualitative projects. Here, it is all the more so, given that our research object – banal nationalism – raises particular empirical difficulties (Fox et al., 2018). To assess the heuristic character of the data collected, we must therefore begin by recalling what we wanted to achieve with ETPAF (1), which we will do in the first section. After that (2), we'll show how we constructed the case of a first family, that of Jeanne, met in January 2022, in order to analyse our data and before doing so for the other families interviewed before and after. First, we will present this family (2A), its history and characteristics; then (2B) we will attempt to characterize the nationalism of Jeanne's family on the basis of interviews with her parents.
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Delmotte, F., Duchesne, S., & et al. (2023). Undefeated nationalism: extending the banal nationalism thesis through the family. ECPR General Conference, Praga. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/26293