Contextualizing history: the origin of the invention of national symbols

National symbols play important socio-political roles in modern nation-states and are deeply embedded in struggles for state power. The main objective of this work is to present a description of the historical context involving the invention of national symbols. The theoretical perspective adopted i...

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Autor: Souza, Anderson Alves de
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2018
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
Repositório:Letras (Santa Maria. Online)
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/31351
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.ufsm.br/letras/article/view/31351
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Ideology
Nationalism
National symbols
Ideologia
Nacionalismo
Símbolos nacionais
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Resumo:National symbols play important socio-political roles in modern nation-states and are deeply embedded in struggles for state power. The main objective of this work is to present a description of the historical context involving the invention of national symbols. The theoretical perspective adopted in this work is the one provided by the modernist paradigm (HOBSBAWM, 1989, 1992; SMITH, 1991). The study demonstrates that national symbols were created as an essential tool for the spread and development of the nationalist ideology and for making the masses of people establish a relation of identification with their nation-states.