Key research themes
1. How does nationalism construct and enforce gender roles to shape national identity and political legitimacy?
This research area examines the ways in which nationalism employs gendered symbolism, norms, and roles to build and reproduce national identity. It focuses on the cultural construction of gender within nationalist discourse, the instrumentalization of women as symbols of the nation, and the implications of sexual regulation for political and social inclusion. Understanding these processes is crucial for revealing how nationalism perpetuates power dynamics and exclusion through gender.
2. What roles do women play in nationalist movements and how do diaspora contexts shape gendered nationalisms?
This research area explores women's active and often conflicting participation in nationalist movements, focusing especially on diasporic conditions where women negotiate between homeland nationalist projects and feminist transnational agendas. It investigates how gendered power dynamics manifest within nationalist organizations, how women challenge or reinforce nationalist ideologies, and the political implications of diaspora organizing for nation-building and gender justice.
3. How do emotional, cognitive, and organizational dynamics ground the resilience and adaptability of nationalism in modern societies?
This domain investigates the socio-psychological and structural mechanisms that sustain nationalism as a powerful and enduring form of collective identity in the modern era. It explores theoretical debates on nationalism’s roots, differentiating emotional attachments, cognitive cultural narratives, and interests-driven state-building, and examines empirical cases illustrating how nationalism adapts, institutionalizes, and pervades everyday life and political organization.