In Sickness and in Health: Mediating Nations, States, and Citizens

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

Postmodern governance might be described as the realization that nations are necessarily paradoxical. The current juncture between the related modernist projects of nation building and independence and those postmodern structures of globalization and mobile capital (both cultural and economic) coexist and coalesce, we would argue, through the mediation of nations, states, and citizens. Our panel takes up this idea of mediation in its exploration of the salutary and enervating aspects of the national project.

Sub Unit

• Critical and Cultural Studies Division

Participant

• Steven Bailey, York University

• Donovan S Conley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside

Respondent

• M Lane Bruner, Georgia State University