S3 E1 Of Kings, Songs and Migrants

Benson, Michaela and Benson, Michaela and Sigona, Nando and Zambelli, Elena and Clancy, Laura (2023) S3 E1 Of Kings, Songs and Migrants. Who do we think we are? Present Global Britain.

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Abstract

What does Eurovision have to do with the Coronation? We’re talking about what we learn about ‘Global Britain’ and its imagined community from looking at how migrants understand major cultural events. Elena Zambelli explains what social scientists mean when they talk about the imagined community. Laura Clancy, sociologist of the royal family, joins us to talk about the missing voices in conversations about the future of the British monarchy. Co-hosts Nando Sigona and Michaela Benson reflect on what British citizens living abroad, EU citizens and others who have made the UK their homes told them about how they understand Britain and their place within it following Brexit. And consider what hearing from them about the monarchy, the Commonwealth Games and Eurovision makes visible about the new borders of political membership and symbolic boundaries of belonging.