Water, earth, fire, air: Banal nationalism and Avatar: The Last Airbender

IF 1.9 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

European Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-28 DOI:10.1177/13675494231206385

William Kerr

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Abstract

This article argues that children’s media can be a powerful source for embedding nationalist assumptions from an early age, by looking at Avatar: The Last Airbender and its sequel The Legend of Korra. In the shows, the world is divided into four discrete nations. Drawing on Billig’s concept of banal nationalism, I intend to explore how, despite being critical of nationalism, they nevertheless reinforce and communicate core tenets of national ideology: that nations are the natural way of organising the world. This then leads to wider conclusions about how children’s media can communicate and embed these ideas.

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水，土，火，气:平庸的民族主义和阿凡达:最后的气宗

本文以《阿凡达:最后的气宗》及其续集《科拉传说》为例，认为儿童媒体可以成为从小就嵌入民族主义假设的强大来源。在节目中，世界被分为四个独立的国家。借鉴比利格关于平庸民族主义的概念，我打算探讨，尽管对民族主义持批评态度，但他们如何强化和传达民族意识形态的核心原则:民族是组织世界的自然方式。这就引出了关于儿童媒体如何传播和嵌入这些想法的更广泛的结论。

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European Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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5.50

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4.20%

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期刊介绍： European Journal of Cultural Studies is a major international, peer-reviewed journal founded in Europe and edited from Finland, the Netherlands, the UK, the United States and New Zealand. The journal promotes a conception of cultural studies rooted in lived experience. It adopts a broad-ranging view of cultural studies, charting new questions and new research, and mapping the transformation of cultural studies in the years to come. The journal publishes well theorized empirically grounded work from a variety of locations and disciplinary backgrounds. It engages in critical discussions on power relations concerning gender, class, sexual preference, ethnicity and other macro or micro sites of political struggle.