In the early twenty-firstcentury, 'Englishness' suddenly became a hot
topic. A rash of art exhibitions,pop albums and coffee table books
arrived on the scene, all desperate to recoverEngland's lost national
soul. But when we sweep away the patriotic stereotypes, we begin to
seethat England is a country that does not - and perhaps should not -
exist in anyessential sense.In this provocative text combining polemic
and memoir, Alex Nivenargues that the map of the British Isles should be
torn apart completely as welook towards a time of radical political
reform.
Rejecting outdatednationalisms, Niven argues for a
renovated model of culture and governance forthe islands - a fluid,
dynamic version of regionalism preparing the way for anew 'dream
archipelago'.
New Model Island : How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England - Alex Niven
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