@article{bf0b913c6b2d45029cc1fa53500d5db9,
title = "The Corporate Production of Nationalism",
abstract = "States, government officials, cultural elites, and ordinary citizens are typically the leading characters in academic treatises on nationalism—cast as the primary producers and consumers of nationalist ideology. Yet this conventional focus obscures the many corporate aspects of nationalism. Drawing from the literature on “commercial nationalism”, this article examines the corporate production of nationalism surrounding National Day holiday celebrations in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Pairing participant observation and textual analysis of advertising landscapes, I illustrate how domestic and foreign corporations are key actors in (re)producing nationalist discourse—and state power—in the Gulf states. By situating this comparative case study in the broader literature on commercial nationalism, I argue that Qatar and the UAE are in fact typical of how corporate actors around the world routinely reinforce scripts that essentialise the “nation” by drawing upon and, in effect, producing nationalism—and their own commercial interests.",
keywords = "Qatar, United Arab Emirates, commercial nationalism, nationalism, political geography",
author = "Natalie Koch",
note = "Funding Information: Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Gulf Studies Symposium at the American University of Kuwait, as well as the 13th Annual Northeast Middle East Politics Working Group Meeting in Hamilton College. I am grateful for feedback from discussants and participants at both events. Thanks also to Joe Stoll of the Syracuse Geography Department for his work in digitising the newspaper data. Research for this article was supported by a Social Sciences Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as grants from Syracuse University{\textquoteright}s Geography Department and the Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this material are those of the author and do not reflect the views of any granting organisation. All errors are my own. Funding Information: Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Gulf Studies Symposium at the American University of Kuwait, as well as the 13th Annual Northeast Middle East Politics Working Group Meeting in Hamilton College. I am grateful for feedback from discussants and participants at both events. Thanks also to Joe Stoll of the Syracuse Geography Department for his work in digitising the newspaper data. Research for this article was supported by a Social Sciences Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as grants from Syracuse University{\textquoteright}s Geography Department and the Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this material are those of the author and do not reflect the views of any granting organisation. All errors are my own. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 The Author. Antipode {\textcopyright} 2019 Antipode Foundation Ltd.",
year = "2020",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1111/anti.12588",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "52",
pages = "185--205",
journal = "Antipode",
issn = "0066-4812",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "1",
}