ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 will discuss how, for many of these relatively affluent participants, the individualism and sense of mobility discussed in the previous chapter feeds into more cosmopolitan (or, as the chapter terms it, nationsceptic) political outlooks through which the normalised relationships between nation, state and society posited by nationalism are destabilised. However, the general political outlooks of these participants are found to be barely less parochial than those of nationalists. They thus express an effectively nationalist form of politics absent of a clear sense of nationhood – that is, their political concerns are localised to this state, but there is little sense of national community or identity associated with it.
