we examine three categories of everyday practice during the COVID-19 pandemic
This analysis thus breaks with existing works on everyday nationalism and banal nationalism
Drawing on a range of cases including China , Russia , the UK , and USA , we examine three categories of everyday practice during the COVID-19 pandemic that respond to disruptions in daily routines and seek a return to national normality : performing national solidarities and exclusions by wearing face masks ; consuming the nation in the form of panic buying and conspiracy theories ; and enforcing foreign policies through social media and embodiment .
This analysis thus breaks with existing works on everyday nationalism and banal nationalism that typically focus on pervasively unnoticed forms of nationalism during settled times , and it challenges approaches to contentious politics that predict protest mobilization for change rather than restoration of the status quo ante .