From world citizenship to purified patriotism: Obama’s nation-shaping in a global era

This analysis responds to two questions in recent scholarship. The first is Ulrich Beck’s call for scholars to empirically explore how nationhood is evolving in a global context – whether and how nation-states are being cosmopolitanised. The second concerns normative debates regarding what form belonging should take in a global era – patriotic attachments or cosmopolitan ones. The rhetoric of Barack Obama provides empirical fodder for both explorations. As a leader who proclaimed and was widely noted for his cosmopolitan sensibilities, yet ultimately relied heavily on themes of patriotism and American exceptionalism, Obama’s case confirms that nationhood remains a potent form of collectivity in the contemporary era; suggests that although the conditions of globalisation may be facilitative ones with regard to cosmopolitanisation, they are not sufficient ones; and calls into question Martha Nussbaum’s recent claim that if ‘purified’, patriotism lends itself to a ‘striving for global justice and inclusive human love’.     

爱国主义和民族主义对中国消费者国货意识影响的研究

以消费者行为理论中的消费者民族中心主义研究为理论基础,对其本土化变量"国货意识"的前因变量进行了实证研究。通过问卷法共回收有效问卷886份,并利用SPSS软件进行统计分析。分析结果显示:在中国环境下,消费者的爱国主义和民族主义均与基于自豪感的国货意识正向相关,民族主义与基于危机感的国货意识正向相关。最后,对研究结果进行了讨论,并指出了其理论贡献、实际应用、存在的局限性和今后继续研究的方向。