@deniztk
Historical Social Scientist Nationalism and mind | Socialization, enculturation, and education PhD from Princeton | Researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient | Lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin #slowscience https://thenationalmind.org
📘 The National Mind is the first step in a long-term research project on how nationalism shapes the human mind and culture.
🧠 My current focus: how 'national' education systems produce and sustain national ways of thinking.
thenationalmind.org
Read the full post here 👉 palgrave.com/gp/blogs/soc...
And check out The National Mind—a new take on how we inherit, internalize, and reproduce national thinking.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Drawing on history, philosophy, sociology, and cognitive science, The National Mind reveals how nationalism becomes a deeply embedded way of thinking and feeling—not just a political stance.
This perspective helps explain today’s global surge in nationalism and populist politics
The National Mind asks:
How does nationalism shape our sense of self and the world?
Why does it feel so natural?
And can we unthink it—without dismissing it?
When a particular knowledge system becomes ‘common sense,’ it leaves little room for alternatives.
It’s cognitively efficient. Emotionally satisfying. Socially convenient.
That’s how nationalism becomes not just a belief, but a mindset.
What feels like common sense is often just ideology we’ve internalized.
In my new blog post for Palgrave Macmillan's Social Science Matters, I reflect on how nationalism shapes not just politics—but how we think, feel, and act.
🧠🧵 A thread on The National Mind:
🔗 www.palgrave.com/gp/blogs/soc...
“I [...] bought my first and only pair of two-inch-heeled shoes, black French ones, to wear [at an academic symposium], but I never dared put them on; there were so many Big Guns shooting at one another that it seemed unwise to try to increase my stature.” (Ursula Le Guin, 1979)