Hizky Shoham, "meaningless rituals of mechanical solidarity"

“Our way of life”: The meaningless rituals of mechanical solidarity

Part of Panel 2: Nationhood between everyday life and ecstatic moments

The Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Conference on Theorizing National Solidarity: Mechanisms, Models and Paradoxes.
May 23-24, 2022, Sde Boker Campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev


Initiated by the Bar Ilan Center for Cultural Sociology, the international working group on national solidarity aims to explore how the concept of solidarity contributes to our understanding of nationhood (and related forms of civic and ethnic belonging) compared with the overworked concept of national identity.

This workshop brought together leading scholars employing diverse quantitative and qualitative approaches to discuss work-in-progress and enhance further networking.