Kyriazi, AnnaVom Hau, Matthias2021-02-252021-02-252020Kyriazi A, Vom Hau M. Textbooks, postcards, and the public consolidation of nationalism in Latin America. Qualitative Sociology. 2020;43:515-42. DOI: 10.1007/s11133-020-09467-80162-0436http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46590Includes supplementary material for the online appendix: Textbooks used in content analysisThe existing macro-historical scholarship tends to assert rather than demonstrate the wider impact of nationalism. Yet, state-sponsored national ideologies permeate the broader reaches of society to varying degrees. To investigate variations in the consolidation of official nationalism, this paper combines the content analysis of school textbooks as state-regulated and picture postcards as primarily market-driven sources. Building on this novel methodological approach, we find that textbooks published in mid-twentieth-century Argentina, Mexico, and Peru promoted a similar popular nationalism that portrayed the lower classes as “true” national subjects. However, picture postcards from the same period demonstrate that the consolidation of this official national ideology varied. In Mexico and Peru, the new state-sponsored conceptions of nationhood gained presence in public life, but they did not to take hold in Argentina. We conclude that studying the top-down nationalist messages promoted by states should not be equated with studying their ideological impact in public life.application/pdfengThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11133-020-09467-8NationalismIdeologyVisual analysisEducationLatin Americainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess