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Volume 13, Issue 1
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Abstract

(‘Spaniards in the world’) is a long-standing programme of Spain’s television channel TVE1 (‘La 1’) that constructs contemporary Spanish identity in the registers of nationalism and cosmopolitanism as well as socio-economic class. The programme assumes the form of soft-focus journalism that is upbeat and apolitical. Episodes revolve around presenters visiting Spaniards who have settled in other countries to document their everyday lives. The analysis focuses on twelve episodes and presents evidence of a nationalist message of efficacious Spaniards fanning out into the world and prospering, personally and professionally, as their talents enable them to successfully integrate themselves as travellers abroad (‘all the world has enjoyed Spaniards’, one informant claims). At the same time, within the programme’s gaze, nationalism is synergized by cosmopolitanism. The programme affirms (and even banalizes) cultural cosmopolitanism as engages respectfully with other cultures – aside from some Orientalist moments discussed in the analysis. Whatever the merits of in its openness to cultural cosmopolitanism and its affirmations of Spain’s post-Franco generations’ stepped-up engagement with other nations, the programme is also silent on the implications of the informants’ predominantly professional, middle-class status as the ticket into the world.

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The home and the world: Nationalism, cosmopolitanism and class in Españoles en el Mundo
Journal of European Popular Culture 13, 41 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1386/jepc_00040_1
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Keyword(s): class; cosmopolitanism; Españoles en el mundo (‘Spaniards in the world’); nationalism; Spain; Spanish television

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