The 2014 Scottish independence referendum provided a sociologically opportune moment to study how nationalist narratives are constructed, expressed and experienced from below – or how nationalism is lived on the ground – as ‘the Scottish nation’ was widely discussed and debated. Drawing on 24 qualitative interviews, this article considers how ethnic and racialised minorities experienced and made sense of the nation on an everyday level around the time of the referendum. Consequently, this article argues that experiencing the everyday as routine, mundane or unremarkable is often a privilege; that focusing on those whose national belonging is not ‘beyond question’ is a revealing angle to take; and that during such hyper-nationalist contexts the nation merely becomes louder for ethnic and racialised minorities.

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当国家变得更响亮时：日常民族主义和 2014 年苏格兰独立公投

2014 年苏格兰独立公投为研究民族主义叙事如何自下而上构建、表达和体验——或者民族主义如何在实地生活——提供了社会学上的契机，因为“苏格兰民族”被广泛讨论和辩论。本文利用 24 项定性访谈，探讨了在公投期间，少数民族和种族化的少数群体如何在日常生活中体验和理解国家。因此，本文认为，将日常生活体验为例行公事、平凡或平凡通常是一种特权；关注那些民族归属感并非“无可置疑”的人是一个很有启发性的角度；并且在这种极端民族主义的背景下，民族只会对少数族裔和种族化的少数群体变得更加响亮。