Identity_and_Nation_Building_FM_2pp.indd Page i 19/05/17 3:12 AM This book explores the function of the ‘everyday’ in the formation, consolidation and performance of national, sub-national and local identities in the former socialist region. Based on extensive original research including ieldwork, the book demonstrates how the study of everyday and mundane practices is a meaningful and useful way of understanding the socio-political processes of identity formation both at the top and bottom level of a state. The book covers a wide range of countries including the Baltic States, Ukraine, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and considers ‘everyday’ banal prac- tices, including those related to consumption, kinship, embodiment, mobil- ity, music, and the use of objects and artefacts. Overall, the book draws on, and contributes to, theory; and shows how the process of nation building is not just undertaken by formal actors, such as the state, its institutions and political elites. Abel Polese is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Governance, Law and Society of Tallinn University, Estonia, and the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University, Ireland. Jeremy Morris is an associate professor in Global Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. Oleksandra Seliverstova is a Marie Curie Fellow at the School of Governance, Law and Society of Tallinn University, Estonia. Emilia Pawłusz is an early stage researcher in the School of Governance, Law and Society at Tallinn University, Estonia. Identity and Nation Building in Everyday Post-Socialist Life