Constructing And Deconstructing National Identity

Author : Birgit Ryschka
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631581117
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing and Deconstructing National Identity written by Birgit Ryschka and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Limerick, Ireland, 2007.

Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966460073
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grain of Wheat written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ted Hopf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190255498
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Identity Count written by Ted Hopf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructivism, despite being one of the three main streams of IR theory, along with realism and liberalism, is rarely, if ever, tested in large-n quantitative work. Constructivists almost unanimously eschew quantitative approaches, assuming that variables of interest to constructivists, defy quantification. Quantitative scholars mostly ignore constructivist variables as too fuzzy and vague. And the rare instances in which quantitative scholars have operationalized identity as a variable, they have unfortunately realized all the constructivists' worst fears about reducing national identity to a single measure, such as language, religion, or ethnicity, thereby violating one of the foundational assumptions of constructivism: intersubjectivity. Making Identity Count presents a new method for the recovery of national identity, applies the method in 9 country cases, and draws conclusions from the empirical evidence for hegemonic transitions and a variety of quantitative theories of identity. Ted Hopf and Bentley B. Allan make the constructivist variable of national identity a valid measure that can be used by large-n International Relations scholars in a variety of ways. They lay out what is wrong with how identity has been conceptualized, operationalized and measured in quantitative IR so far and specify a methodological approach that allows scholars to recover the predominant national identities of states in a more valid and systematic fashion. The book includes "national identity reports" on China, the US, UK, Germany, France, Brazil, Japan, and India to both test the authors' method and demonstrate the promise of the approach. Hopf and Allan use these data to test a constructivist hypothesis about the future of Western neoliberal democratic hegemony. Finally, the book concludes with an assessment of the method, including areas of possible improvement, as well as a description of what an intersubjective national identity data base of great powers from 1810-2010 could mean for IR scholarship.

Author : Mariana Ortega
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438428553
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing the Nation written by Mariana Ortega and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-10-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What does it mean today to be an 'American' when one does not represent or embody the norm of 'Americanness' because of one's race, ethnicity, culture of origin, religion, or some combination of these? What is the norm of 'Americanness' today, how has it changed, and how pluralistic is it in reality?" — from the Introduction In this volume philosophers and social theorists of color take up these questions, offering nuanced critiques of race and nationalism in the post-9/11 United States focused around the themes of freedom, unity, and homeland. In particular, the contributors examine how normative concepts of American identity and unity come to be defined and defended along increasingly racialized lines in the face of national trauma, and how nonnormative Americans experience the mistrust that their identities and backgrounds engender in this way. The volume takes an important step in recognizing and challenging the unreflective notions of nationalism that emerge in times of crisis.

Author : Zakir Hossain Raju
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317601807
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity written by Zakir Hossain Raju and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, cinema has been adopted as a popular cultural institution in Bangladesh. At the same time, this has been the period for the articulation of modern nationhood and cultural identity of Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh. This book analyses the relationship between cinema and modernity in Bangladesh, providing a narrative of the uneven process that produced the idea of "Bangladesh cinema." This book investigates the roles of a non-Western "national" film industry in Asia in constructing nationhood and identity within colonial and postcolonial predicaments. Drawing on the idea of cinema as public sphere and the postcolonial notion of formation of the "Bangladesh" nation, interactions between cinema and middle-class Bengali Muslims in different social and political matrices are analyzed. The author explores how the conflict among different social groups turned Bangladesh cinema into a site of contesting identities. In particular, he illustrates the connections between film production and reception in Bangladesh and a variety of nationalist constructions of Bengali Muslim identity. Questioning and debunking the usual notions of "Bangladesh" and "cinema," this book positions the cinema of Bangladesh within a transnational frame. Starting with how to locate the "beginning" of the second Bengali language cinema in colonial Bengal, the author completes the investigation by identifying a global Bangladeshi cinema in the early twenty-first century. The first major academic study on this large and vibrant national cinema, this book demonstrates that Bangladesh cinema worked as different "public spheres" for different "publics" throughout the twentieth century and beyond. Filling a niche in Global Film and Media Studies and South Asian Studies, it will be of interest to scholars and students of these disciplines.

Author : Katrin Kullasepp
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030622673
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity at the Borders and Between the Borders written by Katrin Kullasepp and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the general framework of Cultural Psychology, this book provides different perspectives on the relationship between border and identity by experts from several disciplines (i.e. history, psychology, geography etc.). The book offers an “in- depth” comprehension of the intricacy of the border making process and how this affect the identity formation from a psychological, social and cultural point of views. The book takes a close look to some European countries as specimens to investigate the complex link between creation of national/ethnic identity and bordering process that evoke the more general question of the I-OTHER relation. This book provides an integrated insight into the complex phenomenon of borders and identity. The process of making and negotiating border and the identity formation on the border is analyzed as psychological, social, historical, and cultural phenomena. This Brief will be of interest to researchers and students as well as diplomats and administrative policy makers within the fields of political science, psychology, cultural psychology, and sociology.

Author : Coire T. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781530335848
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Psychosis written by Coire T. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be an American? The Essay is divided into three distinct sections, each building on the latter, the first is a rudimentary but necessary examination of American History focusing specifically on two supposedly quintessential aspects of American History: American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny. The core pages then attempt to unravel the source and nature of American National Identity by deconstructing the prior examination of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny and through that deconstruction exposing America's innate cultural dissonance. The final section deals with the contemporary conflicts between American National Identity and the processes of Globalization, and how these conflicts further exasperate America's innate Cultural Dissonance.

Author : Jari Kupiainen
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126903740
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Identity in Transition written by Jari Kupiainen and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2004 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Identity In Transition Analyses The Challenges That Globalisation And Modernisation Have Brought To Cultural Identity In Recent Years. This Collection Of Articles Highlights Some Of The Central Theoretical Ideas And Models Currently Used In The Analysis Of Cultural Identity In The Social And Cultural Sciences.While The Book S Main Regional Focus Is On Northern Europe, This Is Complemented By Several Case Studies Addressing Issues Of Cultural Identity In Indigenous And Ethnic Communities, In Literary And Artistic Expression, And In Terms Of National Politics Around The World.The Book Discusses In Detail The Questions Like : What Is At Stake In The Global Culture Industry In Terms Of Cultural Identity? How Do The Internet And Information Technology In General Empower Local Communities? What Kinds Of Political Struggles And Conflicts Can Be Associated With The Processes Of Cultural Identity? Cultural Identities Are In Transition, But In What Direction Are They Moving?Cultural Identity In Transition Will Be Essential Reading For University Students And Researchers In Sociology, Anthropology, And Cultural And Literary Studies.

Author : Noora Kotilainen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443856134
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regime Changes in 20th Century Europe written by Noora Kotilainen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In retrospect, historical change often appears to be both logical and inevitable. Yet, as a process, as a series of moments, it is by nature open-ended. The protagonists are unaware of the potential consequences of their choices, as well as the meaning of their actions in the greater scheme of things. An individual, in real time and in the middle of events, has little scope for understanding the whole. The dynamic of a regime change involves a journey away from a particular past towards a chosen future, while the practices of the old regime are called into question. The competing visions for a better future often include a reactionary option, looking back towards an older period, perceived as a golden age waiting to be restored. In the aftermath of a regime change the new cadres, seeking to consolidate their power, form the new conservative bloc of the society. When revolutionary forces again begin to gather, the regime disintegrates, and the cycle begins again. So far, regime changes have been analysed as unique, one-off events. This book traces what such processes, regardless of their ideological colour, have in common. How does political power change hands? What are the mental and material tools of change? From the last stages of World War I to the present Crimean crisis, the case studies in this book offer timeless insights for understanding ideological and military conflicts, including the undercurrents of the present Russo-Western relations.

Author : Jonathan Friedman
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1848609124
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Identity and Global Process written by Jonathan Friedman and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1994-10-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book explores the interface between global processes, identity formation and the production of culture. Examining ideas ranging from world systems theory to postmodernism, Jonathan Friedman investigates the relations between the global and the local, to show how cultural fragmentation and modernist homogenization are equally constitutive trends of global reality. With examples taken from a rich variety of theoretical sources, ethnographic accounts of historical eras, the analysis ranges across the cultural formations of ancient Greece, contemporary processes of Hawaiian cultural identification and Congolese beauty cults. Throughout, the author examines the interdependency of world market and local cultural transformations, and demonstrates the complex interrelations between globally structured social processes and the organization of identity. Jonathan Friedman also documents the development and significance of a global perspective in an anthropology that illuminates a wide variety of domains from prehistory to world hegemony. In so doing, he interrogates the emergence of the concept of culture and suggests that anthropology itself is best understood within the trajectory of modernity.