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Investigates the concept of 'national identity' based on twenty years of empirical evidence.
Author : David McCrone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107100380
Investigates the concept of 'national identity' based on twenty years of empirical evidence.
Author : Matthew D'Auria
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1107128099
Casts new light on of the 'official' French nineteenth-century narrative by examining how historians and philosophers conceived of the country's past.
Author : Jennifer Dickey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1442276800
Museums reflect a nation's character, as well as define it. Museums around the world have been shaped by globalization, and in turn have shaped a global public's understanding of local, regional, or national identity. Essayists consider the politics of museum interpretation in the global context, issues of cultural patrimony and heritage tourism, the risks of crossing boundaries and borders to present controversial subjects, and strategies for engaging audiences and communities. International case studies from Germany, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, South Africa, Niger, and Vietnam underscore the common motives and sensibilities, as well as the challenges, of the world's museums in their efforts to educate and inspire.
Author : Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107166306
A comparative study of how and why people identify with their countries and the implications for foreign policy.
Author : Katrina Z. S. Schwartz
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2006-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0822973146
In this groundbreaking book, Katrina Schwartz examines the intersection of environmental politics, globalization, and national identity in a small East European country: modern-day Latvia. Based on extensive ethnographic research and lively discourse analysis, it explores that country's post-Soviet responses to European assistance and political pressure in nature management, biodiversity conservation, and rural development. These responses were shaped by hotly contested notions of national identity articulated as contrasting visions of the "ideal" rural landscape.The players in this story include Latvian farmers and other traditional rural dwellers, environmental advocates, and professionals with divided attitudes toward new European approaches to sustainable development. An entrenched set of forestry and land management practices, with roots in the Soviet and pre-Soviet eras, confront growing international pressures on a small country to conform to current (Western) notions of environmental responsibility—notions often perceived by Latvians to be at odds with local interests. While the case is that of Latvia, the dynamics Schwartz explores have wide applicability and speak powerfully to broader theoretical discussions about sustainable development, social constructions of nature, the sources of nationalism, and the impacts of globalization and regional integration on the traditional nation-state.
Author : Lowell Dittmer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501723774
How to define a Chinese national identity remains as hotly contested a question among today's Chinese citizens as it has been among foreign observers. This volume brings together ten new essays by an interdisciplinary group of leading sinologists and offers a comprehensive framework for understanding the nature of Chinese national identity in past and contemporary settings.
Author : Siniša Malešević
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 110842516X
Malešević shows how the recent escalation of populist nationalism is not an anomaly, but the result of globalisation and nationalism developing together through modern history.
Author : Elspeth Frew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135146837
By understanding tourist destinations through the lens of national identity, the tourist may develop a deeper appreciation of the destination. Further, tourism marketers and planners may be better equipped to promote and manage the destination, particularly with regard to expectations of the potential visitor. Tourism and National Identities is the first volume to fully explore the relationship between tourism and national identities and the multiple ways in which cultural tourism, events and celebrations contribute to national identity. It examines core topics critical to understanding this relationship including: tourism branding, stereotyping and national identity; tourism-related representation and experience of national identity; tourism visitation/site/event management and the relationship to cultural tourism. The book looks at a range of international tourist sites and events, combines multidisciplinary perspectives and international cases to provide a thorough academic analysis. The interconnecting area of cultural tourism and national identity has been largely overlooked in the academic literature to date. This book gives considerable analysis to the complex relationship between the two domains and indeed, the multifaceted strategies used to define that relationship. Written by an international team of leading academics, Tourism and National Identities will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in tourism and related disciplines such as events, cultural studies and geography.
Author : Ruth Wodak
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 2009-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748637354
How do we construct national identities in discourse? Which topics, which discursive strategies and which linguistic devices are employed to construct national sameness and uniqueness on the one hand, and differences to other national collectives on the other hand? The Discursive Construction of National Identity analyses discourses of national identity in Europe with particular attention to Austria.In the tradition of critical discourse analysis, the authors analyse current and on-going transformations in the self-and other definition of national identities using an innovative interdisciplinary approach which combines discourse-historical theory and methodology and political science perspectives. Thus, the rhetorical promotion of national identification and the discursive construction and reproduction of national difference on public, semi-public and semi-private levels within a nation state are analysed in much detail and illustrated with a huge amount of examples taken from many genres (speeches, focus-groups, interviews, media, and so forth). In addition to the critical discourse analysis of multiple genres accompanying various commemorative and celebratory events in 1995, this extended and revised edition is able to draw comparisons with similar events in 2005. The impact of socio-political changes in Austria and in the European Union is also made transparent in the attempts of constructing hegemonic national identities.
Author : Krishan Kumar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521777360
Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so difficult to say who they are? The Making of English National Identity, first published in 2003, is a fascinating exploration of Englishness and what it means to be English. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary theory, Krishan Kumar examines the rise of English nationalism and issues of race and ethnicity from earliest times to the present day. He argues that the long history of the English as an imperial people has, as with other imperial people like the Russians and the Austrians, developed a sense of missionary nationalism which in the interests of unity and empire has necessitated the repression of ordinary expressions of nationalism. Professor Kumar's lively and provocative approach challenges readers to reconsider their pre-conceptions about national identity and who the English really are.