È fascista la Madonna del fascio? Arte e architettura a Predappio tra conservazione e polemica politica
Fascismo senza fascismo? Indovini e revenants nella cultura popolare italiana (1899-1919 e 1989-2009), ed. By Luciano Curreri and Fabrizio Foni (Cuneo: Nerosubianco 2011).
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by Clem Robyns
Published in Andreas Poltermann (ed.), Literaturkanon – Medienereignis – Kultureller Tekst, Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1995, 179-207
The official discourse in France on Franglais and Francophony illustrates how the hegemony of a dominant identitary... more The official discourse in France on Franglais and Francophony illustrates how the hegemony of a dominant identitary discourse is challenged, leading to a particular combination of imperialist and defensive doctrines. The identitary discourse is the official, or semi-official, ideology of the universality of French language and culture , which has been undermined after the second world war by the dominance of the United States, and the massive export of American culture products to France. Both the discourse on Franglais and Francophony propaganda are discursive manifestations of the political link between notions such as language, culture, nation, collective identity. While anti-Franglais discourse, in which specifically linguistic-cultural interests are at stake, is mainly produced by intellectuals, especially teachers, who demand political support, Francophony appears more as a political concept for which linguistic and cultural arguments are an alibi. This paper analyzes the official discourse on Franglais and Francophony and relates them to their respective defensive and imperialist doctrines.
A Internacionalização de valores sociais e culturais: sobre as estratégias de homogeneização e localização da revista Seleções
by Clem Robyns
Translation into Portuguese (2011) of "The internationalisation of social and cultural values:On the homogenization and localization strategies of The Reader's Digest".
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by Clem Robyns
A Portuguese translation can be found at: http://www.pget.ufsc.br/in-traducoes/edicao_4/Tradu%C3%A7%C3%A3oGotz_R
Neoliberalism and geography: expansions, variegations, formations
Springer, S. 2010. Neoliberalism and geography: expansions, variegations, formations. Geography Compass. 4 (8), 1025-1038.
The pervasiveness of neoliberalism within the field of human geography is remarkable, especially when we consider its... more The pervasiveness of neoliberalism within the field of human geography is remarkable, especially when we consider its virtual absence from the literature less than a decade ago. While the growing attention afforded to neoliberalism among geographers is new, the phenomenon of neoliberalism is not. This paper traces the intellectual history of neoliberalism and its expansions across various institutional frameworks and geographical settings. I review the primary contributions geographers have made to the literature, and specifically their recognition for neoliberalism’s variegations within existing political economic matrixes and institutional frameworks. Contra the prevailing view of neoliberalism as a pure and static end-state, geographical inquiry illuminates neoliberalism as a dynamic and unfolding process. The concept of ‘neoliberalization’ is thus seen as more appropriate to geographical theorizations insofar as it recognizes neoliberalism’s hybridized and mutated forms as it travels around our world. I also consider some of the most salient ways that neoliberalism has been theorized among human geographers. In particular, I highlight understandings of neoliberalism as a hegemonic ideology, as a policy-based approach to state reform, and as a particular logic of governmentality, arguing that while there are significant differences between these various formations, it may also be important to work beyond methodological, epistemological, and ontological divides in the larger interest of social justice.
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by Mark Gring
Co-authored with Mark Goodman in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, pp. 397-418. Vol. 3, no. 3, Fall, 2000
Conceptual Debates in Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration
Larin, Stephen J. "Conceptual Debates in Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration." In The International Studies Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Denemark, 438-57. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
The purpose of this essay is to review some of the basic conceptual debates in nationalism studies under the broad and... more
The purpose of this essay is to review some of the basic conceptual debates in nationalism studies under the broad and interrelated categories of ethnicity, nations and nationalism, and classification of nations and nationalism. The sheer volume of literature produced on these subjects, particularly since the collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, poses a major challenge, but the present selective focus using key and influential texts as examples should provide the reader with a solid foundation for further research. The essay has three sections, organized as follows. The first, on ethnicity, provides a brief history of the term and an overview of what is usually described as the debate between primordialist and instrumentalist accounts of ethnicity, but suggests that this characterization is misleading. Section two, on nations and nationalism, begins with a similar etymology before surveying the debate between modernist, perennialist, and ethno-symbolist conceptions of the nature of and relations between those two phenomena. Finally, the third section reviews the range of ways that nations and nationalism have been classified, including the now dominant distinction between civic and ethnic types.
This essay is part of the "Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration" section of the International Studies Association's "International Studies Encyclopedia" (www.isacompendium.com).
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Erwägen Wissen Ethik, vol. 15, no. 3 (2004), pp. 355-357, 418-420.
Dugin Not a Fascist? A Debate with A. James Gregor (6 texts)
Erwägen Wissen Ethik, vol. 15, nos 3 & 4 (2004), pp. 424-429, 591-595; vol. 16, no. 4 (2005), pp. 566-572.
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