Nationalism, National Identity

Football, Nation and Identity: German Miracles in the Post-War Era.

by Werner Krauss

In: Dyck, Noel und Eduardo P. Archetti (eds.) 2003 Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities. Oxford, New York: Berg, pp. 197-216

Debating Québec’s Interculturalism as a Response to Canada’s Multiculturalism: An Exercise in Normative Nationalisms?

by Darryl Leroux

This is a short paper I wrote for an issue of Canadian Diversity/Diversité canadienne published in April 2012.

This paper argues that normative debates about the relative merits of interculturalism in Québec are evidence of a... more This paper argues that normative debates about the relative merits of interculturalism in Québec are evidence of a particular type of nationalism in both Québec and Canada, one that continues to centre the experiences of the “two founding” nations of Canada.

In order to resituate this debate, I locate interculturalism within the rise of tolerance discourses in Western liberal democracies since the 1980s. The first section of the paper presents a brief overview of some of the major claims for the rise of interculturalism in Québec. The second section of the paper provides a concise analysis of the racial politics of the intercultural discourse in Québec.

By doing so, I argue that despite their respective legitimacy, interculturalism and multiculturalism must be read as continued attempts to manage and limit expressions of racialized diversity in the social and political realms.

Belarus 2012: The Paradox of Europe and its Relations with the EU and Russia

by Sotirios Karampampas

published in Research Program on Foreign Policy, Defence & Security, Center of Russia, Eurasia & Southern Europe (CERE), Institute of International Relations (IIR), vol. 6, pp. 10-15.

Crowdsourcing the Celtic Bard: Wandering Minstrels and Mournful Harps

by Karen McAulay

Paper given at IAML(UK and Irl) Annual Study Weekend, Cardiff, April 2012.  This is the powerpoint of my presentation.  There is currently no written-out text, though it will hopefully appear as an article in Brio in due course.

A musicologist specialising in historic Scottish song collections describes the crowdsourcing and social media... more A musicologist specialising in historic Scottish song collections describes the crowdsourcing and social media methodology used to broaden her scope to embrace early Welsh harp and song collections as well.

The significance of the bard and his harp in Celtic music are then discussed, and some parallels drawn between Scottish and Welsh sources of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Η διαμόρφωση της ‘κοινής γνώμης’ στα εθνικά θέματα: Η ‘ομογένεια’ και τα διάφορα πρόσωπα του ‘ελληνισμού’ στον σύγχρονο ελληνικό Τύπο [Greek Public Opinion and National Issues: The Homogeneis and the ‘Different Faces’ of Hellenism in Modern Greek Newspapers]

by Elpida Vogli

δημοσιεύτηκε στο Χρήστος Α. Φραγκονικολόπουλος (επιμ. και εισαγ.), ΜΜΕ, Κοινωνία και Πολιτική. Ρόλος και Λειτουργία στη Σύγχρονη Ελλάδα, Αθήνα, εκδ. Ι. Σιδέρη (στη σειρά Δημοσιογραφία και ΜΜΕ), 2005, σ. 381-396. [published in Christos A. Fragonikolopoulos (ed.), Mass Media, Society and Politics in Modern Greece, Athens, publ. Ι. Sideri (Journalism and Mass Media), pp. 381-396 (in Greek)

Scientific Technologies of National Identity as Colonial Legacies

by Rosa Medina-Domenech

Beyond Kurdistan? The Mesopotamia Social Forum and the appropriation and re-imagination of Mesopotamia by the Kurdish Movement.

by Marlies Casier

Published in the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 13:4, 417-432, December 2011.

Sanctities, Blasphemies and the (Jewish) Nation: Commemorative Inscriptions at a National Memorial Site in Israel

by Chaim Noy

Rugby et identité nationale en Nouvelle-Zélande

by John Nauright

Published in STAPS: Revue internationale des sciences du sport et de l'éducation physiques, 78 (2007), 101-114.

Globalization and Culture: Placing Ireland

by G. Honor Fagan

Atzoko eta gaurko harresiak

by Asier Blas Mendoza

Blas Mendoza, Asier (2004): Atzoko eta gaurko harresiak. Bilbo: Txalaparta.

Utopiez mintzo da liburu hau: mundua aldatu nahi zuten komunisten utopiaz; hauen buruzagiek sortutako utopia errealaz;... more Utopiez mintzo da liburu hau: mundua aldatu nahi zuten komunisten utopiaz; hauen buruzagiek sortutako utopia errealaz; stalinisten iruzurra eta hilketak borrokatu zituztenen utopiaz; eta, estatuek baztertutako nazio eta hizkuntza gutxituen utopiaz. Horiek guztiak, eta bat gehiago azaltzen da. Idazleak bere nortasunaren inguruko zalantzak argitzeko duen nahia. Horregatik, utopia horien bila joaten da. Berlingo harresia erori, eta hamar urte beranduago burututako bidaia da honakoa. Baina ez da bidaia fisikoa bakarrik, izan ere, honen kontakizuna aitzakia bihurtzen da Europa Ekialdeko zenbait atal historiko gogora ekartzeko, eta alde honetako herri eta hizkuntzak ezagutzeko. Tartean, egungo egoera soziala eta politikoa ditu hizpide. Bereziki, Demokrazia berriak sortu duen etsipena eta frustrazioa tratatzen ditu bertakoen ahotik.

“We Grew Here, You Flew Here”: The Politics of National Identity in the Cronulla Riots

by Benjamin Moffitt

Honours thesis, University of Wollongong, 2008. Awarded the 2008 University Medal.

What were the Cronulla riots, why did they occur, and what can they tell us about the operation of national identity?... more What were the Cronulla riots, why did they occur, and what can they tell us about the operation of national identity? Examining media accounts of the 2005 Cronulla riots through the theoretical framework of Ernesto Laclau’s political theory, this thesis aims to understand how we negotiate the border between ‘Australian’ and ‘un-Australian’, and how this delineation is vital to the creation of national identity. It traces the emergence of the overdetermined Middle Eastern/Muslim Other in Australian society, investigates why those who rioted at Cronulla and those who supported them imagined themselves as marginalised, and ultimately concludes that national identity, as a totalised hegemonic logic, is impossible.

Pedagogies of Space: (Re)Mapping National Territories, Borders, and Identities in Post-Soviet Textbooks

by Michael Mead

Co-authored with Dr. Iveta Silova (Associate Professor, Lehigh University) and Garine Palandjian (MA, Lehigh University)

(Re)Learning Ukrainian: Language Myths and Cultural Corrections in Literacy Primers of Post-Soviet Ukraine

by Michael Mead

Claiming and displaying (national) identity

by Susan Condor

Analytic techniques currently employed in empirical work on national identity often fail to correspond to the way in... more Analytic techniques currently employed in empirical work on national identity often fail to correspond to the way in which the construct is conceptualised in theory. In particular, approaches that emphasise the strategic and dialogic quality of national identity claims in everyday life do not easily combine with analytic practices that treat interview respondents’ self-descriptions as acts of literal self-disclosure. Applying Goffman’s constructs of frame and footing to a corpus of data collected in England, we consider how national identities may be performatively displayed in interview encounters. We argue that analytic approaches that overlook subordinate channels of communication, which take utterances out of narrative context, and which focus on what respondents report explicitly at the expense of what is elided or assumed in conversation, may contribute to overly literal, and conceptually unsophisticated, interpretations of the process of self-representation.

True North: Inuit Art and the Canadian Imagination

by Leanne Pupchek

Growing up nationalist: An emerging risk and a lesson to be learned

by Jelena Petrovic

Awarded essay. St.Gallen Wings of Excellence Award (1st prize)

Author examines the risk of youth nationalist movements in post-conflict states of the Western Balkans analyzing... more Author examines the risk of youth nationalist movements in post-conflict states of the Western Balkans analyzing factors influencing youth nationalists upbringing and proposing 4 principles on which adequate response should be built (SEEC - System, Education, Equality and Cooperation/Coordination)

Euskal Nortasuna Eta Norgintza Modernoa (I). Euskal Nortasun Modernoa, Norgintza Politikoaren Emari Gisa= Identidad Nacional Y Modernidad, Construcción De La …

by Eduardo Apodaka

“Entre la Guerra de castas y la ladinización. La imagen del indígena en la Centroamérica liberal, 1870-1944” en Revista de Estudios Sociales (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia), No. 26 (abril del 2007), pp. 58-72.

by David Diaz-Arias

“Fiesta e imaginería cívica: la memoria de la estatuaria de las celebraciones patrias costarricenses, 1876-1921” en Revista de Historia, Nos. 49-50 (enero-diciembre, 2004).

by David Diaz-Arias