Imagining Ethnic Communities

Author : Benedict Anderson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781683590

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What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.

Author : Chayan Vaddhanaphuti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Ethnic groups
ISBN : 616398658X

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Author : Gemma Blok,Vincent Kuitenbrouwer,Claire Weeda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Communities
ISBN : 9462980039

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Imagining Communities by Gemma Blok,Vincent Kuitenbrouwer,Claire Weeda Pdf

This book examines actual processes of experiencing the imagined community, exploring its emotive force in a number of case studies.

Author : Hans Werner
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106017336634

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Imagined Homes by Hans Werner Pdf

A study of the social and cultural integration of two migrations of German speakers from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to Winnipeg, Canada in the late 1940s, and Bielefeld, Germany in the 1970s. Employing a cross-national comparative framework, Hans Werner reveals that the imagined trajectory of immigrant lives influenced the process of integration into a new urban environment.

Author : Sheila L. Croucher
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0813917050

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Imagining Miami by Sheila L. Croucher Pdf

Miami has long captured the world's attention in provocative ways. During the 1980s, a series of violent racial disturbances focused national and international attention there as analysts and observers scrambled to explain the demise of the "Magic City." What has emerged is a popular image of Miami as an urban area in which three distinct ethnic groups- Hispanics, Blacks, and Anglos- are pitted against one another in a battle for limited political, economic, and social resources. Sheila L. Croucher uses Miami as a laboratory in which to explore the social and political construction of ethnic identities and ethnic group conflict. Incorporating interviews with community leaders, politicians, journalists, and business people, as well as periodical and popular literature on Miami, this book examines how social constructs emerge and become accepted, as well as how these definitions reflect the pull of vested interests locally, nationally, and even internationally.

Author : Peter Ratcliffe
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335227556

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EBOOK: Race Ethnicity and Difference: Imagining the Inclusive Society by Peter Ratcliffe Pdf

"This excellent book … provides an extremely readable account which deserves to be widely read by a more general audience. In short, the author, in making sense of current imaginings, presents a mix of theoretical and empirical debates, as he challenges exclusionary forces. The book’s principal aim is to take a critical look at the nature and sources of inequalities in contemporary societies and examine the prospects for an ‘inclusive society’. This aim captures an important strength of the text, as the analysis attempts to move beyond simple description and provide explanations and possible solutions to enable policy and practice to tackle disadvantage and discrimination." Social Policy This book addresses many of the key problems facing contemporary societies. The social significance attached to various forms of difference, most notably ‘race’ and ethnicity, has been seen as resulting in the exclusion of some groups from their full rights as citizens. This, in turn, is viewed as presenting a series of barriers to the creation of more inclusive societies. Peter Ratcliffe explores these arguments in a variety of substantive contexts, for example immigration and the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers; housing and segregation; education; labour markets; and policing and urban conflict. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of social agency, on the part of minorities, in confronting exclusionary forces. This lively and highly readable account deals with difficult theoretical, ethical and policy issues without resort to unnecessary jargon. It is essential reading for undergraduate students in sociology, social policy, urban geography, law and political science, and is also of value to the general reader and researcher.

Author : Campbell, Elizabeth,Pahl, Kate
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447333326

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Re-imagining Contested Communities by Campbell, Elizabeth,Pahl, Kate Pdf

This look offers a close look at contested communities through the lens of Rotherham, an English town struggling to survive in terms of its image, profile and identity. Recently divided, and left reeling, from the powerful impact of the Jay report on Child Sexual Exploitation, and increasingly used as a center for activism and agitation by the far right, Rotherham could be seen as an exemplar of a contested community. But what happens when a community confronts an identity that has been forced upon it? How does a community re-define itself? More than simply a book about Rotherham, this is a book about history, culture, feelings, methods and ideas that will help to articulate the lived meanings of political cultures in Britain today.

Author : O. Bailey,M. Georgiou,R. Harindranath
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230591905

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Transnational Lives and the Media by O. Bailey,M. Georgiou,R. Harindranath Pdf

This collection offers a comprehensive account of the relation between diaspora and media cultures. It analyses the politics of transnational communication, the consumption of media by diasporic communities, and the views of non-governmental organizations on issues of the participation and representation of ethnic minorities in the media.

Author : Fetson Anderson Kalua
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527552227

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Re-imagining African Identity in the Twenty-First Century by Fetson Anderson Kalua Pdf

The book discusses the idea of African identity in the twenty-first century, calling into question and deconstructing any understanding and representation of the idea of African identity as being based exclusively on the notion of ‘Blackness’, or the Black race. In countering such an idea of African identity as a flawed notion, the text propounds the idea of intermediality as a new modality of thinking about the importance of embracing the primacy of tolerance for the difference of identity. The notion of intermediality promotes the need for people of all races across the African continent to embrace the idea of difference as the defining feature of African identity so that the geographical locality called Africa is seen as a vibrant, open, and cosmopolitan continent which is accessible to people of all races and identities.

Author : Ratcliffe, Peter
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335210954

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Race Ethnicity And Difference: Imagining The Inclusive Society by Ratcliffe, Peter Pdf

This book addresses many of the key problems facing contemporary societies. The social significance attached to various forms of difference, most notably ‘race’ and ethnicity, has been seen as resulting in the exclusion of some groups from their full rights as citizens. This, in turn, is viewed as presenting a series of barriers to the creation of more inclusive societies.

Author : Christopher Dowd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136902413

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The Construction of Irish Identity in American Literature by Christopher Dowd Pdf

This book examines the development of literary constructions of Irish-American identity from the mid-nineteenth century arrival of the Famine generation through the Great Depression. It goes beyond an analysis of negative Irish stereotypes and shows how Irish characters became the site of intense cultural debate regarding American identity, with some writers imagining Irishness to be the antithesis of Americanness, but others suggesting Irishness to be a path to Americanization. This study emphasizes the importance of considering how a sense of Irishness was imagined by both Irish-American writers conscious of the process of self-definition as well as non-Irish writers responsive to shifting cultural concerns regarding ethnic others. It analyzes specific iconic Irish-American characters including Mark Twain’s Huck Finn and Margaret Mitchell’s Scarlet O’Hara, as well as lesser-known Irish monsters who lurked in the American imagination such as T.S. Eliot’s Sweeney and Frank Norris’ McTeague. As Dowd argues, in contemporary American society, Irishness has been largely absorbed into a homogenous white culture, and as a result, it has become a largely invisible ethnicity to many modern literary critics. Too often, they simply do not see Irishness or do not think it relevant, and as a result, many Irish-American characters have been de-ethnicized in the critical literature of the past century. This volume reestablishes the importance of Irish ethnicity to many characters that have come to be misread as generically white and shows how Irishness is integral to their stories.

Author : Nicolas Adell,Regina F. Bendix,Chiara Bortolotto,Markus Tauschek
Publisher : Göttingen University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Communities of practice
ISBN : 9783863952051

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Between Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice by Nicolas Adell,Regina F. Bendix,Chiara Bortolotto,Markus Tauschek Pdf

Community and participation have become central concepts in the nomination processes surrounding heritage, intersecting time and again with questions of territory. In this volume, anthropologists and legal scholars from France, Germany, Italy and the USA take up questions arising from these intertwined concerns from diverse perspectives: How and by whom were these concepts interpreted and re-interpreted, and what effects did they bring forth in their implementation? What impact was wielded by these terms, and what kinds of discursive formations did they bring forth? How do actors from local to national levels interpret these new components of the heritage regime, and how do actors within heritage-granting national and international bodies work it into their cultural and political agency? What is the role of experts and expertise, and when is scholarly knowledge expertise and when is it partisan? How do bureaucratic institutions translate the imperative of participation into concrete practices? Case studies from within and without the UNESCO matrix combine with essays probing larger concerns generated by the valuation and valorization of culture.

Author : Emine Yesim Bedlek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857728005

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Imagined Communities in Greece and Turkey by Emine Yesim Bedlek Pdf

In 1923 the Turkish government, under its new leader Kemal Ataturk, signed a renegotiated Balkan Wars treaty with the major powers of the day and Greece. This treaty provided for the forced exchange of 1.3 million Christians from Anatolia to Greece, in return for 30,000 Greek Muslims. The mass migration that ensued was a humanitarian catastrophe - of the 1.3 million Christians relocated it is estimated only 150,000 were successfully integrated into the Greek state. Furthermore, because the treaty was ethnicity-blind, tens of thousands of Muslim Greeks (ethnically and linguistically) were forced into Turkey against their will. Both the Greek and Turkish leadership saw this exchange as crucial to the state-strengthening projects both powers were engaged in after the First World War. Here, Emine Bedlek approaches this enormous shift in national thinking through literary texts - addressing the themes of loss, identity, memory and trauma which both populations experienced. The result is a new understanding of the tensions between religious and ethnic identity in modern Turkey.

Author : Webb Peter Webb
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474408288

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Imagining the Arabs by Webb Peter Webb Pdf

Who are the Arabs? When did people begin calling themselves Arabs? And what was the Arabs' role in the rise of Islam? Investigating these core questions about Arab identity and history by marshalling the widest array of Arabic sources employed hitherto, and by closely interpreting the evidence with theories of identity and ethnicity, Imagining the Arabs proposes new answers to the riddle of Arab origins and fundamental reinterpretations of early Islamic history. This book reveals that the time-honoured stereotypes which depict Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin are entirely misleading because the essence of Arab identity was in fact devised by Muslims during the first centuries of Islam. Arab identity emerged and evolved as groups imagined new notions of community to suit the radically changing circumstances of life in the early Caliphate. The idea of 'the Arab' was a device which Muslims utilised to articulate their communal identity, to negotiate post-Conquest power relations, and to explain the rise of Islam. Over Islam's first four centuries, political elites, genealogists, poetry collectors, historians and grammarians all participated in a vibrant process of imagining and re-imagining Arab identity and history, and the sum of their works established a powerful tradition that influences Middle Eastern communities to the present day.

Author : Alex Hunt
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739123959

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The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx by Alex Hunt Pdf

This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all of her novels and short story collections, scholars from the United States, Canada, and abroad engage in critical analyses of Proulx's new regionalism, use of geographical settings, and themes of displacement and immigration. Taken together, these essays demonstrate Annie Proulx's contribution to new regionalist understandings of place on local, national, and global scales. Readers will come away with a better understanding of Proulx's particular landscapes_particularly those of Wyoming, New England, Texas, and Newfoundland_and the issues surrounding the significance of these regions in contemporary American culture and literature.