Nationalism Unbecoming

Author : Helene Vosters
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780887555855

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Unbecoming Nationalism by Helene Vosters Pdf

Canada’s recent sesquicentennial celebrations were the latest in a long, steady progression of Canadian cultural memory projects. Unbecoming Nationalism investigates the power of commemorative performances in the production of nationalist narratives. Using “unbecoming” as a theoretical framework to unsettle or decolonize nationalist narratives, Helene Vosters examines an eclectic range of both state-sponsored social memory projects and counter-memorial projects to reveal and unravel the threads connecting reverential military commemoration, celebratory cultural nationalism, and white settler-colonial nationalism. Vosters brings readings of institutional, aesthetic, and activist performances of Canadian military commemoration, settler-colonial nationalism, and redress into conversation with literature that examines the relationship between memory, violence, and nationalism from the disciplinary arenas of performance studies, Canadian studies, critical race and Indigenous studies, memory studies, and queer and gender studies. In addition to using performance as a theoretical framework, Vosters uses performance to enact a philosophy of praxis and embodied theory.

Author : Richard Crockatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : United States
ISBN : 1900039842

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Nationalism Unbecoming by Richard Crockatt Pdf

Author : Kariann Akemi Yokota
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199779918

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Unbecoming British by Kariann Akemi Yokota Pdf

What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of early American national identity? In this wide-ranging and bold new interpretation of American history and its Founding Fathers, Kariann Akemi Yokota shows that political independence from Britain fueled anxieties among the Americans about their cultural inferiority and continuing dependence on the mother country. Caught between their desire to emulate the mother country and an awareness that they lived an ocean away on the periphery of the known world, they went to great lengths to convince themselves and others of their refinement. Taking a transnational approach to American history, Yokota examines a wealth of evidence from geography, the decorative arts, intellectual history, science, and technology to underscore that the process of "unbecoming British" was not an easy one. Indeed, the new nation struggled to define itself economically, politically, and culturally in what could be called America's postcolonial period. Out of this confusion of hope and exploitation, insecurity and vision, a uniquely American identity emerged.

Author : Antonio Lopez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814765470

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Unbecoming Blackness by Antonio Lopez Pdf

2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences. López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in theU.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas/os. In the works of Alberto O’Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, Rómulo Lachatañeré, and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an “unbecoming” relationship between Afro-Cubans in the U.S and their domestic black counterparts. The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere, represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of Afro-Cubans in the U.S., provide the fullest account of a transnational Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American, and the Latino as Afro-Latino.

Author : Anupama Roy
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8125027971

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Gendered Citizenship by Anupama Roy Pdf

Adopting a historical conceptual approach, this book examines the gendering of citizenship. It argues that through successive historical periods, `becoming a citizen has involved a gradual extension of the status, to more and more persons and groups, in particular, women, which resulted in a more inclusive and egalitarian structure. But, the promise of equal membership in the politcal community masks the exclusionary framework that defines citizenship as found in caste hierarchies, gender differences, and divides between religious communities based on majority and minority status. Engaging with contemporary debates on citizenship that place themselves within the framework of multiculturalism and world citizenship this work asserts the need to redefine the notion of community by focussing on citizenship as a measure of activity and practice, and by exposing the subtleties of role definition of women implicit in community norms.

Author : Ian Peach
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015068814758

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Constructing Tomorrow's Federalism by Ian Peach Pdf

From discussions on democracy and distinctiveness to explorations of self-governance and power imbalances, Constructing Tomorrow's Federalism tests assertions from scholars and practitioners on the legitimacy and future of the state of the federation.

Author : Karen Busby,Adam Muller,Andrew Woolford
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780887554698

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The Idea of a Human Rights Museum by Karen Busby,Adam Muller,Andrew Woolford Pdf

"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and institutions elsewhere in the world that emphasize human rights and social justice. This collection brings together authors from diverse fields—law, cultural studies, museum studies, sociology, history, political science, and literature—to critically assess the potentials and pitfalls of human rights education through “ideas” museums. Accessible, engaging, and informative, the collection’s essays will encourage museum-goers to think more deeply about the content of human rights exhibits. The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first title in the University of Manitoba Press’s Human Rights and Social Justice Series. This series publishes work that explores the quest for social justice and the basic rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled, including civil, political, economic, social, collective, and cultural rights.

Author : Joanne Barker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373162

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Critically Sovereign by Joanne Barker Pdf

Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology. Several essays use a range of literary and legal texts to analyze the production of colonial space, the biopolitics of “Indianness,” and the collisions and collusions between queer theory and colonialism within Indigenous studies. Others address the U.S. government’s criminalization of traditional forms of Diné marriage and sexuality, the Iñupiat people's changing conceptions of masculinity as they embrace the processes of globalization, Hawai‘i’s same-sex marriage bill, and stories of Indigenous women falling in love with non-human beings such as animals, plants, and stars. Following the politics of gender, sexuality, and feminism across these diverse historical and cultural contexts, the contributors question and reframe the thinking about Indigenous knowledge, nationhood, citizenship, history, identity, belonging, and the possibilities for a decolonial future. Contributors. Jodi A. Byrd, Joanne Barker, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Mishuana Goeman, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Melissa K. Nelson, Jessica Bissett Perea, Mark Rifkin

Author : Michael Hutt,Michael J. Hutt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111805789

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Unbecoming Citizens by Michael Hutt,Michael J. Hutt Pdf

The Book Is Based On Research Conducted In Bhutan And Nepal During Seven Visits To The Region Between 1992 And 2001, And Particularly On Interview-Based Life History Research In The Refugee Camps In Nepal.

Author : Linda M. Morra,Sarah Henzi
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771125154

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On the Other Side(s) of 150 by Linda M. Morra,Sarah Henzi Pdf

On the Other Side(s) of 150 explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations. It asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories have been suppressed and invites consideration about what happens once a commemorative moment has passed. Like a Cubist painting, this modality offers a critical strategy by which also to approach the volume as dismantling, reassembling, and re-enacting existing commemorative tropes; as offering multiple, conditional, and contingent viewpoints that unfold over time; and as generating a broader (although far from being comprehensive) range of counter-memorial performances. The chapters in this volume are thus provisional, interconnected, and adaptive: they offer critical assemblages by which to approach commemorative narratives or showcase lacunae therein; by which to return to and intervene in ongoing readings of the past from the present moment; and by which not necessarily to resolve, but rather to understand the troubled and troubling narratives of the present moment. Contributors propose that these preoccupations are not a means of turning away from present concerns, but rather a means of grappling with how the past informs or is shaped to inform them; and how such concerns are defined by immediate social contexts and networks.

Author : Beng Huat Chua,Koichi Iwabuchi
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9622098924

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East Asian Pop Culture by Beng Huat Chua,Koichi Iwabuchi Pdf

The contributors analyse the subject of Asian pop culture arranged under three headings: 'Television Industry in East Asia', 'Transnational-Crosscultural Receptions of TV Dramas' and 'Nationalistic reactions'.

Author : Liah Greenfeld
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0674603192

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Nationalism by Liah Greenfeld Pdf

Nationalism is a movement and a state of mind that brings together national identity, consciousness, and collectivities. A five-country study that spans five hundred years, this historically oriented work in sociology bids well to replace all previous works on the subject.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Distri
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Philosophy of Gura Nanak by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jiyoung Ko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197684566

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Popular Nationalism and War by Jiyoung Ko Pdf

"Does nationalism lead to interstate war? This book challenges the existing presumption that nationalism causes war and systematically investigates how popular nationalism affects a country's decision to launch military aggression. In doing so, the book makes a provocative and novel claim that popular nationalism has both a conflict-inducing and a restraining effect and identifies the conditions under which popular nationalism triggers interstate violence. Specifically, the book asserts that popular nationalism leads to war only when leaders who confront popular nationalism are very confident about their chance of achieving complete victory in conflict or they are politically vulnerable. In the absence of these two conditions, popular nationalism has a restraining effect, pushing leaders toward seeking the status quo and avoiding the use of force. The book first demonstrates the restraining effect of popular nationalism through a survey experiment conducted in China and an in-depth case study on the territorial dispute between China and Japan in the East China Sea. It then offers a comprehensive historical and contemporary analysis of when popular nationalism's restraining effect turns into a conflict-inducing one through case studies on the War of 1812 and the Falklands War. The book provides important insights into whether popular nationalism could put great powers like the United States and China on a collision course, as well as broad policy implications for preventing war driven by popular nationalism"--

Author : Benjamin E. Park
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108420372

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American Nationalisms by Benjamin E. Park Pdf

This book traces how early Americans imagined what a 'nation' meant during the first fifty years of the country's existence.