Political Culture Soft Interventions And Nation Building

Author : Tiffany Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317643883

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Political Culture, Soft Interventions and Nation Building by Tiffany Jenkins Pdf

This book raises questions about cultural interventions, an area of investigation somewhat overlooked in place of developing a critique of political interventions. Whilst political interventions are more explicit, coercive, and have a wide-reaching impact, it is important also to examine the way culture is used in attempts to reconstruct society and peoples - the ‘soft’ side of statebuilding, where heritage is utilised to play a role in the construction of the nation and the people, in memory and identity. For it can play a role in legitimizing myths and identifying symbolic, historic events, and implicitly informs the construction of infrastructure, institutions, and other aspects of civic life. Contributors from the fields of politics, anthropology, archaeology, and sociology examine interventions in state and nation building through cultural methods, the ‘soft’ side of statebuilding, including the preservation and promotion of certain heritage, the politics of remembrance and monument building, and the repatriation of human remains and artefacts to communities in the name of making reparations for past atrocities. These are timely contributions. Heritage and cultural is too often considered in terms of how tourism might contribute to the economy post-conflict, neglecting the construction of meaning and memory through decisions about is what is preserved or not. It will be of special interest to those in the field of cultural studies, archaeology, and politics as well as international relations. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.

Author : Edward Weisband,Courtney I P Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317254096

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Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States by Edward Weisband,Courtney I P Thomas Pdf

This book focuses on transformations of political culture from times past to future-present. It defines the meaning of political culture and explores the cultural values and institutions of kinship communities and dynastic intermediaries, including chiefdoms and early states. It systematically examines the rise and gradual universalization of modern sovereign nation-states. Contemporary debates concerning nationality, nationalism, citizenship, and hyphenated identities are engaged. The authors recount the making of political culture in the American nation-state and look at the processes of internal colonialism in the American experience, examining how major ethnic, sectarian, racial, and other distinctions arose and congealed into social and cultural categories. The book concludes with a study of the Holocaust, genocide, crimes against humanity, and the political cultures of violation in post-colonial Rwanda and in racialized ethno-political conflicts in various parts of the world. Struggles over legitimacy in nation-building and state-building are at the heart of this new take on the important role of political culture.

Author : Edward Weisband,Courtney Irene Powell Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nation-state
ISBN : 1612058035

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Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-states by Edward Weisband,Courtney Irene Powell Thomas Pdf

Author : Walter A. Rosenbaum
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002264854

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Political Culture by Walter A. Rosenbaum Pdf

For introductory and intermediate undergraduate courses in political science.

Author : Benjamin J Richardson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509969043

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Before Environmental Law by Benjamin J Richardson Pdf

This landmark book unveils the history of defending Australia's natural environment and examines the subject's legal and political contexts from the birth of the nation in 1901 until the advent of the so-called modern era of environmental regulation in the late 1960s. It rejects the mythology that Australia lacked environmental law before the late 1960s in revealing how many of today's environmental laws, from pollution control to nature conservation, emerged from precedents or events much earlier in the 20th century. This history however reveals a discrepancy between lawmakers' greater efficacy to exploit rather than protect the environment, a discrepancy that grew as nature's backlash intensified in a rapidly degrading continent colonised to build the Australian nation. In exploring these dynamics, the book offers a rich tapestry of case studies illustrated with historic photographs that show the origins of Australia's environmental laws and how they borrowed from international precedents or furnished lessons for other nations. Through its multi-disciplinary enquiry, the book offers scholars and students of environmental law, legal history and the environmental humanities a unique story about the failures and successes in the making of environmental law.

Author : Sarah Baker,Catherine Strong,Lauren Istvandity,Zelmarie Cantillon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315299297

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The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage by Sarah Baker,Catherine Strong,Lauren Istvandity,Zelmarie Cantillon Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage examines the social, cultural, political and economic value of popular music as history and heritage. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the volume explores the relationship between popular music and the past, and how interpretations of the changing nature of the past in post-industrial societies play out in the field of popular music. In-depth chapters cover key themes around historiography, heritage, memory and institutions, alongside case studies from around the world, including the UK, Australia, South Africa and India, exploring popular music’s connection to culture both past and present. Wide-ranging in scope, the book is an excellent introduction for students and scholars working in musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, critical heritage studies, cultural studies, memory studies and other related fields.

Author : Marcel Uwineza,Elisée Rutagambwa,Michel Segatagara Kamanzi
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Postwar reconstruction
ISBN : 9781647123475

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Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda by Marcel Uwineza,Elisée Rutagambwa,Michel Segatagara Kamanzi Pdf

The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Church's role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliation From April to July 1994, more than a million people were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Tutsi men, women, and children were slaughtered by Hutu extremists in churches and school buildings, and their lifeless bodies were left rotting in these sacred places under the deep silence of church authorities. Pope Francis's apology more than twenty years later presents the opportunity to reimagine the essence of the Church, the missionary enterprise, theology in its multiple dimensions, the purification of memory, and the place of human dignity in the Catholic faith. Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda critically examines the Church's responsibility in Rwanda's tragic history and opens the dialogue to construct a new theology. Contributors to this volume offer moving personal testimonies of their journeys to reconciling the evil that has marred the Church's image: bystanders' indifference to the suffering, despite their claim as members of the Church. The first volume of its kind, Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda is a necessary step toward the Rwandan Catholic Church and humanity's restoration of fundamental peace and lasting reconciliation. Catholic clergy, lay people, and human rights advocates will benefit from this examination of ecclesial moral failure and subsequent reconciliatory efforts.

Author : Charlotta Hillerdal,Anna Karlström,Carl-Gösta Ojala
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317281689

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Archaeologies of “Us” and “Them” by Charlotta Hillerdal,Anna Karlström,Carl-Gösta Ojala Pdf

Archaeologies of “Us” and “Them” explores the concept of indigeneity within the field of archaeology and heritage and in particular examines the shifts in power that occur when ‘we’ define ‘the other’ by categorizing ‘them’ as indigenous. Recognizing the complex and shifting distinctions between indigenous and non-indigenous pasts and presents, this volume gives a nuanced analysis of the underlying definitions, concepts and ethics associated with this field in order to explore Indigenous archaeology as a theoretical, ethical and political concept. Indigenous archaeology is an increasingly important topic discussed worldwide, and as such critical analyses must be applied to debates which are often surrounded by political correctness and consensus views. Drawing on an international range of global case studies, this timely and sensitive collection significantly contributes to the development of archaeological critical theory.

Author : César Villanueva Rivas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : National characteristics, Mexican
ISBN : 9176365603

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Representing Cultural Diplomacy by César Villanueva Rivas Pdf

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Barbara Gronau,Christel Weiler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136918896

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Global Ibsen by Erika Fischer-Lichte,Barbara Gronau,Christel Weiler Pdf

Ibsen’s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy, they were performed in Europe, North America, and Australia, contributing greatly to the theater, culture, and social life of these continents. Soon after Ibsen’s death, his plays entered the stages of East Asia - Japan, China, Korea - as well as Africa and Latin America. . But while there exist countless studies on Ibsen the dramatist and the significance of his plays within different cultures written mainly by literary scholars, none of them examine the ways in which Ibsen's plays were performed, or the impact of such performances on the theater, social life, and politics of these cultures. In Global Ibsen, contributors look at the way performances of Ibsen's plays address problems typical to modern societies all over the world, including: the inferior social status of women, the decay of bourgeois family life and values, religious fundamentalism, industrial pollution and corporate cover-up, and/or the loss of and search for identity.

Author : J. Melissen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230554931

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The New Public Diplomacy by J. Melissen Pdf

After 9/11, which triggered a global debate on public diplomacy, 'PD' has become an issue in most countries. This book joins the debate. Experts from different countries and from a variety of fields analyze the theory and practice of public diplomacy. They also evaluate how public diplomacy can be successfully used to support foreign policy.

Author : René Grotenhuis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9462982198

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Nation-building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States by René Grotenhuis Pdf

René Grotenhuis analyses policies intended to bring stability to fragile states and shows how they ignore the question of what gives people a sense of belonging to a nation-state.

Author : Yasushi Watanabe,David L McConnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317459644

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Soft Power Superpowers by Yasushi Watanabe,David L McConnell Pdf

The term "soft power" describes a country's ability to get what it wants by attracting rather than coercing others - by engaging hearts and minds through cultural and political values and foreign policies that other countries see as legitimate and conducive to their own interests.This book analyzes the soft power assets of the United States and Japan, and how they contributed to one of the most successful, if unlikely, bilateral relationships of the twentieth century. Sponsored by the U.S. Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership, the book brings together anthropologists, political scientists, historians, economists, diplomats, and others to explore the multiple axes of soft power that operate in the U.S.-Japanese relationship, and between the United States and Japan and other regions of the world.The contributors move beyond an "either-or" concept of hard versus soft power to a more dynamic interpretation, and demonstrate the important role of non-state actors in wielding soft power. They show how public diplomacy on both sides of the Pacific - bolstered by less formal influences such as popular cultural icons, product brands, martial arts, baseball, and educational exchanges - has led to a vibrant U.S.-Japanese relationship since World War II despite formidable challenges. Emphasizing the essentially interactive nature of persuasion, the book highlights an approach to soft power that has many implications for the world today.

Author : Conor Keane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317003182

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US Nation-Building in Afghanistan (Open Access) by Conor Keane Pdf

Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This book rectifies this weakness in commentary on Afghanistan by exploring the significant role of these divisions in the US’s difficulties in the country that meant the battle was virtually lost before it even began. The main objective of the book is to deepen readers understanding of the impact of bureaucratic politics on nation-building in Afghanistan, focusing primarily on the Bush Administration. It rejects the ’rational actor’ model, according to which the US functions as a coherent, monolithic agent. Instead, internal divisions within the foreign policy bureaucracy are explored, to build up a picture of the internal tensions and contradictions that bedevilled US nation-building efforts. The book also contributes to the vexed issue of whether or not the US should engage in nation-building at all, and if so under what conditions.

Author : Stephanie Dennison,Rachel Dwyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474456286

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Cinema and Soft Power by Stephanie Dennison,Rachel Dwyer Pdf

Explores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemas.