Images Of Defeat In The Construction Of National Identity
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Symbols of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity
Author | : Steven J. Mock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Collective memory |
ISBN | : 9781139202114 |
Explains why nations elevate images of their own defeat to the center of their symbolism and understanding of their history.
Symbols of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity
Author | : Steven J. Mock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Collective memory |
ISBN | : 9781139206501 |
"THis is the first book to camparatively examine nations that emphasize images of their own defeat in their mythology and sense of history. Cases include Serbia, Israel, France, Greece and Ghana. Through exploring this phenomenon, it offers new insights into current theories in the study of nations and nationalism, incorporating approaches from diverse disciplines such as sociology, antropology and the psychology of religion"--
Symbols of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity
Author | : Steven Mock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2011-12-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139503529 |
If nationalism is the assertion of legitimacy for a nation and its effectiveness as a political entity, why do many nations emphasize images of their own defeat in understanding their history? Using Israel, Serbia, France, Greece and Ghana as examples, the author argues that this phenomenon exposes the ambivalence that lurks behind the passions nationalism evokes. Symbols of defeat glorify a nation's ancient past, while reenacting the destruction of that past as a necessary step in constructing a functioning modern society. As a result, these symbols often assume a foundational role in national mythology. Threats to such symbols are perceived as threats to the nation itself and consequently are met with desperation difficult for outsiders to understand.
National Identity in Times of Crises
Author | : Nora Femenia |
Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781560721963 |
As the 21st century dawns, the world is experiencing a firestorm of local and regional wars. But these wars are significantly different from other such wars during the past hundred years. The two major differences are the current advanced state of weaponry and the presence of big media simultaneously constructing different and contradicting realities. National identity mobilization is the driving force behind these disputes which UN seems unable to resolve. The Falklands-Malvinas War between Argentina and the United Kingdom is particularly instructive for understanding of regional and local wars. The participants were from different continents, cultures, military strengths and possessed vastly different basic assumptions. The author examines this war as a case study crucial to a clearer understanding of national self-images; mobilization of national identity, and aggressive decision-making. -- Amazon.com.
History Education and the Construction of National Identities
Author | : Mario Carretero |
Publisher | : IAP |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1617359378 |
How is history represented? As just a record of the past, as a part of a present identity or as future goals? This book explores how historical contents and narratives are presented in school textbooks and other cultural productions (museums, monuments, etc) and also how they are understood by students, in the context of increasing globalization. In these contemporary conditions, the relation between history learning processes, in and out of school, and the construction of national identities presents an ever more important topic. It is being studied by looking at the appropriation of historical narratives, which are frequently based on the official history of a nation state. Most of the chapters in this volume are educational studies about how the learning of history takes place in school settings of different countries such as Canada, France, Germany, Latin America, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. Covering such a broad sample of cultural and national contexts, they provide a rich reflection on history as a subject related to patriotism, cosmopolitanism, both or neither.
English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch
Author | : Andrew Fleck |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2024-01-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3031429109 |
This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national development. It reads a broad selection of early modern literary texts, some never before treated in Anglophone scholarship, in which the Dutch and the English wrote about each other and themselves. This interdisciplinary study brings to light the key affinities of these two nations: their embrace of liberty, turn toward Protestantism, and pursuit of commerce. It shows that as Catholic, colonial powers worked to prevent the rise of early modern Europe’s two great Protestant states, those similarities—as well as a combination of English admiration, envy, and distrust of the Dutch—produced an emulous rivalry that remade the two nations and their literature.
Sound, Image, and National Imaginary in the Construction of Latin/o American Identities
Author | : Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2017-12-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498565247 |
Sound, Image, and National Imaginary in the Construction of Latin/o American Identities addresses a gap in the many narratives discussing the cultural histories of Latin American nations, particularly in terms of the birth, configuration, and perpetuation of national identities. It argues that these processes were not as gradual or constrained as traditionally conceived. The actual circumstances dictating the adoption of particular technologies for the representation of national ideas shifted and varied according to many factors including local circumstances, political singularities, economic disparities, and highly individualized cultural transitions. This book proposes a model of chronology that is valid not only for nations that underwent strong processes of nationalism during the early or mid-twentieth century, but also for those that experienced highly idiosyncratic cultural, economic, and political development into the early twenty-first century.
Strategies of Remembrance
Author | : Michael Lane Bruner |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781570034695 |
"Most scholars argue that a nation, by definition, has economic, cultural, and ethnic components.
Political Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Latin America
Author | : Peter Lambert |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2006-11-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230601723 |
This topical volume seeks to analyze the intimate but under-studied relationship between the construction of national identity in Latin America, and the violent struggle for political power that has defined Latin American history since independence. The result is an original, fascinating contribution to an increasingly important field of study.