Reconstructing Identities

Reconstructing Identities
Author: Paramjit S. Judge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Contributed articles on the depiction of the society of Panjabis, South Asian people and their women in the works of Panjabi authors; covers the period, 18th to 20th century.

Reconstructing Identities

Reconstructing Identities
Author: Jürgen Rudolph
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

The aim of this text is to provide a social history of the Babas in Singapore. It describes and analyzes social, political and cultural aspects of their identities by taking into account the conceptual history of Baba designations from 1819-1994. It argues that defining the Babas is misleading, it is more meaningful to adopt a socio-historical approach that differentiates spaciotemporally-distinct Baba identities. Such an approach is usually avoided not only in research on the Babas, but in many other sociological, anthropological or historical studies. It concludes that there is no such thing as a Baba identity, it has always been in flux and needs to be reconstructed taking seriously the conceptual history. The two crucial turning-points in the history of the Babas, namely the Japanese occupation (1942-1945) and self-rule (1959) led to public emphasis on their culture. Prior emphasis on their former status as a political and economic elite have been hitherto neglected. Taking into account all aspects (legal, political, economic, cultural, linguistic, religious) of Baba identities leads us to a fascinating trajectory of a potential group.

Reconstructing Identity

Reconstructing Identity
Author: Nicholas Monk
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2017-07-31
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3319584278

This book examines the notion of identity through a multitude of interdisciplinary approaches. It collects current thinking from international scholars spanning philosophy, history, science, cultural studies, media, translation, performance, and marketing, each with an outlook informed by their own subject and a mission to reflect on a theme that is greater than the sum of its parts. This project was born out of a dynamic international and interdisciplinary pedagogical experience. While by no means a teaching guide or textbook, the authors’ experience of sharing the module with their students reinforced the fluidity and elusiveness of identity and its persistent facility to escape disciplinary classification. Identity as a subject for analysis and discussion, and as a lived reality for all of us, has never been more complex and multi-faceted. Each chapter of this singular collection provides a lens through which the concept of identity can be viewed and as the book progresses it moves from ideas based in disciplinary contexts – biology, psychiatry, philosophy, to those developed in multi and inter disciplinary contexts such as area studies, feminism and queer studies.

Remaking Home

Remaking Home
Author: Maja Korac
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1845459563

Rather than emphasising boundaries and territories by examining the ‘integration’ and ‘acculturation’ of the immigrant or the refugee, this book offers insights into the ideas and practices of individuals settling into new societies and cultures. It analyses their ideas of connecting and belonging; their accounts of the past, the present and the future; the interaction and networks of relations; practical strategies; and the different meanings of ‘home’ and belonging that are constructed in new sociocultural settings. The author uses empirical research to explore the experiences of refugees from the successor states of Yugoslavia, who are struggling to make a home for themselves in Amsterdam and Rome. By explaining how real people navigate through the difficulties of their displacement as well as the numerous scenarios and barriers to their emplacement, the author sheds new light on our understanding of what it is like to be a refugee.

Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic

Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic
Author: Kimberly Eison Simmons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

In Latin America and the Caribbean, racial issues are extremely complex and fluid, particularly the nature of 'blackness.' What it means to be called black is still very different for an African American living in the United States than it is for an individual in the Dominican Republic with an African ancestry. Racial categories were far from concrete as the Dominican populace grew, altered, and solidified around the present notions of identity. Kimberly Simmons explores the fascinating socio-cultural shifts in Dominicans' racial categories, concluding that Dominicans are slowly embracing blackness and ideas of African ancestry. Simmons also examines the movement of individuals between the Dominican Republic and the United States, where traditional notions of indio are challenged, debated, and called into question. How and why Dominicans define their racial identities reveal shifting coalitions between Caribbean peoples and African Americans, and proves intrinsic to understanding identities in the African diaspora.

Cinema in Democratizing Germany

Cinema in Democratizing Germany
Author: Heide Fehrenbach
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807861375

Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she explores the complex political uses of film--and the meanings attributed to film representation and spectatorship--during a period of abrupt transition to democracy. According to Fehrenbach, the process of national redefinition made cinema and cinematic control a focus of heated ideological debate. Moving beyond a narrow political examination of Allied-German negotiations, she investigates the broader social nexus of popular moviegoing, public demonstrations, film clubs, and municipal festivals. She also draws on work in gender and film studies to probe the ways filmmakers, students, church leaders, local politicians, and the general public articulated national identity in relation to the challenges posed by military occupation, American commercial culture, and redefined gender roles. Thus highlighting the links between national identity and cultural practice, this book provides a richer picture of what German reconstruction entailed for both women and men.

Reconstructing the State

Reconstructing the State
Author: Gerald Easter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2000-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521660858

Using archival sources, this book presents an explanation for the rise and subsequent collapse of the Soviet state.

Reconstructing a National Identity

Reconstructing a National Identity
Author: Marsha L. Rozenblit
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2004
Genre: Austria
ISBN: 0195176308

This book explores the impact of war and political crisis on the national identity of Jews, both in the multinational Habsburg monarchy and in the new nation-states that replaced it at the end of World War I. Jews enthusiastically supported the Austrian war effort because it allowed them to assert their Austrian loyalties and Jewish solidarity at the same time. They faced a grave crisis of identity when the multinational state collapsed and they lived in nation-states mostly uncomfortable with ethnic minorities. This book raises important questions about Jewish identity and about the general nature of ethnic and national identity.

Reconstructing Identities

Reconstructing Identities
Author: Nandini Sinha Kapur
Publisher: Manohar Publishers
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788173047695

This monograph brings together essays on the marginal and elite social groups from early medieval times to the colonial period. It looks at tribal and agro-pastoral groups in Gujarat and Rajasthan such as the Bhils, Meenas and Bishnois in interactions with rural societies and their participation in the processes of state formation; their changing identities and self-perceptions, control of natural resources, environmental changes in the context of forests, agricultural expansion and water resources. Tribe-societal-state interactions meant long drawn-out negotiations involving alliances and conflicts leading to gradual marginalisation of tribal groups as limited peasantisation' and 'integration' went on. As a result, marginal communities reconstructed identities, made shifts in self-perceptions through adaptations from the Rajput/Brahmanical world and contested histories with ruling elite in the late medieval and early colonial times. The case studies of southern Rajasthan reveal that construction of water works in Jaisalmer area and control over environmental resources helped rural and ruling elite in maintaining a distinction for themselves in both early and late medieval times. On the other hand, common folk of the Thar desert, the Bishnoi agro-pastoralists carved out a special niche for themselves as Conservationists' by preaching a popular religion and socio-economic ethos of preserving the natural resources in an ecology of uncertainty'.