Nationalist Myths And Ethnic Identities
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Author | : Natividad Gutierrez |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2015-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803288603 |
This timely study examines the processes by which modern states are created within multiethnic societies. How are national identities forged from countries made up of peoples with different and often conflicting cultures, languages, and histories? How successful is this process? What is lost and gained from the emergence of national identities? Natividad GutiƩrrez examines the development of the modern Mexican state to address these difficult questions. She describes how Mexican national identity has been and is being created and evaluates the effectiveness of that process of state-building. Her investigation is distinguished by a critical consideration of cross-cultural theories of nationalism and the illuminating use of a broad range of data from Mexican culture and history, including interviews with contemporary indigenous intellectuals and students, an analysis of public-school textbooks, and information gathered from indigenous organizations. GutiƩrrez argues that the modern Mexican state is buttressed by pervasive nationalist myths of foundation, descent, and heroism. These myths--expressed and reinforced through the manipulation of symbols, public education, and political discourse--downplay separate ethnic identities and work together to articulate an overriding nationalist ideology. The ideology girding the Mexican state has not been entirely successful, however. This study reveals that indigenous intellectuals and students are troubled by the relationship between their nationalist and ethnic identities and are increasingly questioning official policies of integration.
Author | : Jan Herman Brinks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Mass media |
ISBN | : 9786000010454 |
Author | : Anthony D. Smith |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780198296843 |
Nations and nationalism remain powerful phenomena in the contemporary world. Why do they continue to inspire such passion and attachments? Myths and Memories of the Nation explores the roots of nationalism by examining the myths, symbols and memories of the nation through a 'ethno-symbolic' approach. The book reveals the continuing power of myth and memory to mobilise, define and shape people and their destinies. It examines the variety and durability of ethnic attachments and national identities, and assesses the contemporary revival of ethnic conflicts and nationalism. The book analyses the depth of ethnic attachments and the persistence of nations to this day.
Author | : Martin Bulmer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2014-01-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 131799566X |
Nationalism and nationalist ideas are a major force in the contemporary world. This volume brings together original papers from a number of countries dealing both with theories and case studies of particular national contexts. Taken together, these papers shed light on the processes through which nationalist sentiments and ideas are articulated and given social and political meaning in specific situations. They cover a broad range of different kinds of nationalist movements and ideologies, using a variety of theoretical perspectives and based on varying empirical methodologies. The cases covered include a comparison of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the North Caucasus, the role of religion in nationalist sentiment in Spain, ethnicity and nationalism in Turkey, Basque nationalism, the Basque diaspora across the Atlantic, the patrimonial state and inter-ethnic conflict in Nigeria, and nationalist movements in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Though this is the empirical focus, all chapters raise relevant theoretical questions and challenge differing approaches to the phenomenon of nationalism in the social sciences. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Author | : S. Malesevic |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2006-10-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230625649 |
Despite profound disagreement on whether identities are essential or existential, primordial or constructed, singular or multiple, there is little dispute over whether identities exist or not. In this provocative study, Sinisa Malesevic interrogates the unproblematic use of concepts of identity, and in particular national or ethnic identity.
Author | : Jaroslav Hroch (ed) |
Publisher | : Crvp |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Simon Halink |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004398430 |
This anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities, explores the various ways in which northern mythologies have been employed in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present.
Author | : Colin Kidd |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1999-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139425722 |
Inspired by debates among political scientists over the strength and depth of the pre-modern roots of nationalism, this study attempts to gauge the status of ethnic identities in an era whose dominant loyalties and modes of political argument were confessional, institutional and juridical. Colin Kidd's point of departure is the widely shared orthodox belief that the whole world had been peopled by the offspring of Noah. In addition, Kidd probes inconsistencies in national myths of origin and ancient constitutional claims, and considers points of contact which existed in the early modern era between ethnic identities which are now viewed as antithetical, including those of Celts and Saxons. He also argues that Gothicism qualified the notorious Francophobia of eighteenth-century Britons. A wide-ranging example of the new British history, this study draws upon evidence from England, Scotland, Ireland and America, while remaining alert to European comparisons and influences.
Author | : Geoffrey A. Hosking |
Publisher | : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
In this volume, a group of specialists look at the general and theoretical nature of myth on a universal basis, and examine the specific myths of various nations. The aim is to try and illuminate the deeper, underlying issues of nationalism that cause so much conflict throughout the world.
Author | : Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253215703 |
The contributors to this study critically de-construct Albanian myths and offer insights into Albanian history and politics. They conclude with contemporary Albanian critiques of the origins and functions of Albanian politics and ideologies.