The present research utilizes a cultural psychological perspective and considers the extent to which representations of history reflect and promote identity-relevant concerns (i.e., national identification, perceptions of present-day injustice in Indian society). Across four stu…
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Representing the Unpresentable attempts to show that late Qajar Iran was a furiously turbulent era, with the introduction of modern technology, and new ways of imagining the state and religion. Iran's sense of its national identity was also in turmoil. This turbulence articulate…
France, like its European neighbors, is struggling to integrate a diverse set of immigrants and their descendants. From public debates over national identity to bans on Muslim headscarves, immigration is at the forefront of public discourse on what it means to be French today. A…
One aspect of children's and adolescents' sense of self is their awareness of their collective (ethnic, national, and religious) identity. Western stage models for racial and ethnic identity development in American youth of color do not account for the development of Palestinian…
Critics have systematically overlooked contributions to the realms of fantasy and imagination by Spanish artists and writers. When studying the fantastic, even the most attentive studies have been biased by predetermined expectations. While theoreticians such as Tzvetan Todorov …
This dissertation considers the question of Jewish ethnic politics in Argentina under the Peronist regime from 1946–1955. Like other Latin American populists, Perón combined a corporatist conception of the state with ideals of popular democracy and social mobilization throughout…
This dissertation is based on data collected through informal conversations, formal interviews, and participant observation at community events over sixteen months of fieldwork with Arab Canadians living in Ottawa, Ontario. Most literature on Canadian national identity focuses o…
Identity—national and cultural—forms the thematic backbone of the Puerto Rican essay canon. When reading this canon it seems that this island "nation" suffers from insularism and docility, to cite its most famous essayists. Yet a new zeitgeist arrives on the essay scene in the 1…
In the wake of urban riots and terror attacks in the United Kingdom, British public debate and policy have focused on the nation's immigrant communities. These debates have commonly called into question whether immigrant communities in Britain are sufficiently integrated into "m…
Increased immigration finds children in a quandary to develop an identity consolidating their multiple locales and cultures. Additionally, the internet is highly integrated into children's lives and plays a consequential role in their identity formation processes. "Local culture…
Historians have shown how, in the last third of the nineteenth century, the language of patriotism and national identity was appropriated by the political right. It has been all too easily assumed that after this they held a monopoly on such language. However, the British left d…
The thesis explores the geopolitical imaginations of Afghanistan within major political parties in Germany and the influential news magazine Der Spiegel. It seeks to identify assumptions regarding the territory, identity, sovereignty and security of Afghanistan and Germany in pa…
Sociological theorists conventionally see national identity as 'shaped' by large-scale social institutions that operate across a national territory. In this context national identity is a collective phenomenon produced by generic processes of cultural and political socialization…
This study investigates differences in the public discourse regarding national identity and language policy issues in the Kazakh-language and Russian-language realms, by analyzing newspaper coverage of these issues. I illustrate how the usage of two languages in the country's me…
This paper examines the question of what it means to be German. Its goal is to show a historic comparison between what was published in the 19 th -century and what has changed since the end of WWII. The basis of the first part will be, among others, Richard Wagner's article "Was…
Using critical exploration method (Duckworth, 2006) and constructivist grounded theory approach (Charmaz, 2003), this in-depth qualitative research explores older Ethiopian elementary school children's conceptualization of their national identity. Twelve children between the age…
This thesis is a study of the ways in which historical portrayals of World War II are used to promote national identity construction in America. The first chapter will detail the promotion of American exceptionalism by the 2008 game “Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway” and the way…
In this dissertation, I investigate some of the different issues that filmmakers in North African national and diasporic cinemas focus on. I examine the representation of women in films produced in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, in an effort to show the tools filmmakers use in o…
This thesis is an examination of Palestinian women's roles and agency in creating and reinforcing Palestinian national identity. This is done by interviewing approximately 30 women, as well as observing and participating in daily life amongst Palestinian refugees. Women are an i…