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Nation work: Asian elites and national identities
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What happens to the nation when it is reconceived as a brand? How does nation branding change the terms of politics and culture in a globalized world? This book offers a unique critical perspective on the power of brands to affect how we think about space, value, and identity.
Through the lens of Jewish experience in Brazil, based on the author's ethnographic fieldwork, 'Kosher Feijoada' takes an oblique look at racial, ethnic, and national identities, and considers the meaning of belonging for a group defined as diasporic, intertwining ethnic, nation…
Creating citizenship in the nineteenth-century South
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An edited collection resulting from four international conferences held between 2008 and 2010 on the theme of citizenship in the nineteenth-century American South
An edited collection resulting from four international conferences held between 2008 and 2010 on the theme of citizenship in the nineteenth-century American South.
"This unique book provides a critical perspective on identity to question how Israeli Jews manage and manifest their concern for the Palestinian Other, eschewing presenting identities as concrete and, rather, examining their creation through discourse. Considering the constructi…
"This study explores the role played by collective perceptions of the past in constructing, maintaining, and challenging views of citizenship and national identity while taking divergent visions of the past seriously. It seeks to understand how much of the disparity in the way c…
Immigration and national identities in Latin America
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Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, an influx of Europeans, Asians, and Arabic speakers indelibly changed the face of Latin America. While many studies of this period focus on why the immigrants came to the region, this volume addresses how the newcomers help…
This volume examines the development of the 'way of the samurai' bushidō which is popularly viewed as a defining element of the Japanese national character and even the 'soul of Japan' - to provide an overview of modern Japanese social, cultural, and political history.
Europe’s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and …
