scholarly journals The Global Diffusion of Work-Injury Insurance: The Role of Spatial Networks and Nation Building

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-58
Author(s):  
Nate Breznau ◽  
Felix Lanver
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Work Injury ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Modern Welfare State ◽  
Nation State Formation

AbstractWork-injury law often marks the beginning of the modern welfare state and as we argue this type of insurance is particularly important to nation-state building: it placates myriad social groups needs and demands while binding them symbiotically with the state. We analyze any first laws and the first instance of social insurance as outcomes in 151 states (1880–2010). Our network diffusion and event history models reveal that spatial proximity and democratization are key predictors of first laws. However, nation-state formation and trade density are additional predictors of social insurance in particular. We conclude with implications of these findings for understanding nation-building within global networks.

scholarly journals The Global Diffusion of Work-Injury Insurance: The Role of Spatial Networks and Nation Building

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nate Breznau ◽  
Felix Lanver
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Spatial Networks ◽  
Work Injury ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Modern Welfare State ◽  
Nation State Formation

Work-injury law often marks the beginning of the modern welfare state. We argue that work-injury insurance is particularly important to nation state building: it placates myriad social groups’ while binding them symbiotically with the state. We analyze any first laws and first social insurance as outcomes in 150 states (1880-2010). Our network diffusion and event history models reveal that spatial proximity and democratization are key predictors of first laws. However, nation state formation and trade density are additional predictors of social insurance. We conclude with these findings’ implications for understanding nation building within global networks.

FROM ‘MIGRANTS’ TO ‘REFUGEES’: IDENTITY, AID, AND DECOLONIZATION IN NGARA DISTRICT, TANZANIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
JILL ROSENTHAL
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Nation State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nation State Formation ◽  
Local Narratives ◽  
International Aid Agencies

AbstractThis article argues that international aid to Rwandan refugees in Ngara district during decolonization unfolded as part of a broader project of nation-state formation and regulation – one that deeply affected local narratives of community and belonging. While there is an extensive scholarship on decolonization and nationalism, we know less about the history of the nation-state as a refugee-generating project, and the role of international aid agencies therein. The history of Rwandan refugees in Ngara district, Tanzania, reveals the constitutive relationship between nation-building and refugee experiences, illustrating that during decolonization local political imaginations congealed around internationally-reified categorizations of the ‘refugee’ and the ‘citizen’.

Imagined democracy? Nation-building and elections in Central Asia

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donnacha Ó Beacháin ◽  
Rob Kevlihan
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Weak States ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Central Asian Countries ◽  
Soviet Central Asia ◽  
Nation State Formation

Is an imagined democracy more important than actual democracy for nation-building purposes? After 20 years of independence, Central Asian countries present a mixed bag of strong and weak states, consolidated and fragmented nations. The equation of nation and state and the construction of genuine nation states remains an elusive goal in all of post-Soviet Central Asia. This paper examines the role that electoral politics has played in nation-state formation. We argue that electoral processes have been central to attempted nation-state building processes as part of efforts to legitimize authoritarian regimes; paradoxically in those few countries where (for brief periods) partial democratization actually occurred, elections contributed, at least in the short term, to nation-state fragmentation.

Those That Live by the Work of Their Hands: Labour, Ethnicity and Nation-State Formation in Nicaragua, 1850–1900

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUSTIN WOLFE
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Coffee Production ◽  
National Community ◽  
National Citizenship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Nation State Formation

This study examines the relationship between labour and nation in nineteenth-century Nicaragua by exploring how the state's institutional efforts to control labour coincided with a prevailing discourse of nation that idealised farmers (agricultores) and wage labourers (jornaleros and operarios) at opposite ends of the spectrum of national citizenship. The article focuses on the towns of the ethnically diverse region of the Prefecture of Granada, an area that included the present-day departments of Granada, Carazo and Masaya, and where coffee production first boomed in Nicaragua. It is argued that labour coercion rested not simply on the building of national, regional and municipal institutions of labour control, but also on defining the political and social role of labourers within the national community. At the same time, subaltern communities, especially indigenous ones, contested these efforts not merely through evasion and subterfuge, but by engaging the discourse of nation-state to claim citizenship as farmers and assert independence from landlords.

scholarly journals Towards a Neomedieval Urban Future: Neoliberal or Sustainable?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7298
Author(s):  
Kees Terlouw
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Urban Networks ◽  
Territorial States ◽  
Regulatory Challenges

The role of cities in the transformation of society is discussed. The growing importance of cities and their global networks undermine the nation state. This is a reversal of the development of the modern state which, over several centuries, increased its control over its territory and cities. Such changes have generated renewed interest in the Middle Ages. The relations between Medieval cities and territorial states were part of complex and shifting political arrangements, involving urban networks and overlapping claims to authority over territories. The general characteristics of prospective neomedieval political systems are discussed in more detail and applied to the regulatory challenges faced by neoliberalism and the transformation to a circular economy. The shift in the focus of neoliberal policy from the competitiveness of cities to that of metropolitan regions, with diverging urban and provincial interests hampers neomedievalist coordination. The cooperation between urban and provincial interests can however be realised in the transformation from a linear to a more circular economy, where metropolitan regions are well suited to accommodate the diverging aspects and forms of territorial regulation in a neomedievalist manner.

scholarly journals Whose game is this? An overview at the role of football in the construction of national identity

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Ivan Đorđević
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Transitional Country ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Ideal

In this paper I will consider the ways in which national identity is constructed through football, by analyzing different case studies foremost in the countries of Western Europe which are, in public narratives, signified as “developed”. I will attempt to point out the fact that, despite the weakening of the prerogative of the nation-state, the identity which refers to such a state is still strong, and that football is one of those cultural elements though which such identification is encouraged and supported. On the other hand, through analyzing the “nation building” through football project in countries which, supposedly represent the ideal for a transitional country like Serbia, in both the economic and political sense, it is my intent to point out that the ideology of nationalism and its instrumentalization in the media, such as that given in the examples, is by no means locally specific nor connected to so-called “insufficiently modernized societies”, where this term, in itself has the ideological weight in context – that we could thus refer to certain societies as “enough” or “completely” modernized. On the contrary, these models, more or less, function the same way everywhere, only they are historically determined, and greatly dependent on momentary power relations, or that which the dominant discourse in continual hegemonic struggles defines as the desirable image of “nation”, “economy” or anything else.

Modernity, Nationalism, and Civilizing the Arts

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-55
Author(s):  
Banu Karaca
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Art World ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
The Arts ◽  
German Art

Unsettling narratives on the purported alterity of Turkey and Germany, Chapter 1 discusses parallels and differences in German (1871) and Turkish nation-building (1923) and the role of art in claiming modern nationhood. It examines tropes of Turkey’s “belated modernity” and Germany’s Sonderweg as two discourses of exceptionalism that have significantly shaped the art world and asks what these tropes reveal and obscure. The young Turkish republic witnessed an enthusiastic embrace of artistic modernism, as Ottoman art was deemed unfit for the modern nation-state. In contrast, Germany officially decried modernism as decidedly “un-German.” It was only in the 1950s that the Federal Republic adopted explicitly occidental cultural policies to overcome longstanding anti-western and anti-modernist currents as part of its post-WWII rehabilitation. How can one explain the persisting asymmetry in the perception of Turkish and German art, given that Turkey’s attempt to align itself with Western modernity by rationalizing artistic expression in the 1920s predates West-Germany’s shift to occidental cultural policies that were only established after 1945? The controversies surrounding “national art” and continued anxieties regarding modern belonging discussed in this chapter show how ideas of modernity and civility remain indebted to processes of violence that art must always disavow.

Nation Building

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Yael Tamir
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Administrative Service ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Outcomes ◽  
The Way

This chapter investigates what makes nations so powerful and special. It presents two reasons that come to mind: one obvious the other unexpected. The obvious one is institutional and relates to the alliance between the nation and the state. The unexpected, more surprising, reason concerns the fact that the very same features that make nations attractive allies of the modern state — namely, being natural, historical, and continuous entities — are mostly fabricated. The chapter also explores the way nationalism shaped the modern state and provided it with tools necessary to turn from an administrative service into a caring entity that takes on itself not merely the role of a neutral coordinator but also that of a compassionate and attentive mother(land). Ultimately, the chapter examines the social and political outcomes of the lean state and ponders whether some of the advantages of the nation-state could be recovered.

scholarly journals A New Dawn in Nationalism Studies? Some Fresh Incentives to Overcome Historiographical Nationalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Storm
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Nation State ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Nation State Formation

Nationalism studies does not seem to be a very innovative field of research. The path-breaking views of Anderson, Gellner and Hobsbawm – all published in 1983 – still form the starting point for almost all existing investigations. Moreover, most recent studies focus on one national case, which implicitly results in a vast collection of ‘unique’ trajectories. However, over the last few years a number of highly original studies on the origins of nationalism, nation-state formation, banal nationalism, methodological nationalism and nation-building in a global perspective seem to announce a new dawn. Some of these refreshing interpretations – which will be discussed in this article – clearly demonstrate that historiographical nationalism still has a preponderant role in history writing. In the concluding paragraphs I will emphasize the need to overcome not only methodological nationalism, but also the terminological and normative nationalism that still dominates our discipline.

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