The Communication Role of the ‘Imagined Communities’ in the Promotion of International Events

2016 ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Androniki Kavoura ◽  
Damianos P. Sakas
Keyword(s):  
Imagined Communities ◽  
International Events

Netzwerk, Bruderschaft, Zelle Die Rolle von Geschlecht und Gewalt bei der Formierung neuer religionspolitischer Gruppen in ,Okzident' und ,Orient'

2006 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-132
Author(s):  
Ulrike Brunotte
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
European Regions ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
New Wars ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Comparative Examination

AbstractTaking as a starting point the reality of a worldwide return of religion in the cultural and political spheres, the article undertakes a comparative examination of the role of gender metaphors and performance in building of new religious groups as "imagined communities". These groups have increasingly taken the form of fundamentalist and Islamist networks, especially in non-European regions including the United States, and in the context of ,,new wars."

scholarly journals ROLE OF ISLAM IN MALAYSIA’S PUBLIC DIPLOMACY: ABDULLAH BADAWI ADMINISTRATIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Nur Fareha
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Perception ◽  
International Events

This paper investigates the role of Islam in Malaysia’s as a reform on soft power tools under the leaderships of Malaysia’s fifth Prime Minister, Tun Abdullah Badawi. The study emphasis the reform in policy making, philosophies and approaches of the premiers in developing an understanding of the importance of Islam’s role in Malaysia’s public diplomacy. The research also determines the influence of international events in the public diplomacy policies. The study takes a constructivist approach and includes faith diplomacy into the realm of public diplomacy. This study has achieved its objective of understanding Islamic public diplomacy in Malaysia’s administration and should be useful for developing future policies of public diplomacy for domestic and international consumption. It is an interesting reflection of this study that the common perception that Abdullah’s public diplomacy was not successful is incorrect; this perception is founded on the labelling that Abdullah’s version carried, which is because Abdullah, true to his character and personality, embraced and enriched previous premiership Islamization principles, without wanting to change them. Though there are arguments as discussed that Islam Hadhari declined, it only declined in the domestic context. In the international arena it appealed to a much wider audience.

scholarly journals El Protocolo como herramienta efectiva en las Relaciones Internacionales. Análisis del caso de Andorra en la crisis sanitaria del Covid-19 | The Role of Protocol as an effective tool in the International relations. Analysis of the Andorran Case in the health crisis of the Covid-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (13) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Beatriz Blanc Uclés
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Sociedad Del Conocimiento ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
International Events

Vivimos en un mundo globalizado en el que los avances tecnológicos y la sociedad del conocimiento permite relacionarnos con las más variadas culturas y sociedades. En este sentido, las relaciones entre Estados han experimentado en los últimos años una destacada evolución en la que, indudablemente, la gestión del protocolo y la diplomacia juegan un papel esencial con el objetivo de favorecer la imagen, la credibilidad y la confianza entre países.Este artículo tiene como objetivo demostrar cómo el protocolo puede ser una herramienta efectiva ante acontecimientos de crisis. Para ello trataremos de explicar cómo una correcta aplicación del protocolo, a modo de red invisible, se convierte en un elemento facilitador en las relaciones internacionales gracias a la participación de los países en organizaciones internacionales, como ocurrió en el caso de Andorra durante la crisis sanitaria del Covid-19 en el marco de las reuniones entorno a la Cumbre Iberoamericana Andorra 2020._______________________We live in a globalised world where the technological advances and the society of knowledge enable us to relate with the most varied cultures and societes. In this sense, the relations among states have experimented relevant changes in the recent years. There is no doubt that the protocol and diplomacy have played a determinant role with the aim of fostering the image, credibility and confidence among the countries that participate in the international events .This article is aimed at proving how the protocol can be an effective tool in the moments of crisis. The correct practice of protocol, as invisible net, can be a great enabler in the international relations by the participation of countries in international organizations. As an example, the case of Andorra at the beginning of the health crisis caused by the Covid-19 will be analysed in the context of the Iberoamerican Summit Andorra 2020.

The Origins of Ethnic Consciousness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Lange
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Ethnic Consciousness ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
Strong Attachment

This chapter examines the origins of ethnic consciousness, with particular emphasis on the rise of powerful ethnic consciousnesses shared by large numbers of strangers. It first considers the propensity to categorize people into ingroups and outgroups as well as factors that contributed to the rise of new and abstract conceptualizations of community, including citizenship. It then explores the role of the states, education, and religion in creating imagined communities of strangers and in molding and popularizing ethnic consciousness. It also discusses the micro-dynamics and context of ethnic frameworks and concludes with the argument that ethnic consciousness is a necessary condition for ethnic violence because it divides the world into ethnic categories and fosters strong attachment to ethnicity.

Remaking memory and the agency of the aesthetic

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-23
Author(s):  
Ann Rigney
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article examines the role of the creative arts in renegotiating the border between memorable and unmemorable lives. It does so with specific reference to the (un)forgetting of the colonial soldiers in European armies during World War One. Focussing on the role of aesthetic form in generating memorability, it shows how the creative use of a medium can help redefine the borders of imagined communities by commanding the attention of individual subjects and hence providing conditions for a cognitive and affective opening to the memory of strangers. It concludes that future studies of transformations in collective memory should take a multiscalar approach which takes into account both the shifting social frameworks of memory and the small changes that occur in the micro-politics of viewing and reading.

Sport and National Identity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilwyn Porter
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the role of sport in the construction of national identity. It focuses initially on sport as a cultural practice possessing the demonstrable capacity to generate events and experiences through which imagined communities are made real. The governments of nation-states or other political agencies might intervene directly in this process, using sport as a form of propaganda to achieve this effect. More often, however, the relationship between sport and national identity is reproduced in everyday life, flagged daily by the mass media as an expression of banal nationalism. Particular attention is given to the role of sports that are indigenous to particular nations and also to sports engaged in competitively between nations. These have contributed in different ways to the making of national identities.

The Missing Religious Factor in Imagined Communities

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (10) ◽  
pp. 1395-1414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Tiryakian
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Weak States ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Religious Factor ◽  
New Social Order

Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities has redrawn understanding of the loci and agents of modern nationalism. Whereas standard interpretations had privileged the movements of modernity of Western nation-states, Anderson’s analysis gave priority to the role of peripheral elites in “imagining the nation” beyond the boundaries of the everyday world. What Anderson leaves out altogether in his seminal study is the bearing of the religious factor in various peripheral settings in such regions as sub-Sahara Africa and East Asia. This article, extending Max Weber’s notion of charismatic leadership, proposes that in concrete cases of “colonial situations” in Africa and in two East Asian countries of weak states, religio-political figures arose seeking a new social order that had mass appeal. Their successes and failures should be seen as integral comparative aspects of nationalism and modernity

scholarly journals Firmer Roots of Ethnicity and Nationalism? New Historical Research and Its Implications for Political Science

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 564-570
Author(s):  
Kurt Weyland
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Political Choice ◽  
Nationalist Movements ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Flexible Boundaries

Among social scientists, constructivism has long reigned supreme in the study of ethnicity, nationality, and nationalism. Accordingly, scholars have highlighted the role of cultural framing and political choice in the definition of ethnic categories, their fluidity, and their flexible boundaries. Conversely, they have deemphasized the historical roots of ethnicity and depicted nations as the contested products of nationalist movements and political leaders and as (merely) “imagined communities” (Anderson 1991). Although constructivism encompasses a broad gamut of theories that differ in the malleability ascribed to ethnicity (Chandra 2012, 19–22, 139–49), recent authors have emphasized its susceptibility to change by highlighting manipulation by political-electoral entrepreneurs (Wilkinson 2012) and focusing on “identity in formation” (Laitin 1998), “ethnicity without groups” (Brubaker 2004), and “imagined noncommunities” characterized by “national indifference” (Zahra 2010).

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