Cultural Identity of the Non-Spain: A Case Study of the Cultural Policies of the Portuguese Estado Novo (‘New State’)

2018 ◽  
pp. 127-151
Author(s):  
Luís Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Policies

The Politics of a Memory Wound: Norwegian Exceptionalism and the Trauma of July 22, 2011

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110031
Author(s):  
E. Johanna Hartelius ◽  
Kaitlyn E. Haynal
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
National Imaginary ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Youth Camp ◽  
With Memory ◽  
Dual Case ◽  
Media Event

Following the July 22, 2011, Oslo bombing and shootings at the Utøya youth camp Norway became embroiled in a conflict over commemorative ethics. The memorial initially selected in an international contest, Memory Wound by Jonas Dahlgren, drew opposition from victims’ families and local residents for its severe impact on the natural landscape. Plans for installation were cancelled in 2017. This controversy, we submit, must be contextualized in relation to the Norwegian justice system’s handling of Anders Breivik, the perpetrator whose criminal proceedings were kept relatively secluded. We demonstrate how the design of Memory Wound and the suppression of Breivik’s publicity reflect a symbolic logic traceable to a national imaginary of Norwegian exceptionalism. By interpretively aligning the use of negative space in Memory Wound with the muting of Breivik as a media event, we investigate the prescriptive force of symbols to inculcate world views. Specifically, we attend to the foreclosure of “prosthetic memory,” which through media circulation allows people to engage with memory that is not primarily theirs. We acknowledge the possibility of empathy across difference that Landsberg ascribes to prosthetic memory; however, we insist that the circumstances under which solidarity might be rejected must be considered. With a dual case study, we offer a perspective on enduring assumptions about cultural identity and the rise of rightwing extremism in Northern Europe.

Cultural Identity and Continuity - Case Study of Authentic Conservation of Xi'an Bei Yuan Men Historic District

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 1840-1846
Author(s):  
Hong Yan Li ◽  
Fei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Development Mode ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Core ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Authentic Development ◽  
Corresponding Analysis

This paper discusses cultural identity and continuity of historic district based on the principle of authenticity in conservation field. The objective is to find out appropriate solutions for a historic district and to keep its special cultural value. It develops corresponding analysis in both physical aspects and cultural aspects, emphasizing the living feature of a historic district. The author advocates that it is significant to keep local residents living in the district since they are the cultural carriers and the core to conserve their cultural identity. The paper advocates an authentic development mode in historic district.

Identity, Beliefs, and Political Conflict

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giampaolo Bonomi ◽  
Nicola Gennaioli ◽  
Guido Tabellini
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Cultural Conflict ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Economic Shocks ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Policy Conflict ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Social Divide

Abstract We present a theory of identity politics that builds on two ideas. First, when policy conflict renders a certain social divide—economic or cultural—salient, a voter identifies with her economic or cultural group. Second, the voter slants her beliefs toward the stereotype of the group she identifies with. We obtain three implications. First, voters’ beliefs are polarized along the distinctive features of salient groups. Second, if the salience of cultural policies increases, cultural conflict rises, redistributive conflict falls, and polarization becomes more correlated across issues. Third, economic shocks hurting conservative voters may trigger a switch to cultural identity, causing these voters to demand less redistribution. We discuss U.S. survey evidence in light of these implications.

scholarly journals KEBERADAAN RAPA’I DABO’IH GRUP BUNGONG SITANGKEE SEBAGAI REPRODUKSI BUDAYA DI PERKAMPUNGAN BEKAS EVAKUAS CARE KORBAN PASCA TSUNAMI ACEH

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
Beni Andika ◽  
Fani Dila Sari
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Cultural Reproduction ◽  
Government Organization ◽  
Original Culture ◽  
City District

AbstrakKreativitas grup Bungong Sitangkee mempertunjukan Rapa’i Daboi’h merupakan upaya reproduksi budaya di perkampungan bekas pengungsian NGO (Non Goverment Organization) CARE di perkampungan Teurebeuh Kecamatan Kota Jantho Kabupaten Aceh Besar. Rapa’i Dabo’ih adalah seni pertunjukan atraksi yang menakjubkan. Seni pertunjukan ini digemari karena bentuk sajian pertunjukan Rapa’i Dabo’ih yang atraktif dengan debus sebagai puncak dari permainan yang disertai instrumen Rapa’i dengan lantunan syair-syair berisikan syiar agama Islam. Reproduksi budaya adalah proses mempertahankan identitas budaya yang dilakukan oleh masyarakat korban pascatsunami yang sudah tinggal menetap di area bekas pengungsian sebagai  pelestarian dan eksistensi kebudayaan asalnya. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengungkap keberadaan Rapa’i Daboih sebagai  reproduksi budaya yang terjadi di perkampungan CARE bekas pengungsian korban pascatsunami di Aceh 2004 lalu. Identifikasi reproduksi budaya ditinjau dari pemkanaan ulang seni pertunjukan Rapa’i Dabo’ih oleh Grup Bungong Sitangkee di Kecamatan Kota Jantho Kabupaten Aceh Besar. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif, pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui observasi dan mengamati pertunjukan dan wawancara. Hasil penelitian ini mengungkapkan bagaimana kebradaan reproduksi budaya dengan studi kasus Rapa’i Dabo’ih.Kata Kunci: rapa’i dabo’ih, reproduksi, budaya.AbstractThe Bungong Sitangkee group's creativity demonstrates Rapa 'i Daboi'h is an effort to reproduce culture in the CARE (Non Government Organization) in Teurebeuh village, JAntho City District, Aceh Besar District. Rapa’i Dabo’ih is an amazing performing arts performance. This performance art is favored because of the attractive form of the Rapa'i Dabo'ih show with debus as the culmination of the game accompanied by the Rapa'i instrument with the recitation of verses containing Islamic symbols. Cultural reproduction is the process of maintaining cultural identity carried out by post-tsunami victims who have settled in ex-refugee areas as a preservation and existence of their original culture. The purpose of this study is to uncover the existence of Rapa'i Daboih as a cultural reproduction that occurred in the CARE village of ex-refugee victims after the tsunami in Aceh in 2004. Identification of cultural reproduction is reviewed from the reopening of the Rapa 'i Dabo'ih performance by the Bungong Sitangkee Group in Kota Jantho District, Aceh Besar Regency. The method used is a qualitative method, data collection is done through observation and observing performances and interviews. The results of this study reveal how the existence of cultural reproduction with the Rapa'i Dabo'ih case study.  Keywords: rapa'i dabo’ih, reproduction, culture.  

scholarly journals “Zwischen allen Stühlen”: Reflections on Judaism in Germany in Victor Klemperer’s Post-Holocaust Diaries

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Sepp
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Jewish Origin ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
Soviet Occupation Zone

This article focuses as a case study on Victor Klemperer’s diaristic representation of German-Jewish identity and culture after 1945 in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR. The contribution shows how Klemperer’s professional and social situation remained very uncomfortable even in East Germany. For the diarist, the communist code ‘antifascist/fascist’, just like the code ‘German/un-German’ before it, was tantamount to concealing Jewish origin. His post-Holocaust journals provide an immediate insider’s view of Jewish life in Germany after the Holocaust from the perspective of a victim of active persecution. Against this backdrop, the contribution examines how the author’s original German nationalism gradually makes way, caught between contradictory impulses of assimilation and decreed Jewish identity, for a much more complex understanding of his own cultural identity. Klemperer’s diaries highlight a number of tensions that ultimately reflect on the disjunction between living and writing: The divide between a single and changing self lies at the heart of his diaries after 1945, which depict an astute, complex psychogram of the assimilated German-Jewish bourgeoisie that survived the Holocaust and tried to continue living in communist Germany.

scholarly journals The Myths Refugees Live By: Memory and history in the making of Bengali refugee identity

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
UDITI SEN
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Partition Of India ◽  
Refugee Experience

AbstractWithin the popular memory of the partition of India, the division of Bengal continues to evoke themes of political rupture, social tragedy, and nostalgia. The refugees or, more broadly speaking, Hindu migrants from East Bengal, are often the central agents of such narratives. This paper explores how the scholarship on East Bengali refugees portrays them either as hapless and passive victims of the regime of rehabilitation, which was designed to integrate refugees into the socio-economic fabric of India, or eulogizes them as heroic protagonists who successfully battled overwhelming adversity to wrest resettlement from a reluctant state. This split image of the Bengali refugee as both victim and victor obscures the complex nature of refugee agency. Through a case-study of the foundation and development of Bijoygarh colony, an illegal settlement of refugee-squatters on the outskirts of Calcutta, this paper will argue that refugee agency in post-partition West Bengal was inevitably moulded by social status and cultural capital. However, the collective memory of the establishment of squatters’ colonies systematically ignores the role of caste and class affiliations in fracturing the refugee experience. Instead, it retells the refugees’ quest for rehabilitation along the mythic trope of heroic and masculine struggle. This paper interrogates refugee reminiscences to illuminate their erasures and silences, delineating the mythic structure common to both popular and academic refugee histories and exploring its significance in constructing a specific cultural identity for Bengali refugees.

scholarly journals Theater against Borders: ‘Miunikh–Damaskus’—A Case Study in Solidarity

Arts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Ruba Totah ◽  
Krystel Khoury
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
Syrian Refugee ◽  
The City

In 2017, the City Theater of Munich engaged with a policy of diversity, and decided to include Syrian artists and create the Open Border Ensemble. A German and Syrian refugee and non-refugee cast produced the first performance, “Miunikh–Damaskus: Stories of one city” (May 2018). This mobile play aimed at minimizing stereotypes and deconstructing essentialist cultural identity prejudices. The paper examines how, in this case study, multilayered artistic strategies and relational dynamics came together to implement a ‘third space’. It addresses the challenges and implications of such theater endeavors regarding solidarity and the representation of the figure of the artists within the realm of the migration and refugee discourse.

Education for cultural identity: A Fiji case study

Prospects ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Unaisi Nabobo ◽  
Jennie Teasdale
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity
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