Globalisation, Cultural Identity and Nation-Building

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Nation Building

Exploring the Diversity of Religion

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-66
Author(s):  
Arkotong Longkumer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Alternative Route ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
The North

This article considers the importance of “religion” and “identity” in the process of fieldwork in the North Cachar Hills, Assam, India. The political sensitivities in the region provided a difficult context in which to do fieldwork. This is chiefly because of the various armed insurrections, which have arisen as a consequence of the complicated remnants of British colonialism (1834–1947), and the subsequent post-independence challenge of nation building in India. This article raises important methodological questions concerning fieldwork and the relational grounding of the fieldworker relative to the inside/outside positions. It reflects on these issues by discussing the Heraka, a Zeme Naga religious movement. Their ambiguity and “in-between” character accommodates both the “neo-Hindu” version of a nation or Hindutva (Hinduness) and the larger Naga (primarily Christian) assertion of their own cultural and religious autonomy. The Heraka provides an alternative route into ideas of nationhood, religious belonging and cultural identity.

scholarly journals Archaeology and the State

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Brown
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
World View ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
State Control ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public World

Archaeology is a powerful tool for the provision of a cultural identity to a population. This same power often makes it also the target of manipulation by a state in the process of nation-building. This paper will study the darker political nature of archaeology by examining the effects of state-control over archaeological resources and research, in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The aim of this paper is to highlight the dangers posed to the public world- view of a nation in which the only accepted interpretation of the classical past is that of the Party.

scholarly journals Fair terms of integration in a liberal framework

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kim
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Will Kymlicka ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
The Common ◽  
Ethnic Nation

This essay conceptualized the integration of immigrants vis-à-vis a liberal state's nation-building practices, which heavily condition and configure the terms of integration. It focuses on Canada which has engaged in two kinds of nation building: ethnic nation building which creates a political community based on the reproduction of a particular ethnonational identity, and civic nation building which aspires to a political community based on common principles and is thought to be culturally neutral. Fair terms of integration need to begin with how nation building practices are necessarily built into the structure of a liberal state and privilege citizens. Immigrant multiculturalism as proposed by liberal theorist, Will Kymlicka is one way for liberalism to achieve fair terms of integration in light of nation building; however, it is ill equipped to deal with the complexity of cultural identity and because it leaves the common societal cultural intact.

scholarly journals Chinese Diasporic Culture and National Identity: The Taming of the Tiger Balm Gardens in Singapore

2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIANLI HUANG ◽  
LYSA HONG
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Theme Park ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Migrant Community ◽  
State Initiatives ◽  
History Of

The Tiger Balm Gardens or Haw Par Villa, built in the 1930s by overseas Chinese pharmaceuticals tycoon Aw Boon Haw, has been and remains a symbol of the positioning of Singapore's Chineseness. In the colonial era, it marked the success not only of one man but also of the Chinese migrant community. In the later period of nation-building, it was initially considered as a challenge to multiracialism and nationhood. However, as state policy shifted towards an ethnicized cultural identity as prompted by the rise of Asia as a major economic force, especially China, the Villa was renovated first into an orientalized theme park and then resuscitated as the repository of diasporic Chinese entrepreneurship. Amidst these state initiatives, the history of the Villa and its founder were sidelined.

scholarly journals Fair terms of integration in a liberal framework

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kim
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Will Kymlicka ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
The Common ◽  
Ethnic Nation

This essay conceptualized the integration of immigrants vis-à-vis a liberal state's nation-building practices, which heavily condition and configure the terms of integration. It focuses on Canada which has engaged in two kinds of nation building: ethnic nation building which creates a political community based on the reproduction of a particular ethnonational identity, and civic nation building which aspires to a political community based on common principles and is thought to be culturally neutral. Fair terms of integration need to begin with how nation building practices are necessarily built into the structure of a liberal state and privilege citizens. Immigrant multiculturalism as proposed by liberal theorist, Will Kymlicka is one way for liberalism to achieve fair terms of integration in light of nation building; however, it is ill equipped to deal with the complexity of cultural identity and because it leaves the common societal cultural intact.

Dress and National Identity: Women’s Clothing and the Celtic Revival

Costume ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Ward
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Practical Solution ◽  
Women's Clothing ◽  
Celtic Revival ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Women's Dress

This paper will focus on an interesting diversion in the history of dress in Ireland: the story of clothing and the Irish cultural revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It will endeavour to address the ideology of so-called Irish costume, and how it was intended to be a visual symbol of an Irish renaissance, one which would help in the effort to counter British influences and establish a strong cultural identity. Although Celtic Revival clothing was worn by both men and women as a signifier of cultural and political sympathies, this paper will look specifically at women’s dress and attempts to promote Irish costume as a tool for nation building, and as a practical solution to the wearing of imported fashions. It will highlight just some examples of where, when and by whom Celtic Revival dress was worn.

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