NELIDA FUCCARO, The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq, Library of Modern Middle East Studies, vol. 14 (London: I. B. Tauris, 1999). Pp. 246. $55 cloth.

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-465
Author(s):  
SARAH SHIELDS
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
British Mandate ◽  
Mandatory Rule ◽  
Collective Self ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
National Identity Formation

The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq offers an ambitious effort to reinterpret communal identities in Iraq during the British Mandate. Although this work focuses explicitly on Yazidis, Fuccaro engages the ongoing debate about the process of group identity formation in non-national states. In this monograph, Fuccaro argues that changing Yazidi communal identities are constructed within a broader context of government centralization, national identity formation, and British Mandatory rule. She shows that this context is crucial in understanding the reconstruction of Yazidi collective self-definitions.

scholarly journals La The problem of national identity formation in History teaching-learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Brito Román ◽  
Virginia Gámez Ceruelo
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
National History ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
The One ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
National Identity Formation

Mediante una comparativa entre dos momentos históricos: en un extremo la génesis, inicio y consolidación del sistema educativo ecuatoriano –1830-1941–, y en el otro: el período actual a partir de la Constitución del 2008, se analiza el discurso identitario construido en torno a la presencia del pueblo afroecuatoriano en relación al proyecto de Estado-nación en Ecuador. Los libros de texto de historia nacional y los documentos rectores del sistema educativo constituyen nuestra principal fuente de consulta. A partir de los discursos establecidos en ellos, argumentaremos en torno a las estrategias de invisibilización y negación del pueblo afroecuatoriano en las propuestas educativas, junto con la creación de una figura estereotipada del mismo.  Throughout a comparative method across two different periods in History: on the one hand the geneses and consolidation of the Ecuadorian educational system–1830-1940–, and on  the other hand the present times, since the Constitution of 2008, the discourse of identity built around the presence of afro people in Ecuador is analyzed. The schoolbooks of national History and the documents regarding the educational system are our main source of consultation.  From the discourses stablished in them, we will argue about the strategies for invisibilization and negation of afroecuadorians in educational proposals, along with the stereotypes around his image. 

scholarly journals The Middle East in Canadian foreign policy and national identity formation

2021 ◽  
pp. 002070202110493
Author(s):  
Jeremy Wildeman
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
Canadian Foreign Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Civilisation ◽  
National Identity Formation

While often overlooked, the Middle East has been a pivotal geographical and discursive space in Canadian foreign policy and national identity formation. The region was the birthplace of Canada’s liberal internationalist foreign policy identity, Pearsonianism, and the national myths associated with it. The Middle East also appears to be where Pearsonianism was later superseded by a more realist foreign policy approach, centred on key bilateral relationships with Western countries and a shared sense of Western civilisation. For reasons tied to identity formation and how Canadians perceive their place in the world, the Middle East is therefore a deeply contested space in the domestic arena and a site of deep divisions today. With the support of three contemporary case studies—Israel and Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and Iran—this paper explores how Canada’s ties to the Middle East have shaped and continue to shape Canada’s foreign policy, national identity, and place in the world.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Financial Returns ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
International Audience ◽  
National Identity Formation

The conclusion reaffirms the essential role played by cinema generally, and the coming-of-age genre in particular, in the process of national identity formation, because of its effectiveness in facilitating self-recognition and self-experience through a process of triangulation made possible, for the most part, by a dialogue with some of the nation’s most iconic works of literature. This section concludes by point out the danger posed, however, by an observable trend toward generic standardization in New Zealand films motivated by a desire to appeal to an international audience out of consideration for the financial returns expected by funding bodies under current regimes.

scholarly journals National Identity: Formation and Realisation Through Poetry

wisdom ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-161
Author(s):  
Tetiana URYS ◽  
Tetiana KOZAK ◽  
Svitlana BARABASH
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Effective Factor ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
Creative Personality ◽  
Important Means ◽  
The Individual ◽  
National Identity Formation

National culture, especially literature, contains invaluable nation-building potential and is an effective factor in influencing the development of the national identity of the individual and the ethnic group as a whole. In the process of forming literary works, the author’s consciousness and subconscious play an im­portant role, so they are not only one of the best ways of expressing a creative personality and a form of its reaction to events occurring in the outside world, but also one of the most important means of forming the national identity of the recipients. Therefore, such a literary work contains a modus of national identity. The main content of this concept in the literature is revealed in the article. Its theoretical components and their functional aspects in the text are defined and analysed. The modus of national identity is formulated as a way of realising the identity of one with his nation through certain aesthetic elements and structures at all levels of literary work as an artistic system. Such element-dominants are motives, artistic imagery, lyrical character as the main expression of the author’s thoughts, as well as archetypes, symbols and place names.

scholarly journals Learning National Identity Outside the Nation-State: the Story Of Latvian Primers (Mid-1940s – Mid-1970s)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iveta Ķestere ◽  
◽  
Baiba Kaļķe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
National Language ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
The Past ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
National Identity Formation

In order to understand how the concept of national identity, currently included in national legislation and curricula, has been formed, our research focuses on the recent history of national identity formation in the absence of the nation-state “frame”, i.e. in Latvian diaspora on both sides of the Iron Curtain – in Western exile and in Soviet Latvia. The question of our study is: how was national identity represented and taught to next generations in the national community that had lost the protection of its state? As primers reveal a pattern of national identity practice, eight primers published in Western exile and six primers used in Soviet Latvian schools between the mid-1940s and the mid-1970s were taken as research sources. In primers, national identity is represented through the following components: land and nation state iconography, traditions, common history, national language and literature. The past reverberating with cultural heritage became the cornerstone of learning national identity by the Latvian diaspora. The shared, idealised past contrasted the Soviet present and, thus, turned into an instrument of hidden resistance. The model of national identity presented moral codes too, and, teaching them, national communities did not only fulfill their supporting function, but also took on the functions of “normalization” and control. Furthermore, national identity united generations and people’s lives in the present, creating memory-based relationships and memory-based communities.

scholarly journals Procesy formowania narodów i tożsamości narodowej w Ameryce Łacińskiej

2016 ◽  
pp. 147-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kaganiec-Kamieńska
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Nation Formation ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
National Identity Formation

Nation and national identity formation in Latin America. Selected issues The history of nation formation in Latin America cannot be easily interpreted within the frames of existing theoretical perspectives, such as modernism. The difficulty lies in the fact that the existing theories only partly apply to this region. The aim of this article is to present the processes of nation and national identity formation in Spanish America until the 1950s pointing to its main characteristics and selected factors of the most significant impact. Procesy formowania narodów i tożsamości narodowej w Ameryce ŁacińskiejHistoria powstawania narodów w Ameryce Łacińskiej nie daje się jednoznacznie zinterpretować w ramach istniejących schematów i ujęć teoretycznych (np. modernizmu). Trudność polega na tym, że znajdują one jedynie częściowe zastosowanie w odniesieniu do Ameryki Łacińskiej. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie procesów tworzenia narodów i tożsamości narodowej w Ameryce hiszpańskiej do połowy XX w. z uwzględnieniem wybranych głównych cech tego procesu i czynników, które miały na niego wpływ.

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