Breadwinning, migration, and nation-building: a critical scoping review of men, masculinities, and social change in post-Soviet Uzbekistan

The Kingdom of Hungary instituted the civil registry of births, marriages, and deaths in 1894. While the new institution was both eulogized and criticized as a major step in the separation of church and state and toward the creation of a modern, secular Hungary, it also opened up a new path for nation building. In this exceedingly multilingual and multinational country, churches often acted as proxies of cultural and political institutions for the national minorities. In the present article, I examine the specifically nation-building aspects embodied in the new regulation for the official use of first names that accompanied Act XXXIII of 1894 on the civil registry, and focus particularly on Romanian first names. Due to their considerable mismatch with Hungarian first names, Romanian names posed a special challenge to policy makers, and for this reason they demonstrate some less obvious dimensions of the changes instituted in 1894. The geographic parameters of this investigation have been imposed by the spatial framework of a wider research project on the interconnections among language, nationalism, and social change in the eastern part of Dualist Hungary, a territory encompassing Transylvania, the easternmost counties of contemporary Hungary proper (according to the administrative division created in 1876), and the eastern two-thirds of the Banat. This framework enables me to make comparisons with other ethnolinguistic groups, notably Transylvanian Saxons and the Catholic Germans of the Banat.

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Partha Nath Mukherji (1940–2021): The Scholar and His Scholarship

Sociological Bulletin ◽

10.1177/00380229211014671 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 003802292110146

Author(s):

N. Jayaram

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Change ◽

South Asian ◽

Research Methodology ◽

Nation Building ◽

Past President ◽

Building Research ◽

The Past ◽

The Social ◽

Sociological Society

This essay is a tribute to the memory of Partha Nath Mukherji (1940–2021), the past President of the Indian Sociological Society (2004–2005). After briefly tracing his scholarly career, it provides an overview of his sociological contributions spanning almost six decades. His oeuvre covered a variety of themes and issues, both empirical and theoretical, which can be categorised under the following rubrics: social movements and social change, sociology of agrarian relations, democratic decentralisation and panchayats, nationalism and nation-building, research methodology, indigenisation of the social sciences, regional (South Asian) sociology, and the question of approach and relevance in Indian sociology.

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Introduction

Becoming Landowners ◽

10.21313/hawaii/9780824856663.003.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Victoria C. Stead

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Papua New Guinea ◽

Social Relations ◽

Social Groups ◽

Nation Building ◽

New Guinea ◽

Multiple Modernities ◽

Recent Scholarship ◽

Timor Leste ◽

Ways Of Being

In Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste there are ways of being and belonging—customary and modern—that are fundamentally different but nonetheless intertwined in dynamic entanglements. These entanglements are being catalyzed by processes of globalization, state- and nation-building, and development. Both Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste are countries where customary forms of connection to land are central to lives, cultures, and identities. Conceptually, the chapter maps key trajectories in scholarly treatments of custom and modernity in anthropology and related disciplines, including recent scholarship on “multiple modernities.” It proposes a theorization of custom and modernity as ontologically distinct forms of social relations that cut across the boundaries of delimited social groups and are drawn into dynamic and shifting configurations. It is in this entangled multiplicity that we can best see the complexity and flux of global processes of social change.

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Unseen Political Spaces: Gender and Nationhood in the Berlin and Paris Fashion Press during the Franco-Prussian War

Journal of European Periodical Studies ◽

10.21825/jeps.v2i2.4812 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ruxandra Looft

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Change ◽

Critical Time ◽

Nation Building ◽

Women's Magazines ◽

The Public ◽

Shared History ◽

Broad Audience ◽

Time Period ◽

Public Versus Private

The fashion press, and women’s magazines in general, are presumed to be spaces of political neutrality preoccupied with the trivialities of domesticity. Yet it is these very spaces that more easily evade political scrutiny that are often most powerful in reaching a broad audience on matters of politics and social change. This article explores how two Berlin and Paris fashion periodicals participated in the international dialogue on gender, nation-building, patriotism, and consumerism during a critical time between these two nations, namely during the Franco-Prussian war (July 1870 - May1871). A look at images and texts published in the Berlin-based Der Bazar and the Paris-based La Mode Illustrée during this critical time period in their shared history reveals how the fashion press contributed in complex and meaningful ways to an evolving understanding of Self, nationhood, gender, and the public versus private in nineteenth-century Europe.

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Nation building and social change in the United Arab Emirates through the invention of Emirati cuisine

The Sociological Review ◽

10.1177/00380261211009090 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 69 (3) ◽

pp. 538-559

Author(s):

Eloísa Martín

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

United Arab Emirates ◽

Social Transformation ◽

Nation Building ◽

The Other ◽

Stages Of Development ◽

National Belonging ◽

Construction Of Identity ◽

Building Process ◽

National Cuisine

This article aims to analyse how the invention of a national cuisine in the United Arab Emirates takes part in the journey of building the nation, both as a metaphor and as performance of larger political and ideological processes. It analyses the discourses of chefs and professional cooks that are or have been tagged as Emirati food experts. In the Emirati nation building process, the construction of identity is not ‘defined by the other’ against which the image of a common ‘us’ should be reflected. This is also mirrored in the national cuisine in the making, which is developing mostly endogamously. Emirati food both participates in and tells the story of nation building in the UAE, through three overlapping stages of development: traditional, modern and fusion food, which correspond to different moments of the perceived nation development and its fit within Western definitions of both national-states and modernity. Emirati food also helps to create identity borders, by defining who is allowed to taste the authentic flavours, through practices of commensality, and who is able to replicate them in restaurants. This article highlights the connections between nation building, social transformation and food, and explores the ways in which constructions of Emirati cuisine reflect discourses and practices of national belonging.

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Constructing Commonality: Standardization and Modernization in Chinese Nation-Building

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021911812000666 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 71 (3) ◽

pp. 731-755 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Andrew B. Kipnis

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Built Environment ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Education System ◽

Nation Building ◽

Chinese Nation ◽

Building Process ◽

Communicative Practice ◽

The World

This essay examines the importance of Chinese nation-building in the contemporary era. Defining nation-building in terms of processes that help to bridge local differences especially but not only when also distinguishing China from the rest the world, I argue that a focus on globalization has masked the importance of Chinese nation-building to contemporary social change. I analyze three very different societal arenas in which national forms of commonality are being constructed: the consolidation of the education system, the expansion of the urban built environment, and the spread of the Chinese Internet. Though each arena illustrates a very different aspect of the nation-building process, they all result in an increased degree of commonality in lived experience and communicative practice across China.

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Sara Jeanette Duncan

10.1093/oso/9780199609932.003.0021 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Tiffany Johnstone

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Social Change ◽

Women's Literature ◽

Nation Building ◽

Gendered Identities ◽

The World ◽

Iconic Image ◽

The New Woman ◽

Sara Jeanette Duncan ◽

Anglo Indian

This chapter looks at Sara Jeanette Duncan. Throughout Duncan's prolific career, she wrote approximately twenty novels about early Canadian nation-building, transatlantic and Anglo-Indian cultures, and the New Woman. Duncan is hailed as a central figure of Canadian literature. While relatively under-analysed compared to her more well-known novels such as The Imperialist (1904), Duncan's early journalism and the Canadian section of her first novel A Social Departure: How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World by Ourselves (1890) illuminate her nuanced life-long inquiry into colonial and gendered identities. In A Social Departure, Duncan offers an iconic image of Canadian, transatlantic, and women's literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Ultimately, she presents herself as both an emblem of cultural progress and a catalyst for social change.

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