National Identity, State Formation and Patriotism: the Role of History in the Public Mind

1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. D. Clark
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Public Mind ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Traditional Christian currents in the process of the newest national creation of Ukrainians

2007 ◽  
pp. 154-162
Author(s):  
R. Mykolayiv
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Scientific Assessment ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
National Formation

With the revival of Ukrainian statehood and the unfolding of the process of state formation, the problem of national identity of the citizens of Ukraine became especially urgent, because it is the main cementing element in the foundation of the new state-national formation. In view of this, it is important for Ukrainians to determine the level of significance of certain components of national identity. Therefore, in our article we will try to give a scientific assessment of the place and role of traditional Christian trends - Orthodoxy and Greek Catholicism - in the process of the newest Ukrainian national creation.

The Flapper and the Joven Moderna

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Cecilia Tossounian
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Construction ◽  
Traditional Female Role

Chapter 2 studies how the flapper, the archetypical modern girl, was construed by popular culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Mass media was engaged in a debate about the defining traits of the American flapper and her Argentine counterpart. While the flapper inhabited a distant land, the joven moderna combined popular fashions and mannerisms both foreign and domestic. Portrayed as an upper-class character, she went beyond the traditional female role of the devoted daughter. An oversimplified media construction, the Argentine flapper alerted the public of the dangerous effects of international consumer capitalism and Americanization on gender and national identity.

How Different are Assessments of Independence and Devolution Max? An Analysis of the Role of National Identity and Party Affiliation

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arno van der Zwet ◽  
Craig McAngus
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Performance Assessments ◽  
Great Length ◽  
Party Affiliation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Future Performance

Although the actual constitutional preferences of the Scottish public have been analysed at great length, the assessments of how different constitutional scenarios will perform in future have received little attention. This paper aims to address this by examining how well the public think an independent and a devolution max (DevoMax) Scotland will perform, looking specifically at the role of national identity and party affiliation. Factor analysis is used to construct a latent ‘performance assessment’ variable, and this latent variable is used extensively in the analysis. The paper finds that, on the whole, there is little difference between performance assessments of independence and DevoMax. However when considering national identity it can be seen that although Scottish identifiers by and large assess independence and DevoMax equally, strong British identifiers do not; they are considerably less negative about DevoMax. Furthermore, although the patterns of performance assessment are unsurprising in terms of party affiliation, Labour affiliates are, on the whole, more positive about the future performance of an independent Scotland than might have been expected. Furthermore, linear regression shows that the ‘identity’ variables have a more powerful effect on perceptions of independence than DevoMax. These findings suggest that an element of ‘heuristic shortcutting’ might be taking place.

scholarly journals The ideocratic state and national identity: the Serbian experience in the 20th century

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1/2020) ◽  
pp. 9-34
Author(s):  
Kosta Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
State Formation ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Potential Link ◽  
The Creation ◽  
First Time

Since the end of the second decade of the 21st century the Serbian people have been living on the ruins of Yugoslavia. In this country, formed over a century ago, the Serbs were united for the first time in their history, yet they gambled it away. How did this happen? While some interpretations emphasize the role of individuals, others give prevalence to structural elements. As a potential link between the two, this paper examines the influence different ideologies had on the creation of the Serbian identity in the 20th century and scrutinizes the role of these ideocratic tendencies in the process of nation building and state formation, as well as its integration and disintegration.

scholarly journals Constructing Modern Russian Identity Through Discourse Metaphors

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
Inna Skrynnikova ◽  
Tatyana Astafurova
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Public ◽  
Relevant Point ◽  
Mental Construct ◽  
Russian Identity

The current paper presents a comprehensive literature review of research into the phenomenon of Russian national identity and emphasizes the crucial role of discourse metaphor in narratives of national culture and identity. The latter, as a complex mental construct, encompasses common or similar beliefs or opinions internalized in the course of socialization as well as emotional attitudes, behavioural and linguistic dispositions. The paper claims that Russian patriotism-based national identity construction is directly related to the historical background, current political ideology, as well as objectives and tasks the state sets. Patriotic sentiments in Russia tend to boost due to some life-changing dramatic events or challenges the country has to face; this gives rise to employing a multitude of discursive practices, which rely heavily on discourse metaphors. The relevant point the paper proposes lies in the fact that discourse metaphors, being conceptually grounded, serve as a pervasive cognitive mechanism applied to explain a complex abstract concept of national identity. However, its meaning is still being shaped in relation to a particular period of time and the context where a debate is unfolding. Unlike conceptual metaphors that are considered to be universal, independent of time, discourse metaphors change or evolve within the ongoing discourse and are intended for specific purposes. The current paper seeks to demonstrate how particular metaphors can serve as discursive mechanisms of constructing the national identity to achieve both culturally and historically specific strategic purposes. The authors claim that a combination of co-occurring metaphors in the public discourse forms a holistic extended metaphorical narrative promoting a particular view of Russianness and focus on some of them.

scholarly journals Defining the Nation: National Identity in South Sudanese Media Discourse

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Frahm
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
South Sudanese ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
The Media

This article examines debates about national identity in the media landscape of post-referendum and post-independence South Sudan. Having never existed as a sovereign state and with its citizens being a minority group in Sudan, collective action among South Sudanese has historically been shaped in response to external pressures: in particular, the aggressive nation-building pursued by successive Khartoum governments that sought to Arabize and Islamize the South. Today, in the absence of a clear-cut enemy, it is a major challenge for South Sudan to devise a common identity that unites the putative nation beyond competing loyalties to ethnicity, tribe and family. Analysing opinion pieces from South Sudanese online media and placing them in the context of contemporary African nationalism, this article gives an initial overview of the issues that dominate the public debate on national identity: fear of tribalism and regionalism, commemoration of the liberation struggle, language politics, and the role of Christianity.

Alexis de Tocqueville on Political Science, Political Culture, and the Role of the Intellectual

1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 656-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Ceaser
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Important Determinant ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Public Mind ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
New Political Science

According to Tocqueville, the most important determinant of the character of any society is its political culture (moeurs). A political culture is shaped not only by sociological conditions and laws, but also, in modern times, by ideas propounded by intellectuals. In Tocqueville's day, two dominant schools of thought were contending for influence over the public mind in Europe: philosophe rationalism and traditionalism. Neither one of these schools, Tocqueville argued, promoted a political culture that could reconcile liberty and democracy. Tocqueville conceived his “new political science” as an alternative to these schools that could meet this challenge. Unlike the opposing schools, the new political science could not be propagated directly as an ideology. Its implementation relied on an indirect strategy—using institutions to inculcate certain “mental habits” among the citizens. This in turn called for ways of limiting the role of intellectuals in influencing political culture.

scholarly journals Skypeography. Investigating and mapping the public mind space of urbaness

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Maggie McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Public Mind ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Space

‘Skypeography: investigating and mapping the public mind space of urbaness’ is an overview of the public space of Skype. This article discusses how mediation by screens is creating new urban concepts across an emerging new spatial geography and its new sociologies and cartographies. It begins by tracing an overview from perceptions of ‘city’ to experiences of ‘urbaness’ and explores the role of screens in creating a mobile state of being and a conceptualization of urban public space as transient and paradoxical mind space. The paper argues that an appropriate urban lexicon or cartographic recording is yet to be developed in relation to the public space of screens. In an increasingly visualized world, art practice has a significant role to play in exploring and mapping urban transience, movement, rhythm and paradox that forms a state of ‘urbaness’. This article explores the concept of ‘Skypeography’ through the methods and aesthetics of artistic screen research practice undertaken in the fluid space of the SkypeLab research project. Key to the research is the project to identify 100 Questions emerging out of the practice of SkypeLab. Through its experimental approach in digital space, SkypeLab poses and exposes questions arising out of the practice, about urban space itself. Through both answers and questions, SkypeLab and its ‘Skypeography’ method contribute valuable knowledge towards an understanding of new conceptual territory within a profoundly changing urbanscape.

scholarly journals The exhibiting activities of the Circle of Ukrainian Art Figures in the mirror of the Ukrainian press of the 1920s

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-179
Author(s):  
Oksana Sereda
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Scientific Society ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Press ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

The article analyzes a work of the first interwar art association ― the Circle of Ukrainian Art Figures (HDUM) in the field of exhibition organization. It reveals the role of this society in consolidating the Ukrainian artists living and working in Western (Polish-controlled), and Great (Soviet) Ukraine. About 30 publications reflecting a reception of exhibitions of HDUM by critics and Lviv public have been introduced into scholarly circulation. A little-researched aspect is yet how creative efforts of the HDUM were received by its contemporaries, as well as by the Ukrainian press. Therefore our article aims to present the overview of activities of the association on the basis of content of the Ukrainian (mainly, Lviv) publications of the 1920s ― the newspapers «Hromadskyi Vistnyk», «Dilo», magazines «Literaturno-Naukovyi Vistnyk», «Mytusa», «Nova Ukraina», «Ukrayins’ke Mystetsvo». HDUM was founded in Lviv on 28 December 1921 thanks to an initiative of the well-known Lviv art critic Mykola Golubets’ and émigré artists Petro Kholodnyi (Elder) and Pavlo Kozhun. One of the key principles of the Society was to shape national identity in artists’ circles and ordinary citizens. Pursuing this aim, HDUM actively conducted exhibiting work. Specifically, every exhibition was followed by issuing a catalog. According to the press reports of that time, the first two Ukrainian art exhibitions took place in the halls of the Museum of Shevchenko Scientific Society. They received positive press coverage. All Ukrainian artists wishing to participate in these exhibitions were invited regardless of direction or art school they represented, as well as the HDUM affiliation. The next shows were on display in the halls of the National Museum. The public had felt some tension already during the third expo organization, and the next one didn’t match expectations of its organizers and wide public explicitly. Consequently, active initiatives of the association were gradually curtailed, although it formally continued to be operational yet for three years. Keywords: HDUM, exposition, press, publication, criticism, art.

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