Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Lecours
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
National Community ◽  
South Tyrol ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

The strength of secessionism in liberal democracies varies in time and space. Inspired by historical institutionalism, this book argues that such variation is explained by the extent to which autonomy evolves in time. If autonomy adjusts to the changing identity, interests, and circumstances of an internal national community, nationalism is much less likely to be strongly secessionist than if autonomy is a final, unchangeable settlement. Developing a controlled comparison of, on the one hand, Catalonia and Scotland, where autonomy has been mostly static during key periods of time, and, on the other hand, Flanders and South Tyrol, where it has been dynamic, and also considering the Basque Country, Québec, and Puerto Rico as additional cases, this book puts forward an elegant theory of secessionism in liberal democracies: dynamic autonomy staves off secessionism while static autonomy stimulates it.

“To engraft ourselves on foreign stocks”: Byron’s Poetics of Acculturation

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Schoina
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Mary Shelley ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Crossing Over ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Culture Acquisition

Abstract Considering the largely unacknowledged connection between Byron and Mary Shelley on the logistics which pertain to the experience of crossing-over cultures, this paper investigates the notion of authentic Italianisation as exemplified in their related texts, and discusses its problematics in the context of the dominant themes and preoccupations in Romantic culture. Thus, on the one hand, my paper examines how the Romantic anticipation of being immersed in local culture and of “going native” is articulated – or rather, performed – by Byron himself, by considering specific rhetorical strategies and figures of filiation he used to ground his relationship to Italian place. More specifically, I contend that although Byron’s polymorphic identification to Italian place is constructed in the imagination, it is also grounded in time- and space-bound actions and involves a structure of social relations. On the other hand, the paper delineates how Byron’s idiosyncratic immersion into Italianness is theorised by Mary Shelley and counted on as a model of second culture acquisition.

scholarly journals Narrativa e discurso através da “Montagem” fotográfica

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayara Fior Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Film Editing ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Post Production ◽  
The One

In photograph the association of images occurs in sequential photographs, photographic series, essays or in in selecting photos to exhibition through photo books, galleries, installations, etc. The film, on the other hand, consists in slices of time and space, that united and organized through the montage can generate a narrative.The process of photographic post-production, the one that starts in the instant after the click, can be closely compared to the montage and post-production film process, once the union of two or more images generates a new meaning, different from the isolated meaning of each one. This idea can be used both in the film editing, as well in the conception of photographic narratives.And this is what paper proposes, reflect about the correlations between the cinematographic montage and photographs selection for the narratives construction.In cinema montage theory there are some extremely important theorists and directors that can be availed when we think about photographic “montage” and the discourse construction through the association of images. In this way the text approaches some the most important directors and theorists of film editing, seeking to reflect about their methods and how they can be applied in the photographic “montage” and how they can contribute to expand photography narrative possibilities through the images association to generate new discourses.

scholarly journals 'Ek is besig om iemand heeltemal anders te word ...': die ontginning van liminaliteit in Vaselinetjie deur Anoeschka von Meck

Literator ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Van Zyl
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Pure Possibility ◽  
Liminal Spaces ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Children's Home ◽  
The One

'I am becoming someone completely different …': the utilisation of liminality in Vaselinetjie (Little Vaseline) by Anoeschka von Meck The concepts of liminality, transition and borders are utilised extensively in “Vaselinetjie” by Anoeschka von Meck (2004). This is especially the case regarding her use of characterisation, focalisation, time and space (including place and landscape) in the construction of identity. As a liminal character, Vaseline finds herself in different kinds of liminal spaces on a regular basis, like the children’s home, which is foregrounded in the novel, as well as in consecutive preliminal, liminal and postliminal phases. The children’s home is an essentially liminal space, but from the perspective of Vaseline it is firstly gradually transformed into a place to which meaning is attached, and secondly to a landscape of belonging, as she expresses her solidarity with the scorned group of children in the home. On the one hand the children’s home is characterised by a certain liminal essence, but on the other hand it can be regarded as “a realm of pure possibility” (Turner, 1967:97).

scholarly journals From militant voices to militant irony: Examining identity, memory and conflict in the Basque country

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 548-558
Author(s):  
Ignacio Brescó de Luna
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Plural Societies ◽  
The One ◽  
Basque Conflict

Collective memory and identity so often go hand in hand with conflicts. Alongside the use of violence, conflicts unfold against the backdrop of different narratives about the past through which groups constantly remind themselves of the supposed origin of the conflict, and consequently, what position individuals are expected to take as members of the group. Narratives – as symbolic tools for interpreting the past and the present, as well as happenings that have yet to occur – simultaneously underpin, and are underpinned by, the position held by each warring faction. Drawing on previous works, this paper compares different versions of the 2016 truce period in the Basque Country stemming from three subjects identified, to varying degrees, with the main political actors involved in that conflict. These three cases have been selected from a total of 16 participants who were asked to define the Basque conflict and to provide an account of the 2006 truce period by using 23 documents taken from different Spanish newspapers. On the one hand, the results show two narratives reproducing the versions of two of the main political actors involved in the conflict, and on the other hand, a narrative characterized by a more personal and ironic appropriation of those versions. Results are discussed vis-à-vis the use of irony in history teaching in increasingly plural societies.

scholarly journals Η Υλοποίηση της Πολιτικής Συνοχής της ΕΕ στην Ελλάδα, 2007-2013: Ένας Ενδιάμεσος Απολογισμός

2012 ◽  
pp. 93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Γιώργος Ανδρέου ◽  
Μαρίνος Παπαδάκης
Keyword(s):  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Explanatory Framework ◽  
Reference Framework ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

The aim of this article is to identify the factors that have affected the implementation of the Programmes falling under Greece’s National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF). The relevant analysis is inspired by historical institutionalism and relies on an explanatory framework based on the double distinction between conjectural and structural factors on the one hand and external and domestic factors on the other hand.

Nationalism and the strength of secessionism in Western Europe: Static and dynamic autonomy

2020 ◽  
pp. 019251212096490
Author(s):  
André Lecours
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Time Dynamic ◽  
South Tyrol ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Over Time ◽  
West European

Contrary to the dominant expectations of the late 20th century, secessionism surged in two West European minority national communities, Catalonia and Scotland, over the last decade. Yet, in two others enjoying similar degrees of autonomy, Flanders and South Tyrol, secessionism did not gain strength. This outcome suggests that focusing on the degree of autonomy afforded to minority national communities is misplaced. This article shows that the nature of autonomy is more important than its degree for understanding the strength of secessionism. It demonstrates that the key to autonomy regimes weakening secessionism is their capacity to adjust and expand over time. Dynamic autonomy staves off secessionism while static autonomy stimulates it. The article is based on a controlled comparison of, on the one hand, Catalonia and Scotland, where autonomy regimes have been mostly static during key periods of time, and, on the other hand, Flanders and South Tyrol, where they have been dynamic.

scholarly journals Why the Spanish State of Autonomies could be the right Example for the Bolivian State

2010 ◽  
pp. 9-58
Author(s):  
Valentino M.C.M. Vondenhoff
Keyword(s):  
Basque Country ◽  
The Other ◽  
Weak State ◽  
Spanish History ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Political Model ◽  
Autonomous Regions ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Different Characteristics

The study’s aim is to analyze and investigate the characteristics of the regions demanding autonomy in Eastern Bolivia. Therefore the study takes a look at the Spanish political model, which could serve in a comparing and evaluating framework. The development of processes of autonomy has been part of Spanish history, especially in the regions of Catalonia and the Basque Country, which has contributed to the establishment of a stable democracy and a flourishing economy in Spain. Firstly, the study compares both autonomous regions in both countries out of a historical way. On the one hand, the reader will discover differences in the nationalist regions and on the other hand important similar developments in both countries. Finally, the study concludes that the Spanish State of Autonomies and its 1978 Constitution, established after Franco’s death, could serve as the right example for the Bolivian State. Essential in the article is the search for a consensus over the different characteristics which exist between the two ideologies which are the main reason why the Bolivian State could be described as a weak State.

scholarly journals At forbinde steder – turistoplevelser på farten

1970 ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The One

There are many facets to the ways in which we experience places. Each individual links places with other people, and these linkages can be material, bodily, social, recollected, imagined and fantasy-based in nature. This article examines a range of recent contributions to understanding the concept of place within the context of mobility. This is done primarily on the basis of the most recent research relating to both geography and tourism – research that features ideas from a range of different performance-oriented approaches. These are approaches that on the one hand bring an important focus on the material, bodily and social aspects of experiencing a sense of place via phenomenology, and that on the other hand must involve additional dimensions above and beyond the immediately apparent, and incorporate aspects of imagination and fantasy. Three separate studies – relating to Allinge Harbour, the Hammershus fortress and The Viking Ship Museum – serve to show how the experience of place involves linkages and traces that transcend many different types of time and space.

Die Zeit der Einbildungskraft - Die Rolle des Schematismus in Kants Erkenntnistheorie

Kant-Studien ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-462
Author(s):  
Rainer Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Pure Reason ◽  
Critique Of Pure Reason ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Abstract In this paper, I focus on Kant’s doctrine of figurative synthesis. Figurative synthesis is the result of the activity of productive transcendental imagination. This is the chief problem of the so-called “second proof step” in Kant’s deduction of the categories according to the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason. The pure original synthetic apperception forms in the inner and outer sense - i. e. in time and space - by self-affection structures of order that make it possible to cognize empirical objects. The order of space and time through figurative syntheses (formal intuitions) must be distinguished on the one hand from space and time as forms of intuition and on the other hand from the order of the manifold given in space and time (intuition of particular contents). This clarifies the differences and relations between the constitutive noetic faculties of our knowledge apparatus.

Stories and the Self

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Krause ◽  
Markus Appel
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lower Degree ◽  
Contrast Effects ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Abstract. Two experiments examined the influence of stories on recipients’ self-perceptions. Extending prior theory and research, our focus was on assimilation effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in line with a protagonist’s traits) as well as on contrast effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in contrast to a protagonist’s traits). In Experiment 1 ( N = 113), implicit and explicit conscientiousness were assessed after participants read a story about either a diligent or a negligent student. Moderation analyses showed that highly transported participants and participants with lower counterarguing scores assimilate the depicted traits of a story protagonist, as indicated by explicit, self-reported conscientiousness ratings. Participants, who were more critical toward a story (i.e., higher counterarguing) and with a lower degree of transportation, showed contrast effects. In Experiment 2 ( N = 103), we manipulated transportation and counterarguing, but we could not identify an effect on participants’ self-ascribed level of conscientiousness. A mini meta-analysis across both experiments revealed significant positive overall associations between transportation and counterarguing on the one hand and story-consistent self-reported conscientiousness on the other hand.

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