The Creation of National Identities

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Thiesse
Keyword(s):  
National Identities ◽  
The Creation

Brotherly Love

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Zanoni
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Italian Language ◽  
Ethnic Press ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Creation

This chapter argues that Italian migrants in Argentina employed Italian-language newspapers to construct gendered and racialized constructions of familial love between Italians and Argentines as “brotherly people” during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These everyday articulations of emotions and love in the ethnic press, the chapter contends, were just as important to the creation of international allegiances and national identities as were the more formal decisions made by diplomats and statesmen. Newspapers like La Patria degli Italiani depicted foreign relations between Italy and Argentina as family relations—as relations between racially similar “Latin brothers”—to justify male-predominate migration, to promote favorable attitudes toward Italy and its migrants, and to rebuke unbrotherly destinations like the United States.

Language Strategists: Redefining Political Frontiers on the Basis of Linguistic Choices

1979 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
National Identities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ethnic Movements

The decision to use and develop a low-status language in translations and creative works is often based on a desire to provide symbols that will assist the efforts of political leaders to challenge existing national and ethnic frontiers and to create new groups loyal to different institutions. New frontiers alter the relationships between peoples and also affect patterns of access to power and wealth within a group. Writers, translators, dictionary makers, and other literary figures who innovate for this reason should be called “language strategists.” Although primarily moved by a creative and artistic spirit, these persons are often intimately associated with national and ethnic movements because they share the interests of the political elites who lead them. This conscious or unconscious alliance is essential in the creation of ethnic and national identities.

scholarly journals Untitled

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 36-41
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Anghelea
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Maastricht Treaty ◽  
National Identities ◽  
European Identity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Eu

When at the end of the 1980s the EU launched a number of policies aimed to creating a European identity, the member states responded by incorporating into the Maastricht Treaty a clause stating that the European Union should respect the member states’ respective national identities (article F, point1). This reaction, along with the introduction of principle of subsidiary and the rejection of the word “federal”, revealed that many member states considered the creation of a European identity as a potential threat to their own national identities and their citizen’s national loyalties (Hojelid, 2001).

scholarly journals Íslenzkt þjóðerni: Jón Jónsson Aðils’ Iceland and the road to the future

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Kim Middel
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation

Abstract In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by profiling Iceland as a fully-fledged nation. The Icelandic historian Jón Jónsson Aðils was the man who would shape Iceland’s history, and the nation with it, in his work Icelandic Nationhood. His achievement was not self-evident; Iceland was part of the Danish realm and glorifying the past met with restrictions. This paper aims to illustrate how in this setting Aðils succeeded in constructing the Icelandic nation with the aid of existing Danish nationalist thought. I propose that using ideas of the famous Danish nationalist N.F.S. Grundtvig enabled Aðils to construct an Icelandic ’Golden Age’ specifically focused on culture and freedom that held future prospects. Finally, I will discuss the consequence of this focus as a decisive factor in the development of Icelandic self-awareness, aiming to contribute to the larger debate on the creation of national identities.

Mothering the state: Ecuadorian migrant mothers in the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-25
Author(s):  
Karem Roitman
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The State ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Immigrant Mothers ◽  
Southern England ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual

Women, as immigrant mothers, embody the creation of new identities that drink from distant roots but must survive in the present land. This article investigates the experience of Ecuadorian women who have become mothers in the United Kingdom, seeking to understand how they conceptualize their identity as Ecuadorians and whether and how they are relaying and nurturing this identity in their children. The article’s analysis is based upon semi-structured, extended interviews with several Ecuadorian women in southern England, with a focus upon the individual experiences of these women as migrants; how they experienced their changing identity as they entered motherhood; how they straddled two cultures as their children grew in Europe; how they understand themselves and their children as Ecuadorian; and how they see Ecuador from the perspective of immigrant mothers. Delving into discussions of the gendered creation of national identities, this article also explores how immigrant mothers birth the state through narratives and memories and seeks to understand how these narratives have been affected by migration and acculturation.

scholarly journals IMBRICAÇÕES GEOGRÁFICAS, LITERÁRIAS E EDUCACIONAIS ENTRE A GEOGRAFIA DE DONA BENTA (1935) E LE TOUR DE LA FRANCE PAR DEUX ENFANTS (1877)

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 438-455
Author(s):  
Filipe Rafael Gracioli ◽  
João Pedro Pezzato
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Geography Education ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Xxth Century ◽  
Xixth Century ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Creation

O texto apresentado estabelece aproximações entre a literatura infantil e a geografia a partir da análise de narrativas de caráter geográfico orientadas à criança leitora do período entre o final do século XIX e início do século XX: a Geografia de Dona Benta (1935) de Monteiro Lobato e o Le tour de la France par deux enfants, de G. Bruno (1877). O objetivo do estudo reside na discussão das aproximações e distanciamentos entre as narrativas em alguns aspectos, como o da criação de identidades nacionais, ao que se justapõem outros temas afins. Como referencial metodológico apresenta-se o paradigma indiciário, que aponta para a ideia de que há indícios no texto que revelam particularidades negligenciáveis, como saberes relevantes na compreensão da visão de mundo dos autores. A hipótese perseguida reside na ideia de que Lobato tenha se inspirado no livro francês para o desenvolvimento da sua narrativa, dadas as semelhanças de enredo entre os textos, além das similitudes entre os conteúdos de referência aos campos da educação e da geografia. O estudo recupera um tipo de escrita que inaugura para a infância uma literatura de itinerário, unindo literatura e geografia de modo jamais visto na escrita orientada à criança no ocidente. PALAVRAS-CHAVE Literatura infantil. Geografia. Educação.GEOGRAPHICAL, LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS BETWEEN GEOGRAFIA DE DONA BENTA (1935) AND LE TOUR DE LA FRANCE PAR DEUX ENFANTS (1877) ABSTRACT The text establishes similarities between children's literature and geography from the analysis of geographical character of narratives oriented reader child the period from the late XIXth century and early XXth century: the Geografia de Dona Benta (1935) and Le tour de la France par deux enfants (1877). The aim of this study lies in the discussion of the similarities and differences between the narratives in some aspects, such as the creation of national identities, juxtapose other related topics. As methodological framework presents the evidentiary paradigm, which points to the idea that there is evidence in the text that reveal negligible peculiarities, as relevant knowledge in understanding the worldview of the authors. The hypothesis pursued lies in the idea that Lobato has been inspired by French book for the development of his text, given the plot similarities between the texts, in addition to the similarities between the reference content to the fields of education and geography. The study retrieves a type of writing that opens for children a “journey literature”, combining literature and geography so ever seen in writing directed to the child.KEYWORDS Children’s literature. Geography. Education. ISSN: 2236-3904REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE EDUCAÇÃO EM GEOGRAFIA - RBEGwww.revistaedugeo.com.br - [email protected]

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