scholarly journals Transparency and Nordic Openness in Finland: Ideational Shift, Invented Tradition, and Anders Chydenius

2021 ◽  
pp. 153-174
Author(s):  
Tero Erkkilä
Keyword(s):  
Invented Tradition

The Gospels as Imperialized Sites of Memory in Late Ancient Christianity

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 291-307
Author(s):  
Jason T. Larson
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Divine Power ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Invented Tradition ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Material Things ◽  
A Site ◽  
Ancient Christianity

This article considers the intersection of Christian and imperial memory in the physical Gospel book. Besides describing the function of gospel books in the post-Constantine Roman Empire, it examines the connection between the Roman construction and production of sites of memory that established Roman imperium in the Mediterranean and the development of the Christian Gospel codex as a site of memory within Christianity. It also explores the related issues of imperial and divine power as manifest through material things, the rhetoric of seeing and iconicity, and the invented tradition of Christian orthodoxy. The article shows that the Christian Gospels and Roman sites of memory, despite a vast difference in their intended functions and original uses, both established imperium. It maintains that the creation of the Gospels' imperial iconicity was not based on their function as texts of spiritual enlightenment in late ancient Christianity, but on the fact that the production of Gospels as material cultural objects depended on Roman cultural exemplars and ideological rhetoric.

Changing Strategies in Marketing Kenya's Tourist Art: From Ethnic Brands to Fair Trade Labels

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dillon Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Invented Tradition ◽  
Tourist Art ◽  
Tribal Art

Abstract:This article explores recent changes in Kenya's curio or handicrafts industry. In addition to a crisis in access to raw materials and a diversifying tourist market, the rise in the use of cell phones and the Internet during the early 2000s present unique challenges. Nonetheless, innovative Kenyan entrepreneurs are using these challenges to market and brand products in new ways—by representing modern global interconnectedness as “fair trade” or creatively promoting the authenticity of their products in other ways. Kenya's artisans and traders have also adapted to diverse and complex tastes beyond the desire for an invented tradition of ethnic and “tribal” art.

scholarly journals Black Pete, “Smug Ignorance,” and the Value of the Black Body in Postcolonial Netherlands

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 262-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvon van der Pijl ◽  
Karina Goulordava
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Black Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Invented Tradition

This article discusses the controversies over the blackface figure Black Pete (Zwarte Piet)—central to the popular Dutch Saint Nicholas holiday tradition—and the public uproar surrounding the Saint Nicholas feast in 2013. It combines history, social theory, and patchwork ethnography, and draws on theoretical approaches discussing race, capitalism, and the commodification of cultural difference to establish an understanding of the controversial character. In doing so, it argues that Black Pete is an invented tradition that marks a “white Dutch habitus” in which the historical context of colonialism and the legacy of slavery is repeatedly ignored or denied.

scholarly journals CUSTOM-MADE PATCHWORK LANDSCAPE: ENTREPRENEURIAL AND PRIVATE REGIONALISM / PAGAL UŽSAKYMĄ PAGAMINTA MOZAIKA: VERSLO IR PRIVATUS REGIONALIZMAS

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-302
Author(s):  
Ilze Miķelsone
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Transition Economy ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
Invented Tradition ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology

Regional identity as a subject of invented tradition is continuously updated in whole Europe; this process is especially regular in cultures of small populations, such as Latvia. It is a multilayered term, which involves a continuously changing main value-focus and numerous disciplines, including architecture. One of the ways to look at it realistically is to analyze the visually represented main hegemonic values and processes in society. Appropriate platform for this is provided by agglomeration expansion – fusion spots of the urban and the rural, thus creating a characteristic local landscape. The aim of this article is to clarify core impacts on the regional identity formation of the landscape of Riga region as observed today. Methodology is based on the case study of Mārupe County, using RES (residential) landscape inventory, urban-morphology, photo-analytical and rhetoric problem-definition methodology. Major findings lead to a conclusion of unbalanced role between the state intervention and free trade system, based on the neoliberal ideology intensified in the transition – economy zone. Thus regional spatial identity has mostly failed following any professional standards, but has rather developed as clusters with residential function, mostly under the strong impact of the market economy and entrepreneurship. Regioninis identitetas kaip naujai išrastos tradicijos samprata yra nuolatos atnaujinama visoje Europoje; šis procesas yra ypač dėsningas tokių nedidelių šalių, kaip Latvija, kultūrose. Tai daugiasluoksnis reiškinys, apimantis besikeičiančias, į vertybes orientuotas disciplinas, taip pat ir architektūrą. Vienas iš būdų į tai žiūrėti realistiškai – analizuoti vizualiai reprezentuotas pagrindines hegemonines vertybes ir procesus visuomenėje. Tam tikrą platformą šiam reiškiniui teikia aglomeracijos plėtra – miestietiškumo ir kaimiškumo sintezė, kurianti charakteringą vietinį kraštovaizdį. Šio straipsnio tikslas – išsiaiškinti nūdienos Rygos regiono kraštovaizdžio esminį poveikį regioninio identiteto formavimui. Metodologija yra pagrįsta Mārupe apygardos tyrimu, kuriam naudotas RES (gyvenamojo) kraštovaizdžio aprašo, miestų morfologijos, fotoanalitinis ir retorinis problemos įvardijimo metodai. Tyrimo rezultatai veda prie išvados, kad valstybės įsikišimo vaidmuo ir laisvoji prekybos sistema, pagrįsta neoliberalia ideologija, nėra subalansuoti ir tai sustiprėja pereinamosios ekonomikos zonoje. Taigi regioninis erdvinis identitetas ne tikslingai grindžiamas profesionaliais standartais, o vystosi daugiau kaip gyvenamosios paskirties zonos, stipriai veikiamos rinkos ekonomikos ir verslo.

A New Persian War

2019 ◽  
pp. 202-248
Author(s):  
David C. Yates
Keyword(s):  
Invented Tradition ◽  
Persian War ◽  
City States ◽  
The City

Chapter 6 argues that the dominance of the polis in the recollection of the Persian War was challenged after the battle of Chaeronea when Philip and Alexander invented a Persian-War tradition to which all Greeks could stake a claim, regardless of their actual Persian-War service. The chapter begins with some of the Macedonians’ most conspicuous Persian-War commemorations and then considers three contemporary rejections of their invented tradition by the city-states of old Greece, as well as the steps taken by the Macedonians to counter them. It includes an examination of the Corinthian League, the destruction of Thebes, commemorations ordered after Granicus and Gaugamela, new Persian-War rituals at Plataea, the burning of Persepolis, and the Lamian War.

Stained Glass Windows, the Great Hall of Justice of the Peace Palace

2018 ◽  
pp. 463-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Litwin
Keyword(s):  
Stained Glass ◽  
International Court Of Justice ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
International Court ◽  
Invented Tradition ◽  
The Hague ◽  
International Adjudication ◽  
Justice Of The Peace

This chapter critically examines The Evolution of the Peace Ideal (1914), a series of four monumental stained glass windows inside the largest courtroom at the Peace Palace in The Hague that now houses the International Court of Justice. It uses the stained glass windows to explain three structuring beliefs held by international lawyers about international adjudication. First, the ethereal effect of the stained glass and its vivid iconography signals international adjudication as essential to the achievement of peace and thus a matter of professional faith. Second, a highly structured evolutionary narrative across the four windows depicts the idea of international adjudication as progress which serves to distinguish ‘civilized’ and ‘uncivilized’ states. Third, the windows’ historicism links international adjudication to an immemorial past, an invented tradition that obfuscates significant changes to its practice and meaning over the last century.

Ordo-Liberalism as Tradition, Ideology, and Model of Citizenship: Memorializing, Reinventing, Forgetting

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-128
Author(s):  
Kenneth Dyson
Keyword(s):  
Family Resemblance ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Academic Power ◽  
Liberal Tradition ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Invented Tradition ◽  
Canonical Texts ◽  
Core Characteristics

This chapter examines the complex processes of memorialization, reinvention, and forgetting that have characterized the Ordo-liberal tradition; the role of the Freiburg School; the selection of certain aspects of political economy and of certain thinkers and texts; and the distinctive focusing illusions that have followed. It also looks at how its identity has been shaped by its ideological makeup and its model of citizenship. The picture that emerges is of a tradition whose core characteristics can be defined but whose boundaries are difficult to fix. Part of the problem is its ideological hybridity as both conservative and liberal. The chapter looks at the dual nature of the Ordo-liberal tradition as explicit and formalized knowledge and as tacit and common-sense knowledge (William Sorley). In the first sense it is characterized by academic power structures, notably in economics and law, and canonical texts, and by the effects of generational change on these structures. In the second sense, Ordo-liberalism is bound up with administrative cultures and the extent to which they are rule-bound and receptive. The chapter then considers two other aspects of the Ordo-liberal tradition: as ideal type (Eucken) and more loosely as family resemblance (Ludwig Wittgenstein); and as authentic and invented tradition (Eric Hobsbawm), distinguishing Freiburg 1, 2, and 3. Finally, the chapter identifies the Ordo-liberal model of citizenship as based on safeguarding the morally responsible individual: the wise consumer, the thrifty saver, and the responsible creditor. It condemns feckless and profligate behaviour, notably of debtors. This model is subjected to critique.

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