Forging Nationalism Through Heritage in Oman

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (830) ◽  
pp. 360-365
Author(s):  
Amal Sachedina
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
The Past

During his five-decade reign, Sultan Qaboos bin Said relied on heritage as a key tool for nation-building. Old forts and objects central to Omani traditional culture like the coffee urn and the ceremonial dagger became symbols of a unifying national ethos. At the same time, their former political significance was downplayed. But some Omanis have held onto memories of a different conception of the past. And now, after the sultan’s death in 2020, heritage is becoming more of a privatized business sector.

“Forward to David the Builder!” Georgia's (re)turn to language-centered nationalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 522-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christofer Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The Past ◽  
Building Project ◽  
The Rose ◽  
State Language

After the Rose Revolution, President Saakashvili tried to move away from the exclusionary nationalism of the past, which had poisoned relations between Georgians and their Armenian and Azerbaijani compatriots. His government instead sought to foster an inclusionary nationalism, wherein belonging was contingent upon speaking the state language and all Georgian speakers, irrespective of origin, were to be equals. This article examines this nation-building project from a top-down and bottom-up lens. I first argue that state officials took rigorous steps to signal that Georgian-speaking minorities were part of the national fabric, but failed to abolish religious and historical barriers to their inclusion. I next utilize a large-scale, matched-guise experiment (n= 792) to explore if adolescent Georgians ostracize Georgian-speaking minorities or embrace them as their peers. I find that the upcoming generation of Georgians harbor attitudes in line with Saakashvili's language-centered nationalism, and that current Georgian nationalism therefore is more inclusionary than previous research, or Georgia's tumultuous past, would lead us to believe.

For Science and Country: History Writing, Nation Building, and National Embeddedness in Third Republic France, 1870–1914

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Guillaume Lancereau
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
History Writing ◽  
The West ◽  
Academic Competition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Territorial Claims

This article examines late nineteenth and early twentieth-century historiographical practices and convictions in Third Republic France. It shifts the focus from the question of whether French academic historians were nationalists to the issue of how they were nationalists. If republican academic historians took a critical stance on nationalist distortions of the past, they nevertheless associated the teaching of history with patriotism and opposed historiographical “pan-Germanism” in ways favorable to French cultural and territorial claims. Meanwhile, the growing internationalization of the field stimulated scholarly competition across the West and spurred reflections about nationals’ epistemological privilege over national histories, methodological nationalism, and the invention of national historiographical traditions. Uncovering the anxieties of continual debate with foreign historians and the nationalist right wing, this article offers a prehistory of present-day dilemmas over global, national, and nationalist histories in an international field characterized by structural inequalities and academic competition.

scholarly journals The IUCN-SSC Cave Invertebrate Specialist Group

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Deharveng ◽  
Tony Whitten ◽  
Judson Wynne ◽  
Ana Komericki ◽  
Sonia Khela
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Conservation Priority ◽  
The Past ◽  
Species Survival ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Specialist Group

The Cave Invertebrate Specialist Group, an IUCN Species Survival Commission, is a group of 80 taxonomists, biospeleologists, ecologists, and conservation biologists. Since 2014, our objectives have been to: (1) conserve subterranean habitats, and address one of the largest lacunas in conservation biology – the protection of sensitive cave and subterranean invertebrate populations; (2) conduct IUCN Red List evaluations for imperiled and/or narrow range endemic species; (3) encourage comprehensive baseline biodiversity surveys, in particular to determine the proportion of unknown biodiversity yet to be discovered; and, (4) provide collaborative opportunities with the business sector for conducting Environmental and Social Impact Assessments, Biodiversity Action Plans, and site and species management plans. We will our accomplishments over the past four years including growth of membership, the number of Red List evaluations conducted and the total number of species recognized as a conservation priority.

scholarly journals Dinamika Sosial Ekonomi Penambang Pasir Tradisional di Desa Mataraman (1960-2010)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Norhidayat Norhidayat ◽  
Rochgiyanti Rochgiyanti ◽  
Rusdi Effendi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Sand Mining ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Monetary Crisis ◽  
The Village

This research oriented at the traditional mining sand in the village of Mataraman that is the business sector labor-intensive and has long lasting. The purpose of this research is to know about the lives of the miners traditional sand in the village of Mataraman sub-district Banjar Regency. The worst of conditions happened in the past years 1995 to 2000, while the best conditions during this time is the condition post monetary crisis over five years is 2000 and 2005. Sand mining in the village Mataraman also provides role for the economy villagers Mataraman, provide jobs, and becomes a magnet the economic activities and expand their villages indirectly also bring economic impact to its villagers

‘Een homo is minder verdacht dan een held’ : Literaire verbeeldingen van Michiel de Ruyter en het nationale-identiteitsdebat na 2001

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-194
Author(s):  
Marc van Zoggel
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
National History ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract Historically, the glorification of the past and the eulogizing of national heroes in art and literature have been constructive elements in the process of nation building. In the postmodern era, however, a cultivation of national history and its great men and women is often regarded outdated or even suspect and regressive. The ‘nine eleven’ terrorist attacks in the United States and the rise and assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn intensified an ongoing debate in the Netherlands about the meaning and value of a shared ‘Dutch national identity’ in a multicultural, diversified society. In this article, I argue that several novels and poems about Dutch naval hero Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676), published in or in the wake of the ‘De Ruyter year 2007’, both reproduce and challenge a wide range of voices, viewpoints and sentiments within the hot topic of national identity in the twenty-first century.

Second round will be closely fought in Peru

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policies ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past

Significance A second round will take place on June 5, between Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who came second. Both espouse orthodox economic policies. The business sector is relieved that Kuczynski beat Veronika Mendoza, the candidate of a revived left. Impacts Issues surrounding the JNE's erratic role in the campaign are likely to dissipate. Problems of campaign funding may surface in the second round, possibly to Fujimori's detriment. Mendoza has managed to rebuild Peru's left, overcoming some of the ideological divisions of the past. The results are a further setback for APRA, Peru's oldest party.

Causes and Consequences of the Korean Financial Crisis

2000 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dosoung Choi ◽  
Frank C. Jen ◽  
H. Han Shin
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
External Shocks ◽  
Business Risk ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Past ◽  
Debt Capital

During the past decade, the profitability of Korean firms has declined significantly while their business risk has risen substantially. The deteriorating condition was largely due to excessive investments in manufacturing capacity that were financed mainly with short-term debt capital. The measures to restructure the system are summarized in two major thrusts: one, to reform corporate governance so that the business sector becomes more transparent and more value-enhancing; and two, to help develop long-term capital markets so that the domestic financial system becomes less vulnerable to external shocks.

Where Is China Headed? New Tendencies in the Humanities and Social Sciences

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-176
Author(s):  
Xuedian Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Current Practices

China as a whole is facing a marked trend toward indigenization. The past thirty years have seen rapid and profound changes in the social sciences, heralding a new season in the humanities, in which the study of traditional culture has shifted from the sidelines to the center of academic research. Traditional culture, especially Confucianism, with its worldly orientation, is bound to play a central role in deepening and expanding the ongoing conversation with liberalism. At the same time, however, it must still develop values for structuring society and everyday life that are as influential as those of liberalism. The three main challenges to a Confucian revival today are the ruling ideology in China (namely, Marxism), the dominance of Western sociopolitical theory, and the current practices of disciplinary organization.

Modern Urban Ecological Waterscape Planning and Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 689 ◽  
pp. 505-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Pan
Keyword(s):  
Water Environment ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Ecological Planning ◽  
Correct Judgment ◽  
Chinese City ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels

Modern urban ecological waterscape is essentially about planning waterfront construction as well as ecology solicitude in a rapidly changing environment in Chinese city. The primary goal of this research is attempting to reconnect the relationship between waterscape and environment, which has been broken up in the past urbanization. The method used in this study is known as the ecological planning and design, and the author suggests that the ecological waterscape planning should include the aspects of water environment restoring, old buildings reusing, different levels water purifying system and traditional culture exploring, etc. It is concluded that the correct judgment and optional operation of these factors will enhance the function of urban waterscape as well as improve city living environment in general.

Afghanistan: transitional justice in the midst of war

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1049-1064
Author(s):  
Elham Atashi
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Significant Component ◽  
International Support ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Past Injustices

In Afghanistan, there has been much talk about, and international support for dealing with past injustices by developing transitional justice mechanisms. Reconciliation is being promoted as a nation-building strategy. This article argues that the implementation of transitional justice poses several challenges. First, a significant component of such a strategy is based on reconciliation taking place internally among competing armed groups and ethnic identities with the goal of transforming Afghan society. This assumes the cause of past conflicts to be internal and along ethnic divisions which limits the accountability for war crimes. It also considers violence and crimes of war as a thing of the past, ignoring the present situation. Furthermore, given the ongoing war between the US-led forces and the Taliban, insecurity and escalating levels of violence one has to question whether transitional justice can take place during a war. This article concludes that transitional justice is interconnected to perceptions of security and stability. The analysis of the present situation in Afghanistan poses critical questions as to whether memories of victims can be considered as the past in the midst of war.

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