The Revolution is Dead. ¡¡Viva la revolucióón!: The Place of the Mexican Revolution in the Era of Globalization

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent T. Gawronski
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
Psychological Benefits ◽  
Identidad Nacional ◽  
Logical Sense ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Revolution

Mexicans have long cherished their revolutionary heritage, but where does the Mexican Revolution now reside in collective memory, and does the idea of the Revolution still have any legitimating power? And what has been the relationship between the PRI's long sequence of legitimacy crises and the Mexican Revolution? Until procedural democracy provides significant substantive and psychological benefits, the recent democratic turn will not fully supplant Mexico's traditional sources of legitimacy.While Mexicans generally see the regime as falling short in achieving the basic goals of the Mexican Revolution, there are indications that the Revolution——understood as collective memory, myth, history, and national identity——still holds a place in political discourse and rhetoric, even if such understandings make little logical sense in the era of globalization. Los mexicanos han tenido un largo cariñño por su herencia revolucionaria, pero ¿¿dóónde reside ahora la Revolucióón mexicana en la memoria colectiva?, ¿¿todavíía tiene poder legitimador la idea de la Revolucióón? ¿¿Y cuáál ha sido el víínculo entre la secuencia larga de las crisis de legitimidad del PRI y la Revolucióón Mexicana? Hasta que la democracia procesal proporcione ventajas substantivas y psicolóógicas significativas, la vuelta reciente a la democracia no suplantaráá completamente las fuentes tradicionales de la legitimidad en Mééxico. Mientras que los mexicanos generalmente entienden que el réégimen ha fallado en la realizacióón de las metas báásicas de la Revolucióón mexicana, hay indicaciones que la Revolucióón——entendida como memoria colectiva, mito, historia e identidad nacional——todavíía tiene lugar en el discurso y retóórica polííticos, incluso si tales conocimientos tienen poco sentido lóógico en la éépoca de la globalizacióón.

scholarly journals Conocimiento cultural como base para la construcción de identidad nacional. Un análisis del discurso de la prensa sobre el default de 2014 en Argentina

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-103
Author(s):  
Simone Mwangi
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Identidad Nacional ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Major Threat ◽  
Crisis Events

AbstractEconomic and political crisis situations are interpreted differently in different societies and cultures. What is perceived as a major threat in one society can be experienced as an everyday occurrence in other societies. This shows that crises are not issues that exist independently of people, but that they are to a large extent the result of social interpretations. An example of how a community interprets events as a surmountable challenge, rather than a crisis, is Argentina’s public discourse on the 2014 default. Instead of a discourse that concentrates on economic, political and social problems, the event provoked a political discourse on national identity. The present paper uses the methods of descriptive discourse analysis to study this solution-driven way of handling crisis events. The investigation focuses on the cultural knowledge and discourse traditions used in Argentina to interpret the country’s situation in the summer of 2014. The study analyzes how these cultural and linguistic resources contribute to coping with the situation of default while strengthening national identity.

scholarly journals Valores culturales e identidad nacional en Largo ha sido este día de José Manuel Crespo

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Luz Stella Hurtado Rúa
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Identidad Nacional ◽  
Long Day ◽  
National Memory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Oral Testimony

Cultural Values and National Identity in Largo ha sido este día by José Manuel Crespo. The main topic of this paper is the exposition of some of the cultural values and certain characteristics of national identity shown in the autobiography Largo ha sido este día [It’s been a long day] (1987), by the Colombian writer José Manuel Crespo. The research is based on the analysis and interpretation of the various elements that compose the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels of the work and, especially, on the role played by individual and collective memory for the organization of the narrative discourse. The features exposed are related to Ciénaga (the author’s birthplace), in which the importance of the social group that surrounds the writer’s environment and the influence of oral testimony are discovered, as well as certain words related to fauna and flora. Within the autobiographical space, customs and traditions of the period in question (1940s and 1950s) and the acquisition of knowledge through the discourse exposed by all the characters referred to, are linked. The author manifests through this work not only personal aspects of his childhood, but also the transcendence of the culture of Ciénaga when he evokes features that allow knowing facts that affect national memory and identity

scholarly journals Between truth and memory: images in Lithuanian historical documentaries in post-communist transformation period

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Rūta Šermukšnytė
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Images ◽  
Historical Films ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In ◽  
Transformation Period

The goal of this paper is to reveal how and why the circulation of the same historical images takes place; whose values and, simultaneously, memory are conveyed through these images; what is the relationship between the audiovisual representation of the past and collective memory? The article states that manifestations of the visual stereotypes of Lithuania history in post-communist transformation period (1988–2004) are mainly based on certain cinematic tendencies. Historical films that are considered to be an adaptation of the national narrative cinematography have been predominant since 1988. This kind of narration is characterized by validation of history as a national value, formation of national identity and its stabilization rather than diversification and correction of the collective memory or the development of critical thinking. The current documentary material that is based on the understanding of history as a myth of the nation’s history is not aimed at creating a new visual and verbal narration about the realities of the past, but rather at recognizing what has been said and made in the previous works.

scholarly journals Las memorias nacionales: conflictos y límites / National Memories: Conflicts and Limitations

2017 ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Francisco Erice Sebares
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Identidad Nacional ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Memory

This article examines the relevance of the concept of national memory and its limits, defending the convenience of using an idea of collective memory which includes nations, these understood as specific communities of memory. It also analyses some key mechanisms in the diffusion by the States of a narrative on the past that is linked to the construction of national identity and legitimation of politics in the present. This diffusion is regarded as in a usually conflictive interaction with memories of groups or smaller collectives, as well as with other national communities.Key WordsCollective memory, communities of memory, national memory, teaching of history, commemorations, national identityResumenEste artículo se interroga sobre la pertinencia del concepto de memoria nacional y los límites de su aplicación, y defiende la utilidad de una noción de memoria colectiva extensible a las naciones entendidas como especificas comunidades de memoria. También analiza a algunos mecanismos claves en la difusión, desde los Estados, de un relato sobre el pasado ligado a la construcción de la identidad nacional y la legitimación de las políticas del presente. La difusión de la memoria nacional se entiende en interacción, generalmente conflictiva, con las memorias de grupos y entidades menores, o con las de otras comunidades nacionales.Palabras claveMemoria colectiva, comunidades de memoria, memoria nacional, enseñanza de la historia, conmemoraciones, identidad nacional. 

scholarly journals Negotiating a ‘Tangled Web of Pride and Shame’: A Crimean Case-Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-521
Author(s):  
Rachel Bates
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Military History ◽  
Community Stability ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cultural Turn

This article complements an identified ‘cultural turn’ in military history, which emphasizes the potency of perception and the extent to which successes, failures, opportunities and threats are culturally conditioned (Black 2004: 233-35). It will deal with issues surrounding ‘collective remembrance’, a concept which Joanna Bourke identifies as problematic. For Bourke, ‘collectivememory’ has been characterized by a ‘museal sensibility’ in which mass narratives ‘wallow’ in a nostalgic world of community, stability and certainty (Bourke 2004: 473). She argues that collective memory is an exclusive script, which imposes unity on individual experiences and overlooks conscious acts of cultural selection (Bourke 2004: 473). Whilst scholarship on the relationship of present with past rightly takes issue with collective, or public, memory, precluding individual, or private, memories, Bourke usefully draws attention to the mythical qualities of collective remembrance. Military history, integral as it is to national identity yet harbouring inherently difficult histories, is particularly susceptible to cultural, social and political mediation. This article traces nineteenth-century treatments of two Crimean failures and the legacy ofthese attitudes today in museums, which to a large extent echo some of the dominant myths and silences of Victorian Britain.

Comedy between Two Revolutions: Opera Buffa and the Risorgimento, 1831-1848

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Izzo
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
National Character ◽  
Giuseppe Verdi ◽  
The Political ◽  
Italian History ◽  
Italian Opera ◽  
Opera Buffa ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Scene

For more than a century discussions of the relationship between the operatic stage and the socio-political scene of the Risorgimento have relied almost exclusively on serious operas (particularly those of Giuseppe Verdi) and especially on the period after 1848. Roger Parker's recent revision of Verdi's ostensibly exclusive role as "Bard of the Risorgimento" provides an opportunity to reassess the politics of Italian opera during this period, considering also other composers and works. The purpose of this study is to discuss the interaction between opera and the Risorgimento in a group of comic works composed between the revolutions of 1831 and 1848, focusing in particular on the representation and implications of national identity in Luigi Ricci's Il nuovo Figaro(1832) and in two Italian versions of Donizetti's La Fille du rgiment (1840), as well as on the significance of military themes. Furthermore, relevant cases of censorship in these and other comic works are examined. These operas uncover numerous affinities with the political discourse in contemporary serious melodrama, showing that warlike themes, choruses, and other statements of patriotism were not a prerogative of Verdi's operas, nor an exclusive feature of the serious genre. Their authors used conventional buffa procedures, such as modern European settings and encoded allegories of national character, in ways that reveal connections with the tensions and aspirations of the Risorgimento. A better knowledge of this repertory can only improve our understanding of the politics of opera during this crucial period of Italian history.

GEOPOLITICS AND GEOPOETICS IN STANISŁAW KOLBUSZEWSKI’S BALTIC ESSAYS

Via Latgalica ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Wojciech Browarny ◽  
Piotr Zazula
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Local Color ◽  
Territorial Claims ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Geographical Space

The paper discusses Stanislaw Kolbuszewski’s essays devoted to the capitals of the Baltic states (W stolicach państw bałtyckich, Poznań 1939; (In the Capitals of the Baltic States).) the author visited in the 1930s. Kolbuszewski’s aim was to familiarize the Polish reader with modern Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia as seen through the eyes of a (friendly) stranger. His book clearly transcends the conventional limits of its genre (travel writing, journalism, reportage). The three capitals function there as extended conceptual metaphors of the Baltic states, their history, architecture, urban layout, and local color being viewed by the Polish “tourist” as symbolic manifestations of their inhabitants’ national mentality. The paper focuses on the geopolitical and geopoetic ideas implicit in Kolbuszewski’s account, exploring the connections between “imagined” geographical space and the nation’s collective memory. Curiously enough, though a Polish nationalist at heart, Kolbuszewski does not make any territorial claims on what was once “Polish Livonia”. Instead, he enthusiastically endorses Baltic nationalisms, dismissing the German and Russian cultural contributions as hostile foreign intrusions. The tropes of ethnic “purity” and folk cultures viewed as pillars of national identity, recurrent in Kolbuszewski’s Baltic essays, bring to mind the anti-German propaganda employed by Polish National Democrats after WW1 and Polish communists after WW2 in their attempt to justify Poland’s annexation of German Silesia, Pomerania, and Masuria, symbolically redefined in the Polish political discourse as the so-called Regained Territories. The connection between Kolbuszewski’s Baltic essays and his affinities with the Regained Territories narrative, as developed by Polish Western Thought and the Piast historiography, is our focus in this article.

scholarly journals BRITISH IDENTITIES AND THE POLITICS OF ANCIENT POETRY IN LATER EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP CONNELL
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the scholarly recovery and popular reception of ‘ancient poetry’ in later eighteenth-century England, with a view to elucidating the relationship between cultural primitivism and more overtly politicized discourses of national identity. The publication of the poems of Ossian, in the early 1760s, gave a new prominence to the earliest cultural productions of Celtic antiquity, and inspired the attempts of English literary historians, such as Thomas Percy and Thomas Warton, to provide an alternative ‘Gothic’ genealogy for the English literary imagination. However, both the English reception of Ossian, and the Gothicist scholarship of Percy and Warton, were complicated by the growing strength of English radical patriotism. As popular political discourse assumed an increasingly insular preoccupation with Saxon liberties and ancient constitutional rights, more conservative literary historians found their own attempts to ground English poetic tradition in some form of Gothic inheritance progressively compromised. The persistence of ancient constitutionalism as a divisive element of English political argument thus curtailed the ability of Gothicist literary scholarship to function as an effective vehicle for English cultural patriotism.

scholarly journals Discurso científico, profesionalización histórica e identidad nacional mexicana / Scientific Discourse, Historical Profession, and the Mexican National Identity

2017 ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Óscar Fernando López Meraz ◽  
Diana Villegas Loeza
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mexican American War ◽  
Identidad Nacional ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Historical Profession

This article examines the relationship between scientific discourse and historical profession, on the one hand, and the Mexican identity, on the other, during the 19th and the 20th centuries. Its purpose is to prove that the bond between historiography and construction and strengthening of national identity has been operating until today and still persists. To explain this persistence, we take as a standpoint the hypothesis that the invention of a past was an essential requisite by the emergent Mexican state to help unit a population characterised by its differences and geographic distances, the situation brought about by the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) becoming a critical moment in this process.Key WordsScientific discourse, historical profession, nationalism, historiography, national identity.ResumenEl presente artículo examina las relaciones entre el discurso científico y profesionalización de la historia, de un lado, y la identidad mexicana, de otro, durante los siglos XIX y XX. El propósito del mismo es mostrar que ese vínculo entre la historiografía y la construcción y fortalecimiento de la identidad nacional todavía persiste en la actualidad. Para explicar dicho persistencia planteamos la hipótesis de que la invención de un pasado fue un requisito imprescindible para el Estado mexicano a la hora de buscar la cohesión de una población caracterizada por las diferencias y las distancias geográficas, siendo la coyuntura de la guerra con los Estados Unidos (1846-1848) un momento decisivo en este proceso.Palabras claveDiscurso científico, profesionalización de la historia, nacionalismo, historiografía, identidad nacional.

scholarly journals Shiina Rinzō: imaging hope and despair in occupation Japan

2003 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-455
Author(s):  
MARK WILLIAMS
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
International Community ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Future ◽  
Benedict Anderson ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

With defeat in the Pacific War in 1945, the very notion of ‘community’ (as described by Benedict Anderson) in Japan was under threat, the future of the nation dependent, as never before, on the response of the international community. Viewed in a different light, however, the slate was clean—the possibilities, indeed the need, for revised terms of reference for this ‘imagined community’ now of paramount importance. The ensuing attempts to define the parameters of the emerging national identity were far-reaching and multi-faceted, seeking as they did to encompass the memories of loss and devastation through the realm of everyday culture as well as through political discourse. The focus of this paper will be on the contribution to this radical reassessment of the relationship between the nation and the individual made by the group of authors collectively known as the Sengoha (après guerre literary coterie). More specifically, I shall be examining the novellas, Shin'ya no shuen (The midnight banquet, 1947) and Eien naru josho (The eternal preface, 1948), two early texts by the author, Shiina Rinzō, arguably the most representative Sengoha writer, for evidence of the extent to which this literature helped to shape and modify the ‘imagined community’ of Japan.

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