Borderization and Public Security in Argentina

2019 ◽  
pp. 78-98
Author(s):  
Alejandro Grimson ◽  
Brígida Renoldi
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Border Areas ◽  
Global Threat

This chapter discusses the border areas between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. The contemporary redefined security paradigm, which rests on a specific historical context, targets the global threat of drugs and terrorism. This chapter discusses certain events historically, in order to understand what we mean when we say security, especially public security in Argentina, and particularly at the borders. We work with the concept of “borderization,” a tool that allows us to elicit the formation of limits and differentiations, and a tool that allows us to think about spaces of security that emerge in metropolitan and geo-political nation-state borders.

scholarly journals Study on the Administrative Divisions in China’s Border Areas from the Perspective of Nation-state Building --- Changes to the Administrative Divisions in Inner Mongolia in the 20th Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Sun Jing
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
National Development ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Qing Empire ◽  
Central Plains ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Border Areas ◽  
The Yuan Dynasty

From the end of the Yuan Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, when Inner Mongolia was still a special administrative region of the Qing Empire, the Mongolian nomad's territory went through numerous significant changes. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the administrative divisions in Inner Mongolia underwent three major changes and after continuous integration they were incorporated into the administrative territory of the People's Republic of China in a manner that was compatible with the behavior of a modern nation-state. Such changes can neither be ascribed to the natural process of national development and it’s accompanying fissions nor to the sinocization of Inner Mongolian initiated by Han migrants. Instead, it is derived from the game of power played in the region by various forces, from the Manchu and Han peoples, to the Mongolians, Russians and Japanese, and the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party in the period of surging modern nationalism. This is evidenced by the changes of division in Hulunbuir in particular. This case is enough to demonstrate that the issues of China’s border and nations are not simply equivalent to the binary opposition between Central Plains and border areas, between Han and ethnic minorities, but a process teeming with complex and diverse points of contention, political wrestling matches and other interactions.

POSSIBILITIES OF ENSURING PERSONAL FREEDOM AND PUBLIC SECURITY IN CONTEMPORARY MIGRATION CONTEXT: THEORETICAL ASPECT

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Nijolė Aukštuolytė ◽  
Aušra Stepanovienė
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Theoretical Aspect ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Personal Freedom ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Text Interpretation ◽  
Personal Decision

The article deals with compatibility of personal freedom and public security. The aim of the research is to analyse theoretical aspects of the correlation between personal freedom and public security and evaluate their assurance possibilities in the context of contemporary global migration. The article emphasizes value of freedom and security, their interconnection as well as demand and possibilities of their compatibility. Aspects of freedom as personal decision-making and freedom as realizing that decision are analyzed by revealing that extension of freedom boundaries common to contemporary society can turn into self-will with regard to other individuals or society. Such concept of freedom subsequently raises the issue of public security. The following research methods were employed: text interpretation, rational reconstructions, historical explications. On the basis of the methods, the essential ideas of the issue under discussion, its arguments and meanings within historical context were revealed. The conducted analysis allows one to make a conclusion that an individual is free in the society as much as he acknowledges others’ right for freedom whereas the society is secure if certain individual’s self-will is limited for the sake of all society members’ right to freedom. Assurance of personal freedom and public security is the goal of contemporary democratic society and different state institutions including the State Border Guard Service, and has become extremely relevant in the context of modern global migration.

scholarly journals B(ordering) Utopia in Birobidzhan: Spatial Aspects of Jewish Colonization in Inner Asia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 220
Author(s):  
Ivan Peshkov
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Population ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
Inner Asia ◽  
Modern Project ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Management Regimes ◽  
Border Areas

The borderline territory serves a double purpose, being simultaneously zones of cultural contact and cultural barriers–administrative and often civilizational. This ambivalence frequently affects borderline area inhabitants turning them into hostages of border management regimes and outside projections concerning their cultural and civilizational status, and the authenticity of forms of their culture representation. In the case of Birobidzhan, we are dealing with an absolutely modern project of creating ethnic territoriality without reference to the historical context and far from the places of traditional settlement of the Jewish population. The implementation of this project put the Jewish settlers at the center of a complex process of border management and securitization of the border areas. The factors of border and “remoteness” are largely underestimated in Birobidzhan studies. The article fills this niche, emphasizing the spatial aspects of the implementation of the “anti-Zionist utopia” and its complex relationship with previous models of territoriality in the region and local inhabitants.

Transatlantic Film Studies in the Age of Neoliberalism: Towards a Postnational Cinema?

2019 ◽  
pp. 299-312
Author(s):  
Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Cinema ◽  
Popular Cinema ◽  
The Us ◽  
Rules Set

This essay argues that specialists in Transatlantic Film Studies need to contextualize their research agendas within the growing intensification of globalizing forces, above all, transnational capitalism. Within this historical context, the customary intellectual praise for aesthetic and cultural hybridity, alterity, self-dislocation and cosmopolitan deterritorialization is, at least, partially misguided. Due to the financial specificities of the film industry and its pervasive social preeminence, Transatlantic Film Studies have been a favorable academic venue to negatively evaluate the constrains, narrowness and reductive essentialism of the nation-state, as well of national communities and traditions. One should not overstate this argumentative gesture for three reasons. First, transatlantic artistic collaborations are never symmetrical and tend to be mediated by strong socio-economic and geopolitical inequalities. Second, the filmic interconnection between Spain and Latin American does not take place vis-a-vis, but under the commercial rules set by the US audiovisual mega-industry. Finally, it is a (partial) mistake to eulogize cultural miscegenation, migrancy and rhizomatic self-proliferation when many emancipatory, anti-imperialist movements have traditionally found and still find traction in autochthonous practices and habits. This is why the idea of a national cinema and specially of a national-popular cinema still deserves a careful, more dialectical attention.

The “Homogenization Process” in Romania

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-394
Author(s):  
Roxana Stoenescu
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Homogenization Process ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The One ◽  
Ideological Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship

"The present research examines the relationship between the development of the nation state and homogenization efforts in Romania. On the one hand, this requires examining the establishment of ideological and dictatorial power practices that emerge from the historical context of capitalist and imperialist developments. On the basis of which the national conceptions of a closed “body” evolved, and thus certain groups, experienced because of their “otherness” compared to the national similarities, social exclusivity. Thus, the racial ideological attitudes and the resulting homogenization and repression policies of the dictatorships of the 20th century emerged. The aim of this work is to show how the homogenization process took place in Romania. Keywords: dictatorship, total rule, nation, anti-Semitism, homogenization, modernization, Romania."

The Construction of Europe and the Concept of the Nation-State

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-260
Author(s):  
Bernard Bruneteau
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
European Community ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Economic Regulation ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The 1950S

The construction of Europe is often teleologically addressed as a result of an unstoppable trend towards federalism. Another angle on this history gives access to another logic: that of a European kind of nation-state which considers European integration not as an element in its decline, but as a tool to reorganise its power. This new youth for the old nation-state was linked as much to the historical context of the 1950s–1970s as to the specific rules of policy-making and to the economic regulation focus of the European Community.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 191-196
Author(s):  
Miroslava Chávez-García
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Past ◽  
Creative Art ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Present World

The conclusion details how the creative art of letter writing and 300 plus letters written in the 1960s and 1970s at the heart of this study have proven an invaluable source of insight on the past and present world. Indeed, the intricate and detail-laden missives provide a window onto the ways in which immigration policies and practices impacted the every-day lives of migrants and those left behind. They demonstrate, too, how migrants and non-migrants alike built, nurtured, and sustained intimate, emotional, and social relationships across vast distances, including nation-state divides. Despite the ability of distance and time to weaken, at best, and destroy, at worst, personal, family, and community relations, the notes indicate that migrants pursued their hopes and dreams and sometimes nearly lost and shattered them altogether. Embedded in a richly textured social, political, economic, cultural, and historical context, the notes provide a unique lens onto the lives of ordinary people negotiating extraordinary circumstances in their attempts to establish transnational lives that could sustain them and the loved ones who stayed at home.

War, Revolution, and Nation-Making in Lithuania, 1914-1923

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Balkelis
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Nation State ◽  
World War ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Modes Of Thought ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Great War

This book explores how war made the Lithuanian state and shaped society from the onset of the Great War in 1914 to the last waves of violence in 1923. As the very notion of an independent Lithuania was constructed during the war, violence became an essential part of the formation of Lithuanian state, nation, and identity. War was much more than simply the historical context in which the tectonic change from empire to nation state took place. It transformed people, policies, institutions, and modes of thought in ways that would continue to shape the nation for decades after the conflict subsided. By telling the story of the post-World War I conflict in Lithuania, the book focuses on the juncture between soldiers and civilians rather than the strategies and acts of politicians, generals, or diplomats. Its two main themes are the impact of military, social, and cultural mobilizations on the local population, and different types of violence that were so characteristic of the region throughout the period. The actors in this story are people displaced by war and mobilized for war: refugees, veterans, volunteers, peasant conscripts, prisoners of war, paramilitary fighters, and others who took to guns, not diplomacy, to assert their power. The book tells the story of how their lives were changed by war and how they shaped the society that emerged after war.

scholarly journals Shaping the National Body: Physical Education and the Transformation of German Nationalism in the Long Nineteenth Century

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Daniel Tröhler
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Body ◽  
German Nation ◽  
Successive Formation

The following article reconstructs the curricular story of physical education between the Prussian prohibition (1820) and reintroduction (1842) and broad dissemination of ‘gymnastic exercises’ between 1842 and 1871 and its full implementation around 1900 in Germany, focusing on the interrelation between constitutional reforms, nationalism and the development of a state-directed educational system, directed towards making the loyal future citizens. The successive formation of a German nation-state is being understood as the historical context of the implementation of gymnastics in the school curriculum; a process that in its success depended on the rise of nationalism as a dominant political ideology in the course of the nineteenth century.

scholarly journals Nation-State-University: Which Flag must a University Unfurl?

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Satarupa Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
State University ◽  
Indian Nationalism

There is a long history to the debate of nationalism. The Indian nationalism has emerged after a long people’s movement the truth to which is often denied by a range of forces who have ideological leanings towards the ideology of Hindutwa. This paper is an attempt to revisit the historical context in which Indian nationalism has emerged and evaluate it in reference to the contemporary time. It emphasizes on the relation between the nation and the state with special reference to its impact on the universities. Further, the paper suggests that in order to uphold the idea of university and nation, an inclusive and secular idea of nation has to be espoused. Lastly, it suggests that a university needs to foster a non sectarian approach and broaden its vision for an internationalist outlook.

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