scholarly journals Favourite Research Topics of Estonian Ethnographers Under Soviet Rule

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Indrek Jääts
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Traditional Agriculture ◽  
Soviet Rule ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Soviet Policy ◽  
Stalin Era ◽  
Peasant Culture

Abstract Estonian ethnography as one of the Estonia-related disciplines was tied with Estonian nationalism from the very beginning. Defined as a science investigating mainly the material side of vanishing traditional peasant culture in the 1920s, it fitted rather well with the Soviet understanding of ethnography as a sub discipline of history. Thanks to the major cooperation projects initiated and coordinated by ethnographers from Moscow, Soviet Estonian ethnographers could continue studying Estonian traditional peasant culture. Their favourite research topics (folk costume, peasant architecture and traditional agriculture) supported Estonian national identity, but also suited the framework of Soviet ethnography. Studying contemporary (socialist) everyday life was unpopular among Estonian ethnographers because the results had to justify and support Soviet policy. They did so unwillingly, and avoided it completely if possible. Despite of some interruption during the Stalin era, ethnography managed to survive as a science of the nation in Soviet Estonia.

Doing National Identity: Presentations in Everyday Life

2012 ◽  
Vol 81 (First Serie (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Bechhofer ◽  
David McCrone
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Everyday Life

scholarly journals Os transparentes: identidades nacionais em exibição na Angola de Ondjaki

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 543
Author(s):  
Silvia Valencich Frota
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Identity Discourses

Embora o fim dos nacionalismos tenha sido apregoado no final do século passado, estes ainda marcam presença em nossas sociedades contemporâneas. Neste artigo, a partir do romance de Ondjaki, procura-se identificar e analisar diferentes representações e discursos construídos sobre o tema. O que se quer entender é se os discursos de identidade nacional seguem invariáveis ou se apontam para a transformação, ou mesmo para o fim, da ideia de nação. No contexto da pós-modernidade, onde os conceitos de globalização e multiculturalidade são frequentemente chamados à discussão, importa observar em que termos essas identidades são construídas e/ou contestadas. Nesse sentido, a Luanda de Ondajki, com seu cotidiano de contatos entre pessoas das mais diversas origens, revela-se palco bastante fértil para a análise.********************************************************************The transparents: national identities on display in Ondjaki’s AngolaAbstract: Although the end of nationalisms has been proclaimed at the end of the last century, they are still present in our contemporary societies. This article, focused on Ondjaki’s novel, seeks to identify and analyze different representations and discourses constructed on the topic. What we want to understand is whether the national identity discourses remain the same or they indicate the transformation of the idea of nation, or even its end. In the context of postmodernity, where the concepts of globalization and multiculturalism are often called to the fore, it should be noted in which terms such identities are constructed and / or challenged. In this sense, Ondajki’s Luanda with its everyday life characterized by the contact between people from different places, seems to be a quite fertile field for analysis.Keywords: Identity; Nationalism; Cultural Studies

scholarly journals Empowered objects, powerless subjects: citizenship, religion, and political representation in twentieth-century Cuba

2008 ◽  
Vol 80 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 245-252
Author(s):  
Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Chapel Hill

[First paragraph]Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940. Alejandra Marina Bronfman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xi + 234 pp. (Paper US$ 19.95)Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, and National Identity. Christine Ayorinde. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. ix + 283 pp. (Cloth US$ 59.95)In the last ten years, research topics such as race and nation have been privileged areas for the historical and anthropological understanding of Caribbean and Latin American societies. Regarding Cuba in particular, social scientists have dedicated important scholarship to these issues by mapping conceptions of citizenship and political representation, while situating them within a broader debate on the making of the new postcolonial and republican society at the beginning of the twentieth century. By pursuing different aims and following distinct approaches, Alejandra Bronfman and Christine Ayorinde have made contributions to this academic literature. Through divergent theoretical and methodological perspectives, both of their books explore alternative ways of interpreting the making of the nation founded upon a multiple and fluid rhetoric of race.

scholarly journals STATE BUILDING AND THE LIMITS OF LEGIBILITY: KINSHIP NETWORKS AND KURDISH RESISTANCE IN TURKEY

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ceren Belge
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
State Power ◽  
State Building ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Disciplinary Practices ◽  
Nationalist Movements ◽  
Kinship Networks ◽  
Considerable Resistance

AbstractFollowing the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, the twin goals of centralizing state power and inscribing a uniform national identity on all citizens resulted in the proliferation of disciplinary practices that required changes in habits and everyday life as well as in the locus of faith, allegiance, and obedience. Nowhere were the repercussions felt as deeply as in the Kurdish regions, where the urge to create a new citizen sparked considerable resistance. This article suggests that alongside Kurdish nationalist movements, kinship networks and morality constituted an alternative reservoir of resistance to the new disciplinary practices that followed state building. By subverting state practices to make citizens legible, kinship networks, I argue, undermined the state's attempts to establish bureaucratic authority and create an exclusive identity.

José Vasconcelos, National Education, and Revolutionary Culture in Mexico

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Beezley
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Literacy Programs ◽  
Jose Vasconcelos ◽  
National Education ◽  
Educational Campaigns ◽  
Inclusive Society ◽  
The City

As Mexico’s minister of public education from 1921 to 1924, José Vasconcelos played a prominent role in efforts to create a new national identity expressing the 1910 Revolution’s goals of an inclusive society and equitable nation, opportunities created through education, and shared cultural expressions. Vasconcelos has been widely praised for his educational campaigns, especially in the countryside, among indigenous communities, and for his literacy programs in the city. According to these recent interpretations, his efforts as minister of public education have been both over- and underestimated. Nevertheless, the revolutionary national identity that he helped to foster with his discussion of mestizaje in La Raza Cósmica (The Cosmic Race; 1925) has since been ingrained into everyday life and culture.

scholarly journals National Identity and Social Integration in International Marriages between Anglophone Women and Korean Men

Asian Survey ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 630-652
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Son
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
South Korean ◽  
International Marriages ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
English Speaking

This article investigates the capacity and willingness of women from English-speaking countries, married to Korean men, to integrate into South Korean society, via examination of the expression of national identity in everyday life and the negotiation of relationships across socio-cultural boundaries.

Experiences of individuals with blindness or visual impairment during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Hungary

2021 ◽  
pp. 026461962199069
Author(s):  
Judit Gombas ◽  
Judit Csakvari
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Impact

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the measures of social distancing and national lockdown had a significant impact on everyday life. Individuals with BVI (blindness and visual impairment) are assumed to face increased barriers in numerous domains of their lives. This online survey research investigates, among Hungarian adults with BVI ( N = 132), the impact of the lockdown on their access to shopping, daily support needs, access to remote studies of higher education or work, and leisure habits. Respondents accounted for negative impacts of the lockdown on their participation and independence in all research topics. Issues of accessibility were common both concerning shopping for essential goods and access to remote study and work.

'They Give us the Categories and We Fill Ourselves in' Ethnic Thinking in Singapore

1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 451-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
State Support ◽  
Religious Festivals ◽  
The Future

AbstractThis paper will demonstrate the prevalence of 'ethnic thinking' in everyday life and the role which culture plays in defining individuals and groups in Singapore. I will argue that the Singapore state has intentionally created a national identity which rests on the idea of the assumed purity of the different ethnic groups which exist within that nation. Singpore's multi-racial policies force the heterogeneous character of the population into four 'races' and there are no officially recognised inter-ethnic individuals within the state. The official promotion of 'ethnic' culture which claims that ethnic identity and culture are somehow identical results in a culture of stereotypes which shapes everyday life - where people live and how they interact as neighbours, for example. The stereotypes are reinforced by religious festivals. While state support of ethnic differentiation has helped to prevent ethnic violence, the politicisation of ethnic identity may ironically encourage conflict in the future when ethnic and economic divisions coincide.

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