scholarly journals Imagining the farm: spectacle, nationalism, and agri-tourism in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Poetker
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Farm Life ◽  
Farm Tourism ◽  
Physical Manifestation

"My decision to explore the spectaclization of rural and farm life in Canada was fuelled by the desire to answer the following questions: • What motivates the nostalgia and the longing that people have for farming, pioneer and rural life? • Why are people longing for this? What is it about modernity that is so disrupting and fragmenting that people would pay money to visit an old farm, to milk a cow, to pick some apples? • How are farm tourism and nationalism connected? Is the farm as tourist site a physical manifestation of the desire to locate a strong national identity? • What are the implications and complications of this transformation of the farm? The nature and length of this research paper is insufficient in dealing with the topic of farm tourism in all its detail. Rather than offer a conclusive discussion on the nature and implications of farm tourism, I hope this paper will bring to light issues of local and rural manifestations of nationalism, otherness, longing and fragmentation as well as call attention to the implications and complications that potentially arise out of agri-tourism" -- From Introduction, page 4.

scholarly journals Imagining the farm: spectacle, nationalism, and agri-tourism in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Poetker
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Farm Life ◽  
Farm Tourism ◽  
Physical Manifestation

"My decision to explore the spectaclization of rural and farm life in Canada was fuelled by the desire to answer the following questions: • What motivates the nostalgia and the longing that people have for farming, pioneer and rural life? • Why are people longing for this? What is it about modernity that is so disrupting and fragmenting that people would pay money to visit an old farm, to milk a cow, to pick some apples? • How are farm tourism and nationalism connected? Is the farm as tourist site a physical manifestation of the desire to locate a strong national identity? • What are the implications and complications of this transformation of the farm? The nature and length of this research paper is insufficient in dealing with the topic of farm tourism in all its detail. Rather than offer a conclusive discussion on the nature and implications of farm tourism, I hope this paper will bring to light issues of local and rural manifestations of nationalism, otherness, longing and fragmentation as well as call attention to the implications and complications that potentially arise out of agri-tourism" -- From Introduction, page 4.

scholarly journals The Returned Yank as Site of Memory in Irish Popular Culture

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1175-1195 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANN SCHOFIELD
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Native Land ◽  
Population Loss ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the figure of the Returned Yank in Irish popular culture to explain the contradiction between the Irish preoccupation with the figure of the emigrant who returns and the low number of emigrants who actually do return to their native land. The article argues that the Returned Yank is a lieu de mémoire or site of memory – a concept defined by French historian Pierre Nora as “any significant entity, whether material or non-material in nature, which by dint of human will or the work of time has become a symbolic element of the memorial heritage of any community” and used by scholars of African American and other cultures with particular concerns about memory and history. As a site of memory, the Irish Returned Yank allows the Irish to explore the meaning of massive population loss, the relationship with a diasporic population of overseas Irish, and tensions between urban and rural life. The article also suggests a relationship between Irish national identity and the Returned Yank.

scholarly journals Kim and Kip in the Mirror of Mimicry: A Postcolonial Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
Dr. MD Rakibul Islam ◽  
DR. Nazia Hasan
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Interesting Aspect ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Comfort Zone ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Postcolonial Study

The research paper aims to give an accurate account of how Kirpal Singh/Kip in The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje copies the socio-cultural and linguistic norms of the Europeans (colonizers) unlike Kipling’s Kim who emulates the Eastern people (colonized) and their culture. They are examples of going through a long drawn process of growing up, looking into the mirror of mimicry. Kip joins the English army as a grown up, learns the need to show affinity to the new culture by way of imitation, adopting their ways to weave a comfort zone. Being different could be an assaulting fact for both sides, Kip is quick to realize that. But his childish view of looking down upon his native culture is the irony of mimicry. It wipes out the original being to rewrite a new identity. Kip leaves the small community sprouted accidentally in the Italian monastery, showing traces of a stricken conscience. Kim, by the virtue of living in close company of Indians, adopts their habits and manners without any qualm, in a most unconscious manner. He never worries to look or sound his original self which he has not experienced for long. Thus, a kind of reverse mimicry is his fate and character when we look at him as an outsider living as an Indian native. The ambivalence of their characters, presented by both, is an interesting aspect of mimicry. In the paper, we have used the views of postcolonial and cultural literary theorists on mimicry, deliberating upon how with the effect of both the processes, Kip and Kim, consciously or unconsciously, get their national identity peeled off, affixing new hybrid identity.  

scholarly journals Moving Beyond Identity: The Tibet Question Revisited

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jake Ningjian Lin
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
State Building ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Chinese Nationalism ◽  
Alternative Approach

<p>This research paper explores the discursive construction of China and Tibet’s national identity, and how it interrelates with China-Tibet relations. In contrast to studies suggesting a defining and determinant role of national identity on China-Tibet relations, this research paper argues that the collective identity of Tibet and China is a hegemonic and highly contested construction, and Tibet and China, therefore, should look beyond identity and search for an alternative approach to nation/state building without succumbing to either Chinese nationalism or Tibetan nationalism. Drawing on the work of some of the critical theorists, this research paper shows that it is bound to fail to build a political community based on a collective national identity. This research paper proposes that the authorities of Tibet and China should negotiate for future institutional reform of the Tibet Question by the recognition of the contingent identities of the multitude.</p>

scholarly journals Moving Beyond Identity: The Tibet Question Revisited

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jake Ningjian Lin
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
State Building ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Chinese Nationalism ◽  
Alternative Approach

<p>This research paper explores the discursive construction of China and Tibet’s national identity, and how it interrelates with China-Tibet relations. In contrast to studies suggesting a defining and determinant role of national identity on China-Tibet relations, this research paper argues that the collective identity of Tibet and China is a hegemonic and highly contested construction, and Tibet and China, therefore, should look beyond identity and search for an alternative approach to nation/state building without succumbing to either Chinese nationalism or Tibetan nationalism. Drawing on the work of some of the critical theorists, this research paper shows that it is bound to fail to build a political community based on a collective national identity. This research paper proposes that the authorities of Tibet and China should negotiate for future institutional reform of the Tibet Question by the recognition of the contingent identities of the multitude.</p>

Pastoral Australia

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Pearson ◽  
Jane Lennon
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
European Settlement ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Look ◽  
Settler Society ◽  
Market Infrastructure

Pastoral Australia tells the story of the expansion of Australia's pastoral industry, how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settler society. The rural life that once saw Australia 'ride on the sheep's back' is no longer what defines us, yet it is largely our history as a pastoral nation that has endured in heritage places and which is embedded in our self-image as Australians. The challenges of sustaining a pastoral industry in Australia make a compelling story of their own. Developing livestock breeds able to prosper in the Australian environment was an ongoing challenge, as was getting wool and meat to market. Many stock routes, wool stores, abattoirs, wharf facilities, railways, roads, and river and ocean transport systems that were developed to link the pastoral interior with the urban and market infrastructure still survive. Windmills, fences, homesteads, shearing sheds, bores, stock yards, travelling stock routes, bush roads and railheads all changed the look of the country. These features of our landscape form an important part of our heritage. They are symbols of a pastoral Australia, and of the foundations of our national identity, which will endure long into the future.

scholarly journals The CBC's "Seven wonders of Canada" : exclusionary aspects of a project of national identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Starzynski
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Major Research ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
National Space

The topic of my major research paper is national identity in the context of cultural pluralism. The paper has as its goal a socio-cultural analysis of national belonging. Immigration policy as gateway has, historically, excluded certain groups from entry to the country; nationalisms have prevented some of those who have gained entry to the country from gaining entry to the nation. I argue that the CBC's"Seven Wonder of Canada" campaign is one such nationalism, revealing nationalist tropes which include the cultural centre's longstanding tradition of identifying with the landscape and its more recent tradition of identifying with multicultural ideology - in its construction of national identity. Ultimately, this paper demonstrates that the campaign reflects an a-historic notion of national identity in which both geography and multiculturalism are used by the cultural centre to exclude. The construction of an exclusionary notion of national identity is necessarily challenged by notions of cultural pluralism. In the context of imbalanced power relations, mainstream Canadians, the cosmopolite and the Other vie for a share of national space.

scholarly journals The CBC's "Seven wonders of Canada" : exclusionary aspects of a project of national identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Starzynski
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Major Research ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
National Space

The topic of my major research paper is national identity in the context of cultural pluralism. The paper has as its goal a socio-cultural analysis of national belonging. Immigration policy as gateway has, historically, excluded certain groups from entry to the country; nationalisms have prevented some of those who have gained entry to the country from gaining entry to the nation. I argue that the CBC's"Seven Wonder of Canada" campaign is one such nationalism, revealing nationalist tropes which include the cultural centre's longstanding tradition of identifying with the landscape and its more recent tradition of identifying with multicultural ideology - in its construction of national identity. Ultimately, this paper demonstrates that the campaign reflects an a-historic notion of national identity in which both geography and multiculturalism are used by the cultural centre to exclude. The construction of an exclusionary notion of national identity is necessarily challenged by notions of cultural pluralism. In the context of imbalanced power relations, mainstream Canadians, the cosmopolite and the Other vie for a share of national space.

scholarly journals Proces integracije lokalne zadarske sastavnice hrvatske književnosti u središnju nacionalnu književnost – od (pred)romantizma do moderne

2021 ◽  
pp. 389-407
Author(s):  
Zvjezdana Rados
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Revival Movements ◽  
Folk Stories

The paper will analyze Zadar’s components of Croatian literature in the period from 1840s until the first decade of the 20th century, marked by nationalintegrative processes and forming a modern national identity. The research object will be the specifics of the development of that part of Croatian literature as well as its relations to literary and historical processes in the center, the mainstream, of national literature – from national revival movements or the period of preromanticism and romanticism, through pre-realism and realism to the period of moderna and stronger integration of Zadar’s (provincial, Dalmatian) segment into central, national Croatian literature. Considerable attention will be paid to the processes of mutual permeating, accepting and rejecting, affirming and negating of Zadar’s periphery, one of the most important peripheries of the Croatian literary canon, and its national center, Zagreb’s mainstream. This issue will be presented through paradigmatic writers and journals that marked key periods of Croatian linguistic and literary homogenization: in the period of (pre)romanticism, during 1840s, this implies the journal Zora dalmatinska and paradigmatic personalities of the literary circle formed around that revival journal (Šime Starčević and Petar Preradović, even Ana Vidović); in the period of folk-enlightenment (pre)realism, from the sixties to the end of the eighties, this includes paradigmatic personality of the Croatian National Revival in Dalmatia – politician and writer Mihovil Pavlinović, as well as Iskra journal and its editor Nikola Šimić (a writer who created a specific peripheral genre of folk stories from rural life); in the time of disintegration of realism and turning towards modernist styles this implies the initiator of Croatian modern literary criticism Jakša Čedomil and the prominent names of the Croatian literary canon in the period of moderna – Ivo Vojnović, Vladimir Nazor and Milan Begović, as well as Lovor magazine of Milutin Cihlar Nehajev.

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