Cowboys, Icebergs, Anarchists and Toreadors: The Paradoxes and Possibilities of the Francophone Belgian Road Cinema

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gott
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
National Identities ◽  
French Language ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Fortress Europe

This chapter attempts to answer the questions: ‘what, and where, is Belgian road cinema?’ Doing so involves considering the European-ness of Belgian film as well as its national specificity and connection to wider French-language cultural categories and industries. This chapter analyses five films: Eldorado (Bouli Lanners, 2008), L'iceberg (Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy, 2005), Quand la mer monte (Jeanne Moreau and Gilles Porte, 2004), Les folles aventures de Simon Konianski/Simon Konianski (Micha Wald, 2008) and Aaltra (Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine, 2004, France/Belgium).Although these voyages generally engage with national culture – or cultures, in the case of Belgium – the limits of the nation-state no longer adequately contain the cultures and spaces explored in Belgian road cinema. Citizenship in contemporary Belgium is reframed as inherently linked to mobility, a stance that rejects fixed, monolithic identity formulations and the closed spaces associated with national identities and conceptions of Fortress Europe.

In Defence of Methodological Nationalism: Immigrants and the Irish Nation-State

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Bryan Fanning
Keyword(s):  
National Identities ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Irish Case

The focus of this article is on tensions between transnationalism and methodological nationalism in the sociology of immigration, with reference to sociological analyses of the Irish case. Cosmopolitans, critical theorists and others who emphasis global interdependences, inequalities and risks see the focus on the nation-state as deeply flawed. The case for sociological transnationalism is that it addresses lives lived at odds with borders, nation-state containers and the cages of national identities. It challenges perceptions that the nation-state, a relatively new human invention, is natural, inevitable or static. However, both nationalism and ethnicity have persisted as categorical identities invoked by elites and other participants in political and social struggles and need to be still taken seriously.

The Dissemination of Development

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 577-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Power
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Writing Development ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Postcolonial Africa

In this paper I consider the ways in which discourses of development enframe postcolonial Africa. The dissemination of development is discussed in three principal ways. First, constructions of national identities and of the nation-state and their dissemination through development discourse is considered. Second, the textual dissemination of meaning through the process of writing development is explored with specific reference to Hegel's writings on the principle of development. Third, the dissemination of historical and geographical worlds through discourses of development is considered with the continued durability of the idea of three worlds as the key focal point of discussion. I formulate an antidevelopment incite which attempts to disrupt the enframing of postcolonial Africa through ‘Western’ discourses of development. The paper concludes with a discussion of how the worlds of development have proven so persistent, and of the implications for a more radical ‘post-colonial’ development geography.

scholarly journals The enlightenment and the beginnings of modern Serbian culture

Balcanica ◽  
2006 ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Ljubinka Trgovcevic
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Habsburg Empire ◽  
Value Of Knowledge ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Creation

The Enlightenment, mostly in its Austrian form, influenced in many ways the Serbs both in the Habsburg Empire and in the Principality of Serbia, still under Ottoman suzerainty. First, its emphasis on the value of knowledge and science raised the awareness of the importance of education and contributed to its development. Religious tolerance and anticlericalism placed Orthodox Serbs side by side with representatives of other nations and religions and helped them to liberate themselves from the strong traditionalist impact of their church. Both education and a new awareness of their own rights strengthened national consciousness, eventually leading to the creation of a nation state and modern national culture.

FORESTRY EXPERTISE AND NATIONAL NARRATIVES: SOME CONSEQUENCES FOR OLD-GROWTH CONFLICTS IN FINLAND

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eeva Berglund
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Forest Products Industry ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Timber Products ◽  
Sustained Yield

AbstractEnvironmentalists, especially old-growth activists, often rely on expert discourses which effectively disempower those whose livelihoods depend on forest products. They are often said to do this by fetishising nature as the other. In Finland, which is perhaps the world's most forestry-dependent country, old-growth activism opposing the forest products industry and sustained-yield forestry clearly expresses both desires to seek connection with sublime nature, but also to control and manage nature in an expert idiom much like that of the forestry profession itself. To help explain the prominence of expert discourses the paper charts the historical emergence of Finland as a nation-state, made economically dependent on timber products, but also characterised by a national culture emphasising forest-nature as something quintessentially Finnish. These two national narratives helped seal a national "forest consensus" which is now, however, being challenged with the very language that created it in the first place.

scholarly journals Racializing Homophobia: Tracing Sexual Political Discourse within Europe’s “Refugee Crisis” in Berlin

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (Summer) ◽  
pp. 46-58
Author(s):  
Marlene Soulier
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
German Nation ◽  
A Site ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Discourses relating to gender and sexualities have long been a tool for the perpetuation of racialized “othering” and have contributed to the strengthening of national identities and boundaries as they reproduce binary constructions of “us” and “them.” As the German nation-state reinvents itself as multicultural, tolerant, and sexually liberated, these discourses serve to mark the racialized body as a site of backwardness, sexism, and homophobia, and thus justify its segregation and exclusion exemplified in the restrictive practices of housing, mobility restrictions, and deportation of asylum seekers and migrants. This paper aims to trace the unfolding of discourses in and between some dominant organizational structures in Berlin that advocate for LGBT refugees and asylum seekers. It argues that the claim for citizenship of some formerly excluded sexual others is contingent on the promotion of a very specific notion of sexual identity and participation in the orientalisation/ethnicisation of homophobia.

Indigenous Peoples and Nation-States in Spanish America, 1780–2000

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florencia E. Mallon
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Nation State Formation ◽  
Independence Movements

This article shifts the discussion of race from Afro- to Indo-America, focusing on a corpus of historical studies that underline how Amerindians, anti-Indian racism, and Indigenism have played a central role in the formation of nations and national identities along the mountainous backbone of Spanish America. With the crisis of the Spanish colonial system and the rise of independence movements, emerging elites interested in projects of nation-state formation entered into new forms of negotiation and confrontation with indigenous peoples and their visions for both inclusion and autonomy. While these negotiations differed markedly from those that had earlier taken place between Natives and the colonial state, they were conditioned by the forms of conquest and colonization that had gone before, as well as by emerging political, geographic, military, and economic distinctions among the newly independent societies.

scholarly journals Survey of surgical and radiological semiology modules and their adaptation to the Arabic cultural environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-440
Author(s):  
A. Ben Abdel Aziz ◽  
M. Ben Fadhl ◽  
I. Harrabi ◽  
H. Ghannem
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
French Language ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Scientific Concepts ◽  
Medical Teaching ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
Culturally Adapted

Manyprofessors of medicine oppose the Arabization of the teaching of medical science in the Maghreb countries, under pretext of the inability of Arabic to convey scientific concepts objectively compared with French. We made a qualitative survey of surgical and radiological semiology used in the Faculty of Medecine, Ibn El Jazzar. Terms, expressions and synonyms were identified and classified according to their cultural load into two categories: “culturally adapted terms” and “culturally strange terms” in relation to the national culture. It was evident that the majority of the recorded expression were based on Western culture. Thus the hypothesis of the neutrality of the French language in the medical teaching is invalid. Furthermore the use of French poses difficulties for students in underst and ing the scientific matter taught, and indirectly promotes Western culture within the medical academic establishments of the Arabic world. The use of the mother tongue in teaching medicine is today an educational necessity

Die Konstruktion einer nationalen Identität in Namibia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cosima Crawford
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Interests

What is the essence of national identity? Why is this collective sentiment such an important feature for governments? How is it that the idea that the nation-state is a natural habitat for a culturally-defined, politically non-descript collective is still so very much alive, even though intellectual concepts that show quite the opposite, namely how national culture is constructed according to the political interests of an established regime, have become popular already back in the 80s? The author addresses these and related questions and examines the various initiatives that sought to create a national identity in Namibia during the first decade following its independence.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document