Chapter 3. Disrupting our Imagined Communities: The Role of Ritual in Promoting Cosmopolitan Curriculum Communities

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Imagined Communities

Netzwerk, Bruderschaft, Zelle Die Rolle von Geschlecht und Gewalt bei der Formierung neuer religionspolitischer Gruppen in ,Okzident' und ,Orient'

2006 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-132
Author(s):  
Ulrike Brunotte
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
European Regions ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
New Wars ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Comparative Examination

AbstractTaking as a starting point the reality of a worldwide return of religion in the cultural and political spheres, the article undertakes a comparative examination of the role of gender metaphors and performance in building of new religious groups as "imagined communities". These groups have increasingly taken the form of fundamentalist and Islamist networks, especially in non-European regions including the United States, and in the context of ,,new wars."

The Origins of Ethnic Consciousness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Lange
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Ethnic Consciousness ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
Strong Attachment

This chapter examines the origins of ethnic consciousness, with particular emphasis on the rise of powerful ethnic consciousnesses shared by large numbers of strangers. It first considers the propensity to categorize people into ingroups and outgroups as well as factors that contributed to the rise of new and abstract conceptualizations of community, including citizenship. It then explores the role of the states, education, and religion in creating imagined communities of strangers and in molding and popularizing ethnic consciousness. It also discusses the micro-dynamics and context of ethnic frameworks and concludes with the argument that ethnic consciousness is a necessary condition for ethnic violence because it divides the world into ethnic categories and fosters strong attachment to ethnicity.

Remaking memory and the agency of the aesthetic

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-23
Author(s):  
Ann Rigney
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article examines the role of the creative arts in renegotiating the border between memorable and unmemorable lives. It does so with specific reference to the (un)forgetting of the colonial soldiers in European armies during World War One. Focussing on the role of aesthetic form in generating memorability, it shows how the creative use of a medium can help redefine the borders of imagined communities by commanding the attention of individual subjects and hence providing conditions for a cognitive and affective opening to the memory of strangers. It concludes that future studies of transformations in collective memory should take a multiscalar approach which takes into account both the shifting social frameworks of memory and the small changes that occur in the micro-politics of viewing and reading.

Sport and National Identity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilwyn Porter
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the role of sport in the construction of national identity. It focuses initially on sport as a cultural practice possessing the demonstrable capacity to generate events and experiences through which imagined communities are made real. The governments of nation-states or other political agencies might intervene directly in this process, using sport as a form of propaganda to achieve this effect. More often, however, the relationship between sport and national identity is reproduced in everyday life, flagged daily by the mass media as an expression of banal nationalism. Particular attention is given to the role of sports that are indigenous to particular nations and also to sports engaged in competitively between nations. These have contributed in different ways to the making of national identities.

The Missing Religious Factor in Imagined Communities

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (10) ◽  
pp. 1395-1414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Tiryakian
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Weak States ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Religious Factor ◽  
New Social Order

Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities has redrawn understanding of the loci and agents of modern nationalism. Whereas standard interpretations had privileged the movements of modernity of Western nation-states, Anderson’s analysis gave priority to the role of peripheral elites in “imagining the nation” beyond the boundaries of the everyday world. What Anderson leaves out altogether in his seminal study is the bearing of the religious factor in various peripheral settings in such regions as sub-Sahara Africa and East Asia. This article, extending Max Weber’s notion of charismatic leadership, proposes that in concrete cases of “colonial situations” in Africa and in two East Asian countries of weak states, religio-political figures arose seeking a new social order that had mass appeal. Their successes and failures should be seen as integral comparative aspects of nationalism and modernity

scholarly journals Firmer Roots of Ethnicity and Nationalism? New Historical Research and Its Implications for Political Science

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 564-570
Author(s):  
Kurt Weyland
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Political Choice ◽  
Nationalist Movements ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Flexible Boundaries

Among social scientists, constructivism has long reigned supreme in the study of ethnicity, nationality, and nationalism. Accordingly, scholars have highlighted the role of cultural framing and political choice in the definition of ethnic categories, their fluidity, and their flexible boundaries. Conversely, they have deemphasized the historical roots of ethnicity and depicted nations as the contested products of nationalist movements and political leaders and as (merely) “imagined communities” (Anderson 1991). Although constructivism encompasses a broad gamut of theories that differ in the malleability ascribed to ethnicity (Chandra 2012, 19–22, 139–49), recent authors have emphasized its susceptibility to change by highlighting manipulation by political-electoral entrepreneurs (Wilkinson 2012) and focusing on “identity in formation” (Laitin 1998), “ethnicity without groups” (Brubaker 2004), and “imagined noncommunities” characterized by “national indifference” (Zahra 2010).

scholarly journals Looking for a Bookstore in Town: Intellectual Readers and the Death of “Gutenberg Galaxy”

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-67
Author(s):  
Maksym W. Kyrchanoff
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Mass Literature ◽  
On Line

The author analyses the problems of erosion of the book culture and the role of bookishness in the contemporary Western and Russian identities. While analysing the processes of disappearance and displacement of bookshops, the author presumes that culture of bookstores and communication subcultures in them cannot compete with networks and e-commerce. It is assumed that the logic of capitalism favours the progress of on-line bookstores, specialising in the serial and mass literature while independent bookstores prefer to sell intellectual, non-fiction, and academic books that are not interesting to consumer readers of mass culture. The author tries to analyse causes of private non-mass bookstores crisis. The author believes that intellectuals of 2000s were optimistic in their prognosis for the development of bookstores as spaces of cultural initiatives. By the end of 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the number of independent bookstores decreased significantly when on-line bookstores occupied their place. It is assumed that the cultures of reading, book collections, personal libraries lost the positions they held in the 20th century and even in the first decade of the 21st century. The author presumes that independent bookstores became cultural ghettos and intellectual reservations, when net bookstores became successful actors of the mass culture. In general, it is predicted that heterogeneous, regionally localised minority book cultures and reading strategies of the New Medievalism may replace the “mass” book as a cultural institution of a modern political imagined communities as elements of the dying Gutenberg Galaxy with its heterogeneous national identities.

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