Archives

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Oana Panaïté
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
State Policies ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Intermediate Space ◽  
Archival Institution ◽  
French Culture ◽  
Colonial Archives ◽  
Conservation And Management

The archive is both an object and a practice where history and memory converge. Yet this French site of memory is also defined by what it leaves out, i.e. the colonial past. This article examines two sites – that is, two forms and practices of document conservation and management along with their public and didactic uses – that define the postcolonial context in France. The first is represented by former colonial archives (Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration; Archives nationales d’outre-mer) whose relocation and renaming reflects public attitudes and state policies of obfuscation rather than disclosure of the colonial past. The second site is literature (novels by Condé, Monénembo, Chamoiseau and Sebbar), which operates as an intermediate space between memory and history and a realm of living memory that assumes the responsibility of remembering by fulfilling the three tasks incumbent upon the archival institution: managing public recollections, salvaging private memories, as well as conserving, selecting, organizing, and transmitting unrecorded or unacknowledged phenomena and events for social, political, and cultural purposes. The article also considers the lacunae in metropolitan literary history that constitutes, in the post-Lansonian French culture, a nation-building archival genre.

scholarly journals Political affiliation predicts public attitudes toward gray wolf ( Canis lupus ) conservation and management

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily M. Eeden ◽  
Sergey Rabotyagov ◽  
Morgan Kather ◽  
Carol Bogezi ◽  
Aaron J. Wirsing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Canis Lupus ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Political Affiliation ◽  
Gray Wolf ◽  
Conservation And Management

Reviews: History and Memory, Historiography: An Introduction, Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania, Biography, a Brief History, Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor., Brave Community. The Digger Movement in the English Revolution, Bloody Romanticism: Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation, 1776–1832, the Feminization of Fame 1750–1850, the Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau, Master and Servant. Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age, William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words, Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State, Literary Modernity between the Middle East and Europe, Textual Transactions in Nineteenth-Century Arabic, English, and Persian Literatures., African Pasts: Memory and History in African Literatures, the Little MagazineCubittGeoffrey, History and memory, Manchester University Press, 2007, pp. viii + 272, pb. £12.99.RogerSpalding and ParkerChristopher, Historiography: An Introduction , Manchester University Press, 2007, pp. 156, pb. £9.99.KarinLittau, Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania , Polity Press, 2006, pp. xi + 194, £55, pb. £17.99.NigelHamilton, Biography, A Brief History , Harvard University Press, 2007, pp. 345, pb. £14.95.SoniaMassai, Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor. Cambridge University Press, 2007. pp. xii + 254, £63.JohnGurney, Brave Community. The Digger Movement in the English Revolution , Manchester University Press, 2007, pp. xiii + 236, £55.IanHaywood, Bloody Romanticism: Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation, 1776–1832 , Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xi + 270, £50ClaireBrock, The Feminization of Fame 1750–1850 , Palgrave/Macmillan2006, pp. ix + 242, £45.DeborahLogan (ed.), The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau , Pickering and Chatto, 2007, 5 vols: pp. xxxii + 356, viii + 345, viii + 392, viii + 376, viii + 501. $750.00CarolynSteedman, Master and Servant. Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age , Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. xi + 263, £45, £17.99;LightAlison, Mrs Woolf and the Servants. The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service , Penguin/Fig Tree, 2007, pp. xxiii + 376, £20.RichardGodden, William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words , Princeton University Press, 2007. pp. x + 251, $39.50.BruceRobbins, Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State , Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. xviii + 328, $35KamranRastegar, Literary Modernity between the Middle East and Europe, Textual transactions in nineteenth-century Arabic, English, and Persian literatures. Routledge, 2007. pp. xv+176. £70.00.TimWoods, African Pasts: Memory and History in African Literatures , Manchester University Press, 2007, pp. xii + 291, £55.SuzanneW. Churchill, The Little Magazine Others and the Renovation of Modern American Poetry , Ashgate, 2006, pp. xii + 290, £55.

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-101
Author(s):  
Matthew Neufeld ◽  
Sean Greenwood ◽  
Gary Farnell ◽  
Peter Clark ◽  
Mark Bayer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Common Good ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Harriet Martineau ◽  
English Revolution ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theories Of Reading ◽  
Complex Words

National Identity and Political Legitimacy in Turkmenistan*

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahram Akbarzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
National Population ◽  
Political Events

This paper traces political events and modes of generating legitimacy in Turkmenistan since the Soviet collapse. The emphasis here is on state policies and social movements that relate to “nation building” for their contribution to political legitimacy. The extent of nation-building success is not an immediate subject of inquiry, for this paper is not about public perception and bottom-up response to state policies, but the reverse. It is certain that state-sponsored proclamations and nationalist ideas espoused by the intelligentsia do not always find resonance among the national population at large. However, attention given to social movements in this paper may compensate for this shortcoming in a small way. It must be stated that social movements in Turkmenistan, and Central Asia, as a whole, have been top heavy. They were principally initiated and steered by the urbanized intelligentsia. The extent of mass involvement in such movements is suspect and hard to gauge.

When Croatia Needed Serbs: Nationalism and Genocide in Sarajevo, 1941-1942

Slavic Review ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Greble Balić
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
State Policies ◽  
The State ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
World War ◽  
Independent State

While a central policy of the Independent State of Croatia during World War II called for the removal of “Serbs,” the majority of people who identified themselves (or were identified by the regime) as Serbs in Sarajevo—the second largest city in the state—remained “safe.” In order to understand why this was the case, Emily Greble Balic examines the interplay between local identity politics and state policies of genocide and nation-building. In so doing, she sheds light on such broad issues as the ambiguity of national identity at the local level; the limitations of traditional understandings of “resistance”; and the options open to members of the victim, or “foreign” group, as a result of the disjunction between national and local agendas.

scholarly journals Historisitas Aliran Neo-Klasik Dalam Kesusastraan Arab

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Sitti Maryam
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
Previous Period ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
French Culture ◽  
History Of

Arabic literature has undergone such a long journey from the time of the beginning of the time of Jahili, the period of Islam, the period of Muawiyah service, Abasiah, the Ottoman dynasty, and the modern period until now. In each period of this development, Arabic literature experienced innovations that differentiated it from other periods. In the modern phase in particular, it turns out that Arabic literature has a variety of literary schools that have appeared alternately, both because of the motivation of criticism of the literary models that emerged before and because of refining other streams that emerged in the same period of time. The emergence of this neoclassical school was initially a reaction to Napoleon's arrival in Egypt in 1798, which marked the entry of French culture into the Arab world. This school also maintains strong Arabic poetry rules, for example the necessity to use wazan, qāfiyah, the number of words is very large, the uslūb is very strong, the themes still follow the previous period, such as madah, ritsa (lamentations), ghazal, fakhr, and the movement from one topic to another in one qasidah (ode) Problems raised in this study include: 1. What is the history of Arabic literature? 2. What are the factors that arouse Arabic literature? 3. Who are the pioneers of the neoclassical school? The results in this study are: 1. The history of Arabic literature has experienced such a long journey from the period beginning at the time of Jahili, the period of Islam, the period of Muawiyah's service, Abasiah, the Ottoman dynasty, and the modern period until now. During the Abbasid period there was a period of emotion in Arabic literature, and suffered a setback during the Ottoman period until the beginning of this phase since the reign of Muhammad Ali in Egypt after colonialization Francis ended in 1801. 2. The factors include: Al-Madaris (School -school), Al-Mathba'ah (Printing), Ash-Shuhuf / Al-Jaro'id (Newspaper), and Tarjamah.3. One of the pioneers of the neoclassical school of Arabic poetry or commonly called al-Muhāfizun is Mahmud Sami al Barudi Keywords: arabic literary history, factors, flow, neo classical figure

scholarly journals Minority Response to Ethnic Democracy

Intersections ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolis Dambrauskas
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
Ethnic Minority Population ◽  
Perception Of Threat ◽  
Minority Policies

This article focuses on the evolution of Polish minority responses to Lithuanian minority policies in the post-EU-accession period.  State-minority conflicts in Lithuania have not generated violence or minority radicalization, despite continuing discontent among members of the state’s Polish minority (which constitutes Lithuania’s largest ethnic minority population) and the failure of the Lithuanian state to resolve the causes of discontent.  Employing Smooha’s concept of ethnic democracy, the article addresses this puzzle through an ethnographic exploration of the views held by members of the Polish minority about the Lithuanian state’s policies of nation-building.  The findings reveal a diverse set of critical perceptions among Poles in Lithuania, which emphasize the ineffectiveness of state policies in addressing minority needs.  However, a shared perception of threat from Russia, generated after the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, helps to sustain the regime’s stability and its strategy of stalling the resolution of minority concerns.

Between Hospitality and Hostility: Public Attitudes and State Policies Toward Syrian Refugees in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sefa Secen ◽  
Mustafa Gurbuz
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitudes ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Syrian Civil War ◽  
The Face ◽  
Syrian Conflict

This article provides an overview of the public attitudes and state policies toward Syrian refugees in Turkey between 2011 and 2020. Turkey’s policies toward refugees and the Syrian conflict have gradually changed over the course of the last nine years (2011–2020). Turkey’s legal approach to Syrian refugees has transformed from nonrecognition to recognition and from recognition to integration. Likewise, its military strategy has grown from one of limited engagement into one of active engagement in the face of ISIS attacks and YPG’s consolidation of power in northern Syria. Contrary to the generous policies adopted toward Syrian refugees during the early years of the Syrian civil war, a nativist turn and the weaponization of refugees against the European Union came to characterize the country’s approach in recent years as the country became more involved militarily in the Syrian conflict.

Adapting to Changing Contexts of Choice: The Nation-Building Strategies of Unrecognized Silesians and Rusyns

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 915-934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Dembinska
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Group Action ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Assimilation Process ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. The article explores the relationship between institutional constraints and nation-building. Non-recognized Rusyns in Ukraine and Silesians in Poland respond instrumentally to state definitions of “minority.” Moreover, both groups adjust their strategies to European structures and discourses which provide new ways to frame their identity claims. Institutions determine the constraints and incentives of group action. Identity is not only constructed, but is reconstructed in a rational way. Contrary, however, to the rational choice instrumental perspective which would predict an assimilation process, state policies encourage the Rusyns and Silesians to re-imagine and reinforce their distinctiveness.Résumé. L'article examine le lien qui existe entre les contraintes institutionnelles et l'édification de la nation. Non reconnus, les Ruthènes en Ukraine et les Silésiens en Pologne réagissent instrumentalement aux définitions du terme «minorité» établies par ces États. De plus, les deux groupes adaptent leurs stratégies aux structures et aux discours de l'Europe, qui leur permet de formuler leurs revendications identitaires d'une nouvelle manière. Les institutions établissent les contraintes et les incitatifs à l'action collective. L'identité n'est pas seulement construite, elle est reconstruite de façon rationnelle. Contrairement, toutefois, à la perspective instrumentale du choix rationnel qui aurait prédit un processus d'assimilation, les politiques étatiques incitent les Ruthènes et les Silésiens à ré-imaginer et à renforcer leur identité distincte.

scholarly journals Platsens sanning. Performativitet och gränsdragningar i tornedalsk litteraturhistoria och grammatik

Nordlit ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Anne Heith
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistic ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Linguistic Minorities ◽  
National Tradition ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Year 2000

The language Meänkieli is an official minority language in Sweden since the year 2000. The acknowledgement of the existence of historical linguistic minorities reflects the fact that  Sweden  has  always  been  a multiethnic  and  multilingual  space.  Long  before  the present day borders were established there were Sami people and Finno-Ugric groups of people in the northernmost parts of Scandinavia. Since a couple of decades the cultural mobilization among the Swedish Tornedalians has been intensified. Publishing houses which  publish  in  Meänkieli (previously  called  Tornedalian  Finnish)  have  been established. Furthermore there are conscious attempts at constructing a literary tradition and at producing grammar books of Meänkieli. In 2007 the first volume of a Tornedalian literary history co-authored by Bengt Pohjanen and Kirsti Johansson was published, Den tornedalsfinska  litteraturen. Från  Kexi  till  Liksom.  Two  years  later  a  second  volume, Den tornedalsfinska  litteraturen.  Från  Kalkkimaa  till  Hilja  Byström,  was published. Both volumes performatively construct a specific Tornedalian literary tradition which is distinguished  from  a  Swedish  national tradition.  This  may  be  interpreted  as  a  deconstruction of notions of a homogeneous Swedish nation through the production of local truths which challenge culturally homogenizing nation-building.   

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