scholarly journals “An atheistic American is a contradiction in terms”1: Religion, Civic Belonging and Collective Identity in the United States

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amandine Barb
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Civic Belonging

scholarly journals Security communities and the habitus of restraint: Germany and the United States on Iraq

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
CORNELIU BJOLA ◽  
MARKUS KORNPROBST
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Security Community ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
Security Communities

ABSTRACTBorrowing from Norbert Elias, we introduce the habitus of restraint to the study of security communities. This habitus constitutes a key dimension of the glue that holds security communities together. The perceived compatibility of practices emanating from the habitus that members hold fosters the collective identity upon which a security community is built. The violation of a member’s habitus by the practices of another member, however, disrupts the reproduction of collective identity and triggers a crisis of the security community. Our analysis of Germany’s reaction to Washington’s case for war against Iraq provides empirical evidence for the salience of the habitus for the internal dynamics of security communities.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Nathan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Home Team ◽  
College Towns ◽  
Big Cities ◽  
Different Parts

This book explores the complicated, double-edged process of inclusion and exclusion, of rooting for the home team. It examines the ways different American communities (big cities, small rural towns, suburbs, college towns, and so forth) used or use sport to create and maintain a sense of their collective identity. Predicated on the idea that rooting for local athletes and home teams often symbolizes a community's preferred understanding of itself, and that doing so is an expression of connectedness, the book demonstrates how sport brings people together yet also contributes to separation, misunderstanding, and antagonism. It considers the complicated, multilayered lived experiences that arise from playing together, playing apart, and rooting for the home team by looking at professional and amateur sports, from the 1920s to the present, played in different parts of the United States: these include golf, basketball, baseball, softball, and football.

scholarly journals American, United Statian, USAmerican, or Gringos?

AmeriQuests ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Claudio Villafane Santos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Latin Americans

The text discusses the use of the word "American" when referring to people from, or citizens of, the United States of America. The fact that the citizens of the United States call themselves "Americans" causes disconfort for many Latin Americans, who see the appropriation of the collective identity of all peoples and countries of the Western Hemisphere as a clear act of cultural imperialism. The article discusses the historic origins and the consolidation of the use of "American" in this restrict sense.

: A British School of International Relations

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Dunne
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
British School ◽  
Great Debate ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Vexed Question ◽  
First World

After considering the vexed question of whether it is possible to speak of a collective identity shared by scholars working in Britain, this chapter examines the debate surrounding the birth of international relations in the aftermath of the First World War. It discusses the arguments mobilized by E. H. Carr against the so-called idealists. This leads into a discussion of the evolution of a distinctive voice in British international relations that sought to overcome the realist–idealist dualism which defined what has become known as the first ‘great debate’. The conclusion briefly considers how far contemporary thinking on international relations builds on this attempt to set out an agenda that was both different from politics as traditionally conceived, and different from international relations as pursued in the United States.

Ambiguous Financial Responsibilities: Second Wives and Alimony Reform Activism in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (17) ◽  
pp. 2474-2494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Elise Crowley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Financial Transfers ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Boundary Ambiguity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Financial Obligations

Alimony, which involves financial transfers from mostly men to women after a divorce, has recently received more scrutiny in the United States by members of an emerging social movement. These activists are attempting to change alimony policy in ways that economically benefit them. One important part of this movement are second wives, who ally themselves with their new husbands and against first wives in the pursuit of alimony reform. This analysis examines how these second wives articulate their objections to alimony by introducing the concept of economic boundary ambiguity, meaning in this case, a state of human relationships where financial obligations between first and second wives are contested. In addition to creating several tangible stressors, economic boundary ambiguity can also have important consequences for women’s own social identities as well as the collective identity and the success of the social movement overall.

scholarly journals The American Reception and Settlement of Hungarian Refugees in 1956–1957

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 197-205
Author(s):  
Peter Pastor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Educational Level ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
The People ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

In the wake of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, close to two hundred thousand Hungarians crossed into Austria.  About thirty thousand of these refugees were allowed to enter the United States. Their common experience of living under totalitarian communism and participating or being a witness to the exhilarating thirteen days of the revolution and their sudden, previously unplanned, departure from the homeland gave them a collective identity that was different from the one shared by the people of previous waves of Hungarian influx to the United States. The high educational level of the refugees attained before and after their arrival made their absorption into the mainstream relatively easy. The integration process was facilitated by the shaping of a positive image of the 1956 refugees by the US government and the media.  The reestablishment of the communist system in post-1956 Hungary contributed to the perception that, for the refugees in the United States, there was no hope for return to the homeland.  This assumption strengthened the attitudes of those who wished to embrace the American melting pot model.  Many of the 1956-ers in the United Sates, however, were also comfortable with the notion of ethnic pride and believed in the shaping of a dual national identity.

Recognition and Rapprochement

2018 ◽  
pp. 167-190
Author(s):  
Michelle Murray
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
Peaceful Rise ◽  
Legitimate Power ◽  
Anglo American

This chapter explores how the United States’ growing power and expansionist foreign policy came to be viewed as legitimate, thereby constructing its peaceful rise to world power status. It argues that the acts of recognition that emerged during the Venezuelan Crisis expressed a normative acceptance of American power and were routinized so as to structure Anglo-American relations at the turn of the twentieth century. Specifically, during the Spanish–American War British leaders—drawing from the recognitive speech acts that defined the Anglo-Saxon collective identity—restrained the European great powers from becoming involved in the war, enabling the United States to establish a sphere of influence in the Caribbean and an imperial presence in the Pacific. Likewise, the negotiations between Britain and the United States over the Isthmian Canal highlight the importance of mutual recognition in sustaining a peaceful power transition. The chapter shows how acts of recognition contributed to the social construction of the United States as a legitimate power, despite its aggressive and expansionist foreign policy.

Currents in Dominican American Literature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Kang ◽  
Silvio Torres-Saillant
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
American Literature ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Civic Belonging ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Dominican American

Dominican American literature comprises the body of creative writing in various genres by US-based authors of Dominican ancestry. Here, “Dominican” refers to people who trace their origins by birth or descent to the Dominican Republic, not to the island of Dominica in the Anglophone West Indies. “Dominican American,” in turn, applies to writers born, raised, and/or socialized in the United States, who received their schooling in general and, in particular, their literary education in this country irrespective of the extent of their involvement in the life of their ancestral homeland. Writing by Dominicans in the United States has a long history. Its existence reaches back at least to the first half of the 19th century, shining forth meaningfully in the 1990s, and showing little sign of abatement in the early decades of the 21st century. While this article concerns itself primarily with Dominican American writing, it seeks to answer predictable questions regarding the rapport of this corpus with the literary production of Dominican Republic-based writers and Dominican authors who have settled in the United States largely as immigrants, using Spanish as their literary language. The article distinguishes Dominican American literature from the writings of people who, beginning in the 19th century, came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as travelers, adventurers, and individual settlers, having left home for political or economic reasons. They could be exiles escaping danger or immigrants seduced by the possibility of enhancing their lives in the proverbial “land of milk and honey.” They tended to regard their time in the United States as temporary and yearned for the change of fortune—political or economic—that would bring them back home. However, having had their return either thwarted or delayed, they would often build families or raise any offspring that came with them to the receiving society. Their children, US-born or brought to the land while young enough to be socialized as US citizens, became Dominican American by default. US-born children of foreign parents who have pursued writing as a vocation have been able to vie for recognition in the American literary mainstream. English speakers by virtue of their US upbringing, they would have their ears attuned to the rhythms of US literature writ large. Dominican American writers in the 21st century have shown their mettle, making themselves heard in the ethnically partitioned map of the country’s letters. As with other Caribbean-descended American writers, they typically inhabit their US citizenship with an awareness of the contested nature of their civic belonging. Family legacies, personal memories, and their own process of self-discovery keep them reminded of the effects of US foreign policy on the land of their forbears. As a result, their texts tend to reflect not only an ethnic American voice, but also a diasporic perspective.

Network Connections and the Emergence of the Hub-and-Spokes Alliance System in East Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-50
Author(s):  
Yasuhiro Izumikawa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Alliance Politics ◽  
Japanese Imperialism ◽  
Alliance System

Why did the so-called hub-and-spokes alliance system emerge in East Asia after World War II instead of a multilateral alliance? Realists and constructivists offer various explanations, pointing to such factors as the United States' preference for bilateral alliances, the absence of a collective identity, and historical memories of Japanese imperialism. None of these explanations is satisfactory, however. Indeed, the historical record reveals that the United States sought a multilateral alliance in East Asia until the early 1960s. A theoretical model based on a social exchange network approach explains how a specific form of network can develop among potential allies. In East Asia, three U.S. allies—Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—contributed to the emergence and shape of the hub-and-spokes system, which came into being as an unintended consequence of their interactions. The preferences and behavior of these allies proved at least as consequential as those of the United States in shaping this system. The implications of this finding could be significant for alliance politics in contemporary East Asia.

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