“There’s a Crack in the Union Jack.” Questioning National Identity in the 1990s: The Britpop Counter-Narrative

UKRAINE: EARLY REBELLIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE KHMELNYTSKY & MAZEPA

Humanities Studies ◽

10.17721/2521-6805.2018/31-6/11 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

C. McGrath

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Hero's Journey ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Counter Narrative ◽

Counter Narratives ◽

Unique Approach

The purpose of the article is to highlight two pivotal events in Ukrainian history which contain archetypal figures for current Ukrainian national identity. The focus on telling the stories from the Ukrainian perspective and understanding the elements of the hero's journey within the stories, the archetypes at play, as well as the counter narrative adds a unique approach to understanding the complex history shaping Ukrainian identity and fueling the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and among the Ukrainian people. Understanding the main points of the stories from the Ukrainian perspective, and how they support Ukrainian national identity will help US policy makers in spotting and understanding the Russian counter narratives and how they are used to influence Russian, Ukrainian and western audiences.

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Whose Dharma Is It Anyway? Identity and Belonging in American Buddhist (Post)Modernities

Genealogy ◽

10.3390/genealogy4010004 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 4

Author(s):

Joyce Janca-Aji

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Religious Affiliation ◽

Political Order ◽

Religious Nationalism ◽

National Belonging ◽

Transnational Community ◽

Counter Narrative ◽

American Buddhism ◽

Implicit And Explicit ◽

The U.S

This study engages some aspects of the conversations, implicit and explicit, between American(ized) Buddhism in non-heritage/convert communities and religious nationalism in the U.S. Specifically, how does a Buddhist understanding of emptiness and interdependence call into question some of the fundamental assumptions behind conflations of divine and political order, as expressed through ideologies of “God and Country”, or ideas about American providence or exceptionalism? What does belonging to a nation or transnational community mean when all individual and collective formations of identity are understood to be nonessential, contingent and impermanent? Finally, how can some of the discourses within American Buddhism contribute to a more inclusive national identity and a reconfigured understanding of the intersection of spiritual and national belonging? The focus here will be on exploring how an understanding of identity and lineage in Buddhist contexts offers a counter-narrative to the way national and spiritual belonging is expressed through tribalist formations of family genealogy, nationalism and transnational religious affiliation in the dominant Judeo-Christian context, and how this understanding has been, and is being, expressed in non-heritage American(ized) Buddhist communities.

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Discrimination Narrative and Chinese Indonesians’ National Identity: Is There Any Correlation?

Proceedings Series on Social Sciences & Humanities ◽

10.30595/pssh.v2i.112 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 105-110

Author(s):

Ninawati Ninawati ◽

Kurnia Setiawan ◽

Meiske Yunithree Suparman

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

P Value ◽

Master Narrative ◽

Four Dimensions ◽

A Value ◽

Counter Narrative ◽

Long Time ◽

Correlational Method ◽

Selection Of

Chinese Indonesian have been often treated as an outsider within the Indonesian society. Such a situation had happened for a long time. The discriminative experience of Chinese Indonesian came in the form of racial stereotypes and prejudice. In this study, we analyze the correlation between the discrimination narrative and Chinese Indonesian’s national identity. We collected our data through a questionnaire and involved 126 students in Jakarta as our subjects. The questionnaire consists of a national identity variable composed of four dimensions, namely fundamental (6 items, reliability 0.675), instrumental (4 items, reliability 0.520), natural (4 things, reliability 0.798), actualization (4 items, reliability 0.639). Discrimination narrative variables consist of master narrative (10 items, reliability 0.832) and counter-narrative (8 items, reliability 0.781). The selection of those subjects was made using the convenience sampling technique. We employed the correlational method to analyze the data. Our analysis showed that master narrative was not correlated with National Identity with a p-value = 0.179 (> 0.05). Meanwhile, the narrative counter correlates with National Identity with a value of p = 0.008 (<0.05) and a correlation coefficient of 0.234. This means that if someone accepts a counter-narrative statement, it will add value to their National Identity.

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