scholarly journals "One Southeast Asia": Emerging iconographies in the making of a region

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (422/423) ◽  
pp. 352-357
Author(s):  
Elena Dell'Agnese
Keyword(s):  
Political Geography ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
The Political ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
The University

The author is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Milano-Bicocca, where she teaches Political Geography. She also teaches Geography for the Degree Course of Tourism Studies and the Local Community at the same University. She has been studying extensively the nation-building process in Indonesia and Timor, and also the complex relation between national identity and "tourism" in Indonesia (Bali, Sulawesi, Irian Jaya-Papua). She is the author of many papers on themes of the political geography of Indonesia, and the editor of the volume Geografia e geopolitica dell'estremo Oriente (UTET, 2000). Professor dell'Agnese is a member of Senas, the network of research centers on Asia from Southern Europe.

Youth and the State

1985 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID H. KAMENS
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Incorporation ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Building Process ◽  
The Status ◽  
Collective Goals ◽  
Do So

This article argues that the nation-building process in the post-World War II era often results in changes in the definitions of adolescence and in the status of youth. This happens because both nation building and economic development have become the responsibilities of modern states. Using the work of John Meyer and his students (1978, 1979), I argue that these state-sponsored activities are guided by institutional “recipes” for development that are embodied in world system ideology. A key component of this ideology is the idea that rational action results from the activities of appropriately socialized individuals. As a result, harnessing the motivation of individuals to collective goals becomes a central concern of modern states. Efforts to do so have produced a number of institutional forms that have diffused rapidly throughout the periphery, for example, educational expansion. The adoption of other institutional devices to link individuals to the state depends on the internal characteristics of national societies. We focus on one such process and develop an index to measure it: the political incorporation of youth in the state.

scholarly journals The long road to Megalopolis

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (418/419) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Luca Muscarà
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

The author is associate professor of geography at the Università degli Studi del Molise, Italy; and teaches at the GIS Masteřs Program of the Università di Roma La Sapienza. He holds a doctorate in political geography from the Università di Trieste (1998) and is dottore in lettere at the Università di Venezia (1985). He was a visiting professor at the University of California Los Angeles (2000, 2001) and is a member of the editorial board of Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography, based in Paris, and co-editor of Sistema Terra. He focused his research on the life and work of Jean Gottmann and is writing a book on the subject.

UNRWA and the Palestinian Nation-Building Process

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jalal al-Husseini
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
State Building ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Of Return ◽  
Building Process ◽  
New Development ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Palestinian National Movement ◽  
Two Bodies

This paper focuses on the political dimensions of UNRWA's mandate and activities through an analysis of its relations with the Palestinian national movement. The evolution of the UNRWA-PLO relationship, from uneasy coexistence to active partnership, parallels changes in each of the two bodies: UNRWA's movement toward greater politicization, and the PLO's gradual embrace of developmental goals associated with the state-building process. The article ends by touching on the problems inherent in the new development approach, particularly with reference to the refugees' right of return.

scholarly journals From megalopolis to global city-region? The political-geographical context of urban development

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (418/419) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
John Agnew
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Global City ◽  
The Political ◽  
City Region ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

The author is Professor of Geography at the University of California at Los Angeles. His main research and teaching interests are political geography and the urban geography of Europe. His recent books include: Rome (Wiley, 1995); Mastering Space (Routledge, 1995); Geopolitics (Routledge, 1998); Place and Politics in Modern Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2002); and Making Political Geography (OxfordUniversity Press, 2002). In 2000 he gave the Hettner Lectures at the University of Heidelberg on Reinventing Geopolitics: Geographies of Modern Statehood (Institute of geography, University of Heidelberg, 2001).

Displacing Political Islam in Indonesia

Itinerario ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Chiara Formichi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Building Process ◽  
The One

ABSTRACT This article investigates the narrative of Islamic nationalism in twentieth-century Indonesia, focussing on the experience of, and discourse surrounding, the self-identified Islamist Darul Islam movement and its leader, S. M. Kartosuwiryo (1905–1962). I offer a narrative of the independence struggle that counters the one advanced by Indonesia's Pancasila state, and allows us to capture subtleties that old discussions of separatism—with their assumption of fixed centres and peripheries—cannot illuminate. The article unfolds three historical threads connected to ideas of exile and displacement (physical and intellectual), and the reconstitution (successful or failed) that followed from those processes. Starting from the political circumstances under which Kartosuwiryo retreated to West Java after the Dutch reinvasion of 1947—in a form of physical exile and political displacement from the centre of politics to the periphery, from a position of political centrality to one of marginality and opposition—I then transition to an elaboration of Kartosuwiryo's ideology. His political strategy emerges as a form of voluntary intellectual displacement that bounced between local visions of authority, nationalist projects, and transregional imaginations in order to establish the political platform he envisioned for postcolonial Indonesia. Lastly, I argue that the elision of Islam from the reconstructed narrative of Kartosuwiryo's intentions, characterised as separatist and anti-nationalist, was a key aspect of Indonesia's nation-building process. It is my final contention that official Indonesian history's displacement of Kartosuwiryo's goals away from Islam and into the realm of separatism allowed for two reconstitutive processes, one pertaining to political Islam as a negative political force, and the other to Kartosuwiryo as a martyr for Islam.

scholarly journals The complete bibliography of Jean Gottmann

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (418/419) ◽  
pp. 111-119
Author(s):  
Luca Muscarà
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Complete Bibliography ◽  
The University

The author is associate professor of geography at the Università degli Studi del Molise, Italy, and teaches at the GIS Masters Program of the Università di Roma La Sapienza. He holds a doctorate in political geography from the Università di Trieste (1998) and is dottore in lettere at the Università di Venezia (1985). Visiting professor at the University of California Los Angeles (2000, 2001), he is co-editor of Sistema Terra and is a member of the editorial board of Cybergeo, European Journal of Geography in Paris. He has translated Gottmann into Italian and is writing a book on the subject.

The Company You Keep: Subversive Thoughts on the Impact of the Playwright and the Performer

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (44) ◽  
pp. 322-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Temple Hauptfleisch
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Vista University ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
History And Theory

This article explores the much-debated question of the political impact or potential of theatre from a new angle. Accepting frankly the limitations of a medium which seldom reaches more than four per cent of the population, Temple Hauptfleisch looks instead at the contingent ways in which influence works – creating ‘images’ of authors, performers, venues, companies, and even of specific occasions which work upon audiences and non-audiences alike. The ideas explored in this article were first proposed in a paper read at a colloquium on ‘The Semiotics of Political Transition’, held at the Port Elizabeth Campus of Vista University in August, 1992: although most of the author's examples are thus from the theatre world of South Africa, the major thrust of his argument holds equally well for any contemporary westernized, media-dominated society. Temple Hauptfleisch is Associate Professor of Drama and Head of Theatre Research at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is co-editor of the South African Theatre Journal and has published widely on the history and theory of South African theatre.

scholarly journals Varig, “a Real Brazilian Embassy Outside”: Anthropological reflections on aviation and national imaginaries

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Castellitti
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Flight Attendants ◽  
The Political ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Television Advertisements ◽  
Social Markers

This paper proposes some anthropological notes on aviation and national imaginaries, taking Varig, an important Brazilian airline with international projection and recognition, as a starting point. The analysis is based on an explorative perspective, which included fieldwork among Varig’s former employees, especially female flight attendants who joined the carrier in the 1970s and 1980s and remained until the closure of its activities. Alongside the testimonies of these employees, it analyses magazine and television advertisements from Varig and other Brazilian airlines, in order to throw some light on the pertinence of gender, class and race as social markers that structured the aviation field in the second half of the twentieth century. Through a critical perspective, this work launches heterodox interpretative challenges on the nation-building process, hoping thus to contribute to a better understanding of the political and ideological games that characterised the formation of the nation.

scholarly journals LEADERSHIP, GOVERNANCE AND NATION BUILDING IN NIGERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-19
Author(s):  
Folashade Elizabeth Daramola ◽  
Akaninyene Ufot Etuk
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Red Flag ◽  
Personal Sacrifice ◽  
Bad Leadership

Since independence, Nigeria has suffered many and different forms of bad leadership and governance. This invariably has had its toll on the nation building process of the country as bad leadership and governance are synonymous with low development and disunity, especially when considering the dissatisfaction that arises from the different quarters of the country shaking the country’s foundation and threatening the unity of the country and disrupting real development and progress in the body polity. There are extant scholarly works on leadership, governance and nation building in Nigeria. However, it appears that the existing works have not been able to raise a louder alarm and raise a red flag against the prevailing corrupt and bad status quo in the political arena of the country which has worked against the nation building effort of the country. This paper intends to raise such alarm while warning the political leaders against impending revolution by patiently giving an account of leadership in Nigeria and the flaws of the Nigerian political leaders as they have had implications on the nation building process of the country. The paper makes use of historical methodology by analyzing data and information derived majorly from secondary sources such as books, journal articles, chapters in books, internet sources, etc. The paper has found out that many factors are responsible for good or bad governance and leadership in Nigeria which in turn have implications on the nation building process of the country. In all the paper has revealed that for there to be good and true governance and leadership in Nigeria that would affect nation building process positively, true and purposeful leaders must emerge to replace the bad ones that have existed over the years, and selfless and personal sacrifice must replace selfishness and greed in the minds of Nigerian political leaders.

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