W(h)ither the Union? Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Twenty-first Century

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McCrone
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
First Century ◽  
Humpty Dumpty ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Different Parts

This chapter argues that Britain in 1900 was neither a state nor a nation. It also claims that ‘the scale of grievances in Scotland…is simply not sufficient’ to endanger the union and ‘if anything’ devolution has decreased them. The union may mean what one want it to mean, as Humpty Dumpty observed. The irony is that the imperial connection has in large part reinforced the contradictions of British national identity. The chapter then examines the issues of identity. It also highlights the need not to assume that issues of citizenship and nationality operate according to the same framework in different parts of the kingdom. There does not appear to be an antipathy to being British among people in Scotland, but it does not ring with pride either: hence, perhaps, the usefulness of the ‘withering away’ metaphor. In addition, there is nothing inevitable either about the survival of the union, nor about its demise.

Some Concluding Remarks

2019 ◽  
pp. 181-188
Author(s):  
Liz Harvey-Kattou
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
National Identities ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

The conclusion of the book revisits and answers the initial questions described in the introduction: who or what counts as tico? How have challenged to national identity been constructed in the country? It posits that the wave of nationalist rhetoric seen globally in this second decade of the twenty-first century stems from the same processes and beliefs that created the tico norm, thus creating fierce oppositions within nations between those wanting an end to exclusionary national identities and those who want to build up their borders even further.

scholarly journals LEBANON’S NATIONAL IDENTITY: WALKING BETWEEN RAINDROPS?

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Hannah Stewart
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
First Century ◽  
French Mandate ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century

As the Levant continues to roil in upheaval in this second decade of the twenty-first century, Lebanon, a state notorious for its history of communal dissensions, remains remarkably stable, advancing a splendid model--albeit an uneasy model--of inter-communal coexistence. Lebanon’s history as a refuge for persecuted minorities and an entrepôt of international trade, in some ways, fostered a unique culture of openness and tolerance making it an “oddity” in its neighbourhood, and contributing to the formation of what can be termed a “distinct Lebanese identity.” A glance at Lebanon’s languages, traditions, history, and culture of power-sharing, suggests that despite periods of violence, patterns of coexistence among Lebanon’s various groups have developed organically, and often logically, since the French Mandate period, and can perhaps offer a model for emulation in a Levant of fractious ethnic mosaics.

Non-religion and Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 550-567
Author(s):  
Josh Bullock ◽  
Stephen Bullivant
Keyword(s):  
European History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Different Parts

This chapter is concerned with the growing phenomenon of non-religion and its place in modern Europe. The secular is hardly a new idea in European history but its nature and forms evolve. The focus here is on the growing significance of non-religion in the twenty-first century, especially among younger people. This phenomenon is approached in different ways: conceptually, statistically, and ethnographically. The conceptual approach emphasizes the shift away from simply the absence of religion to the presence of a positively chosen alternative. The statistical section underlines the considerable variations in the presence of non-religion both within and across the different parts of Europe and the reasons for this. Finally, three ethnographic vignettes illustrate the diverse ways in which substantive and engaged expressions of non-religion ‘make sense’ within their particular socio-religious contexts.

The Scouring of Wellywood

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-361
Author(s):  
Ian Williams
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
First Century ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Industry Worker ◽  
Twenty First Century

Abstract This article uses the work of brand theorists and New Zealand–based cultural critics to examine the circumstances that created the “Hobbit Law,” a New Zealand law aimed at busting local film industry unions. Branding logics created a struggle for authenticity around the importance of Middle-earth to New Zealand's national identity in the twenty-first century. This hybrid identity was then articulated as something that stood against labor actions by film industry workers, culminating in citizen marches against local labor. It closes by exploring ways that the importance of the brand as sense-making tool under neoliberalism might be reconfigured as something that might bridge the gap between media consumer and creative industry worker.

scholarly journals The risk of losing national identity in the twenty-first century Romania, or national identity from adaptation to self-censorship

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-34
Author(s):  
Andreia-Irina Suciu ◽  
Mihaela Culea
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
First Century ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Historical Memories ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
General Aspects ◽  
Political Economic

In the contemporary world of extremely dynamic movements in the fields of territorial state reconfiguration, economic “colonization”, globalization, Europeanization, migration of population, borrowing of cultural values and intensified cultural exchange or transfer, defining national identity has become a process which registers numerous changes and encounters various challenges. The classical features that assisted this process of defining national identity in the past – a historic territory, common myths, historical memories and values, a common public culture, common legal rights and duties, a common economy with territorial mobility (A. D. Smith 1991: 14) – undergo significant transformations each decade and the definition of a nation’s identity calls for important reconsiderations. One aspect worth considering is that of losing or self-censoring one’s national identity due to a nation’s own intention or some external demands of adaptation to general aspects of political, economic, financial, social, or cultural nature. Our paper intends to explore some of the causes or factors that might lead to twenty-first century Romania’s weakening, degradation or loss of national identity and suggest some possible solutions against such a process.

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