Living the past? Do historical legacies moderate the relationship between national chauvinism/cultural patriotism and xenophobic attitudes toward immigrants

This study seeks to understand how national chauvinism and cultural patriotism are related to xenophobic attitudes toward immigrants. It does this by examining the extent to which historical legacy, in terms of geopolitical threats and national identity, moderates this relationship. A multilevel analysis across 24 European countries combines measures of national chauvinism, cultural patriotism, and xenophobic attitudes at the individual level with historical data, the geopolitical threat scale, and the national identity longevity index at the country level. Findings demonstrate that, according to these measures, historical legacies of threats and conflicts do not have an interaction effect, but the longevity of national identity moderates the relationship between national chauvinism/cultural patriotism and xenophobic attitudes. That is, in countries with greater national identity longevity, the positive relations between national chauvinism and xenophobic attitudes are weaker, but the negative relations between cultural patriotism and xenophobic attitudes are stronger. These findings contribute to the understanding of national identity by suggesting how it is related to a nation’s historical legacy.

Banchoff, T. i Casanova, J. (red.). (2016), The Jesuits and glo‑ balization: historical legacies and contemporary challenges. Georgetown University Press (Washington, D.C., ss. 299)

Recenzowana książka to owoc rocznych badań grupy znakomitych uczonych, skupionych przez redaktorów Thomasa Banchoffa i José Casanovę. Projekt był realizowany przez Berkley Center of Religion, Peace and World Affairs na Georgetown University w Waszyngtonie. Główne pytania postawione przed zespołem brzmiały: co doświadczenie globalizacji mówi nam o Towarzystwie Jezusowym (jezuitach)? A co doświadczenie jezuitów mówi nam o globalizacji? Jak zapisano w tytule, tekst podzielony jest na dwie zasadnicze części: dziedzictwo historyczne i wyzwania współczesne. Kwestie te nadają treść ogólnemu schematowi pojęciowemu publikacji, historycznie podzielonego na trzy wielkie „fale globalizacji”.

Oil, Earth, Books, and Holy Spirit

Theological libraries like Bridwell continue to benefit from both natural resources and the environment, while needing to adapt to the harshness of what nature itself brings. A holistic vision, distilled in the particular climates, topographies, and physical geographies of Texas, for example, reflects both the concerns and hopes about the general stewardship and sustainability of natural resources in our work. Reflecting on historical legacies will benefit our attempts to envision a better future and healthier planet. In the last few years, the focus on environmental sustainability has grown along with more critical roles in renewable energy. As theological institutions, then, it will become more pressing to evaluate both questions about what our ties are to the past, and what visions there are for the future. This paper will examine the ambiguities of environmental legacies while discussing what roles theological schools and libraries have in strategizing for coming generations.

On the causes of electoral volatility in Asia since 1948

Electoral stability has been viewed as an essential condition for the healthy functioning of representative democracy. However, there is little agreement in the literature about what shapes the stability of the electorate in general nor much attention paid to that of the Asian electorates in particular. We propose historical legacies, uniquely testable in Asia, as central determinants, but also test for conventional factors examined in other regions. By analyzing more than 150 elections in 19 post-WWII Asian democracies, we find that certain types of authoritarian (military or personalist) and colonial (non-British) legacies have a detrimental impact on the stabilization of the electorate, while some of the findings from other regions apply also to Asia. Our additional finding that such effects of historical legacies, particularly authoritarian interludes, are attenuated and cease to be significant with sufficient maturation of democracy, has important implications for the way party systems develop and democracies consolidate.

Policy Legacies from Early Australian Telecommunications

The purpose of this article on the policy legacies from Australia’s early telecommunications history is not to present a counterfactual to Australia’s choice of public monopoly provision of early telecommunications services, but rather to indicate the extent that politics limited the private sector’s role in deploying early telegraph and telephone infrastructure in Australia. The article begins by outlining a theoretical framework for analysing government’s role in deploying new telecommunications technologies, before investigating some of the less familiar literature on the historical impact of government intervention on the private sector in the early Australian telegraph and telephone industries. It then discusses some of the political issues relating to the subsequent liberalisation of the telecommunications industry in Australia and concludes with a discussion of the historical legacies of government intervention on the private sector in the Australian telecommunications industry.

Examining the Links Between Heritage Use and Identity Building Through a Narrative Approach: A Case Study of Dadaocheng, Taipei City, in Taiwan

This article is intended to explore where narrative stands in the interconnection between heritage use and identity building. To achieve this goal, both heritage use and identity building are understood as the process of connection with a physical place for meaning-making of self-identification. This also means that while heritage use is related to discursive practices with historical legacies, narrative is the discursive structure for heritage users to receive its temporal meanings between time, person and place. Accordingly, with a case study of the historic district of Dadaocheng, Taipei City, in Taiwan, this article would like to suggest that heritage really benefits the shaping of our imagination with a physical place, particularly for building urban imaginaries and place uniqueness. Moreover, historical legacies and urban imaginaries are defined and chosen to strengthen the quality of a person, and then each narrated story of heritage use seems like an illustration of the strategic ways of living and/or working with historical legacies in a specific place. Consequently, the linkage between heritage and narrative here denotes an ongoing doing–saying–being approach to make time and place more humanized; meanwhile, ongoing storytelling is a possible way to reflect people’s perspectives and envision a sustainable historic environment.