Tired of Being a Refugee
Title | Tired of Being a Refugee PDF eBook |
Author | Fiorella Larissa Erni |
Publisher | Graduate Institute Publications |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 2013-01-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 2940503141 |
After six decades of protracted refugeehood, patterns of social identification are changing among the young people of the fourth refugee generation in the Palestinian refugee camp Burj al-Shamali in Southern Lebanon. Though their identity as Palestinian refugees remains the same compared to older refugee generations, there is an important shift in the young refugees’ relationship towards the homeland, their status as refugees, Islam, the camp society, as well as in their relationship towards religious or ethnic “others” in and outside Lebanon. This ePaper examines how technology, globalisation and outside influences have impacted the young Palestinians’ interpretation of their identity and their understanding of Palestinianness. The author concludes with reflections on the young refugees’ attitudes towards their Palestinian identity in the diaspora, which, as she argues, can only survive when the young refugees see their identity as a virtue rather than as a hindrance.
Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia
Title | Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Mariya Y. Omelicheva |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2014-12-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0739181351 |
More than two decades after the break-up of the Soviet Union, Central Asian republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—continue to reexamine and debate whom and what they represent. Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia explores the complex and controversial process of identity formation in the region using a “3D” framework, which stands for “Dimensions”, “Dynamics,” and “Directions” of nation building. The first part of the framework—dimensions—underscores the new and complex ways in which nationalisms and identities manifest themselves in Central Asia. The second part—dynamics—is premised on the idea that nationalisms and identity construction in the Central Asian republics may indicate some continuities with the past, but are more concerned with legitimation of the present power politics in these states. It calls for the identification of the main actors, strategies, tactics, interests, and reactions to the processes of nationalism and identity construction. The third part of the framework—directions—addresses implications of nationalisms and identity construction in Central Asia for regional and international peace and cooperation. Jointly, the chapters of the volume address domestic and international-level dimensions, dynamics, and directions of identity formation in Central Asia. What unites these works is their shared modern and post-modern understanding of nations, nationalisms, and identities as discursive, strategic, and tactical formations. They are viewed as “constructed” and “imagined” and therefore continuously changing, but also fragmented and contested.
Nationalism and Political Identity
Title | Nationalism and Political Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Joireman |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780826465917 |
This is a lively and well-written textbook, which will prove a valuable addition to the IR textbook series - mainly because the ideas it covers have changed so fundamentally in the last ten years. Nationalism and ethnicity are uniquely considered within the context of both traditional IR theory and 'new' IR (ie Cold War perspectives). Joireman explains the conflict between primordialism (the view that ethnicity is inborn and ethnic division natural), instrumentalism (ethnicity is a tool to gain some larger, typically material end) and social constructivism (the emerging consensus that ethnicity is flexible and people can make choices about how they define themselves). Case studies are included on Quebec, Bosnia, Northern Ireland and Eritrea.
National Identity, Nationalism and Constitutional Change
Title | National Identity, Nationalism and Constitutional Change PDF eBook |
Author | F. Bechhofer |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2009-07-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230234143 |
What does it mean to say you're English, Scottish, British? Does it matter much to people? Has devolution and constitutional change made a difference to national identity? Does the future of the UK depend on whether or not people think they are British? Social and political scientists answer these questions vital to the future of the British state.
Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran
Title | Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran PDF eBook |
Author | David N. Yaghoubian |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2014-07-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0815652720 |
Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran investigates the ways in which Armenian minorities in Iran encountered Iranian nationalism and participated in its development over the course of the twentieth century. Based primarily on oral interviews, archival documents, memoirs, memorabilia, and photographs, the book examines the lives of a group of Armenian Iranians—a truck driver, an army officer, a parliamentary representative, a civil servant, and a scout leader—and explores the personal conflicts and paradoxes attendant upon their layered allegiances and compound identities. In documenting individual experiences in Iranian industry, military, government, education, and community organizations, the five social biographies detail the various roles of elites and nonelites in the development of Iranian nationalism and reveal the multiple forces that shape the processes of identity formation. Yaghoubian combines these portraits with a theoretical grounding to answer recurring pivotal questions about how nationalism evolves, why it is appealing, what broad forces and daily activities shape and sustain it, and the role of ethnicity in its development.
Food, National Identity and Nationalism
Title | Food, National Identity and Nationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Atsuko Ichijo |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2016-01-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 113748313X |
Exploring a much neglected area, the relationship between food and nationalism, this book examines a number of case studies at various levels of political analysis to show how useful the food and nationalism axis can be in the study of politics.
The American Nation, National Identity, Nationalism
Title | The American Nation, National Identity, Nationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Knud Krakau |
Publisher | Lit Verlag |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
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Ever since Crevecoeur formulated his famous question, Americans have asked themselves: "What, then, is the American, this new man?", and even more urgently so once it became predictable that the traditionally majoritarian position of Anglo-Americans will dissolve in a sea of multi-ethnicity. What constitutes an American nation and produces collective identity among an extremely heterogeneous population? This comparative issue is addressed by sociologist Liah Greenfeld in her introductory essay. Other essays contributed by historians and political scientists from the U.S., England, and Germany discuss historical developments and phenomena which have led to regional or group-specific identities which, in complex ways, contribute to, and interact with American national identity and nationalism.