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NOTES ON GENDER AND NATIONHOOD
- Sociology
- 2019
Introduction Two of the most influential texts about the rise of nationalism both present arguments about nationhood based on technological changes: To Benedict Anderson (1991), the main protagonist…
THE NATION: AN IMAGINED COMMUNITY?1
- History
- 2007
In revisiting the classics of social science, it is evident that even authors that acknowledge the division of societies into different classes, tend to treat societies as organic ‘totalities’,…
Anthropology, nationalism and 'the invention of tradition'
- Sociology
- 2000
Some time ago, a scholar posed the following question: ‘Is there a way to talk about making culture without making enemies?’ (Jackson 1989). It seems that the answer is no, inasmuch as culture and…
The Dynamics of Nation, State and People
- Sociology, Political Science
- 2016
Nationalism plays a critical role in creating and reformulating collective identity and membership in a political community, notably the nation-state. Yet precisely how it does so and with what…
Forum: Bildung and the State
- Sociology
- 2012
In the last few decades, the study of the relations between literary forms and political formations has figured prominently on research agendas in the humanities. These investigations focus almost…
Everyday nationhood
- Sociology
- 2008
Contrary to the predictions of some, neither the proliferation of supranational forms of governance, the ascendancy of free market principles of global capitalism, nor expanding flows of…
The Sexual Life of Nations. Notes on gender and nationhood
- Sociology
- 2002
influential texts about the rise of nationalism both present arguments about nationhood based on technological changes: To Benedict Anderson (1991), the main protagonist in the historical drama of…
We are one: The emergence and development of national consciousness in Tanzania
- Sociology
- 2015
This thesis examines the emergence and development of national consciousness and identity in the East African nation Tanzania. A work in the science of humanity, it connects traditional social…
Postmodern subjects and the nation: Contemporary Arab women writers' reconfigurations of home and belonging
- Art
- 2011
A lot has been said about the declining status of national paradigms. Most recently, the forces of change have been located in the transnational and global phenomenon. Contemporary Arabic literature,…
Nationalism and Colonialism: Oceans, Civilizations, Races
- Sociology
- 2020
The article is devoted to the analysis of the complex interrelations between the imaginaries of nation and colony, and, by the same token, between nationalism and colonialism. The author argues that…
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- 1973
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- HistoryComparative Studies in Society and History
- 1992
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- History
- 1979
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- 1955
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A pathfinder.
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The rover will act as a mini-field geologist by providing access to samples for chemical analyses and close-up images of the Martian surface, performing act ivc experiments to modify the the surface and study the results, and exploring the landing site area.