Thirty Years of Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet States
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DOI: 10.1017/nps.2021.94
Abstract: Abstract This introduction to the special issue looks back at 30 years of nation-building in the post-Soviet states. Initial hopes that national self-determination would reinforce democratization proved misplaced. While that synergy worked well in the… read more here.
Keywords: nation building; post soviet; years nation; nation ... See more keywords
Nation-building Behind the Dike: Dutch Nationalism and the Visual Culture of Hydraulic Engineering
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DOI: 10.1080/03096564.2017.1305236
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article charts a crucial chapter in the history of Dutch nationalism, i. e. the topic of ‘water management’, by delving into the debate on the construction of the Afsluitdijk. The closure of the… read more here.
Keywords: dutch; building behind; nation building; dutch nationalism ... See more keywords
Women in nation building: breaking down barriers, building bridges
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DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1774399
Abstract: abstract The role of women in the public sphere in Africa has for long been one of restriction by virtue of society’s interpretation of power along gender lines. For long, society viewed power, authority and… read more here.
Keywords: breaking barriers; nation; building breaking; barriers building ... See more keywords
Screening War in Contemporary China: The Case of The Assembly
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DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2018.1458064
Abstract: Abstract War has been a prominent theme in cultural productions of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Repeated representations by the socialist cinema and beyond have produced a revolutionary imagination of war that glorifies death… read more here.
Keywords: film; contemporary china; nation building; war ... See more keywords
Curating the Partition: dissonant heritage and Indian nation building
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DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2020.1781679
Abstract: ABSTRACT The article analyses recent public initiatives to memorialise the establishment of India and Pakistan as postcolonial states in terms of violent partitioning rather than as a successful act of independence from British imperialism. The… read more here.
Keywords: heritage; partition; partition museum; nation building ... See more keywords
Strategies of symbolic nation building in South Eastern Europe
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DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1382764
Abstract: Helms first briefly turns her lens to the significant, yet largely ignored, space of (the politicization of) masculinity in this context, and she then ventures into the arena of journalistic, artistic, and academic opposition to… read more here.
Keywords: strategies symbolic; building south; symbolic nation; south eastern ... See more keywords
Nation building across national borders: a Uyghur hero in three socialist states
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DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2020.1827946
Abstract: ABSTRACT The process of nation building often entails the articulation of communal heroes. This paper argues that the elevation of such heroes is particularly significant for minority nations divided between multiple states. The project of… read more here.
Keywords: socialist states; nation; hero; nation building ... See more keywords
Genocidal Violence, Nation-Building, and the Bloody Birth of Bangladesh
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DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2017.1335712
Abstract: ABSTRACT Why did the Pakistani military carry out genocidal violence against East Pakistani Hindus during the 1971 civil war when the Hindus did not constitute a security threat? This question carries not only theoretical but… read more here.
Keywords: violence; genocidal violence; violence nation; nation building ... See more keywords
Indigenous myths and nation building in Latin America
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DOI: 10.1111/nana.12387
Abstract: In Latin America, ethnicity is equated with indigenity. It is an objective of this article to review the legacy of Anthony Smith regarding the vitality of the ethnic past and the myth of origin, as… read more here.
Keywords: latin; latin america; indigenous myths; ethnic past ... See more keywords
Rethinking early Soviet nationality policies within the poststructuralist context: Marxist legacy, Soviet nation-building, and contingency
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DOI: 10.1177/05390184221112596
Abstract: Early Soviet nationality policies determined the framework of the ethnicity regime of the Soviet state and largely continued within the same context until the collapse of the Soviet state. While reevaluating early nationality policies, this… read more here.
Keywords: nation building; soviet nation; nationality; nationality policies ... See more keywords
Regime legitimation, not nation-building: Media commemoration of the 1917 revolutions in Russia’s neo-authoritarian state
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DOI: 10.1177/1367549419871346
Abstract: Scholars predicted that official Russian commemorations of the centenary of the 1917 revolutions would prioritise ‘reconciliation and accord’ between pro- and anti-communists. Such a frame might help construct a new post-Soviet Russian identity. Yet, in… read more here.
Keywords: state; neo authoritarian; regime legitimation; 1917 revolutions ... See more keywords