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Showing 1 to 20 of 781 for “"National Identity"”.
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Performing National Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia
… been devoted to the development of an Indonesian identity that both differentiates the new nation from its colonizers and links people separated by geography, history, ethnicity, language and class. Such national self-imagining is commonly articulated spatially through state designed or designated …
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Heritage tourism and English national identity
… on the creation and maintenance of English national identity. How this industry utilises the material and symbolic resources of this nation's cultural heritage is thus a primary focus of this work. More specifically, it is concerned with examining the components of Englishness and the social …
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The music industry and Canadian national identity
The links between national identity and the music industry in Canada are too diverse to be understood with any simplistic model of the nation. In early twentieth century Italy Ahtonio Gramsci examined the consumption of serialized stories written by foreigners. He developed a view of popular …
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Socialization and national identity in East Asia
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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National identity in post-apartheid South Africa
This study investigates the changes in national identity in South Africa over time and examines conditions and perceptions that inform national identity. It has three areas of focus: examining the levels of national identity in South Africa in 2008, the most current year of survey data available; …
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National Identity in South African Children's Literature
National identity is an important characteristic of a country and helps to create a sense of national unity between its citizens. Identity is a learned concept that develops at a young age from children's surroundings and interactions. According to Martyn Barrett, this sense of National identity is …
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The Discursive Construction of Taiwanese National Identity
… on a social constructionist perspective to nationalism and Laclau and Mouffe's theory of discourse, this dissertation attempts to analyze the discursive mechanisms that have constructed this new collective imagination by many people in Taiwan that now regard themselves as members of an …
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Construction of national identity: British art 1930-1990
… cases claims are made that these, and other 'national' traits, are an embodiment of 'civilized values'. One of the objects of the present study will be to identify and examine some of these key characteristics. This will involve an enquiry into the relationship of art to other areas of social …
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Brazilian science fiction: the construction of national identity
… relationship between this genre and Brazilian national identity. During this study, I focus on the relationship of Brazilian science fiction to the Anglo-American tradition and explore their differences in terms of cultural and literary history. Thus, a comparative analysis is made in order to …
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Early conceptions of national identity: causes and consequences
National identity is a powerful category marker that has been found to influence people’s perceptions and judgments of social others. While one’s nationality is technically defined by circumstantial factors (e.g., birthplace, residence), as opposed to inherent or biological features, adults still …
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The Construction of National Identity in post-1918 Poland
… thesis analyses the construction of the modern national identity in Poland following the state’s creation in 1918. Its central aim is to argue that although much of Poland’s national identity was, in fact, the product of the revolutionary eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in the twentieth …
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Theorising Turkish Gothic : National Identity, Ideology and the Gothic
… understandings of the Gothic and Turkish national identity to theorise Turkish Gothic as a mode intimately linked to the ideological processes of Turkish identity construction. Central to this thesis is the understanding of Turkish national identity as a fragmented construct due to …
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Towards National Identity: Addiction, Subjectivity, and American Literary Culture
… signifies everyday life and normative American identity as much as it names the criminality, self-destruction, or disease associated with drug addicts and alcoholics. Historically speaking, literary and cultural representations of alcoholics and drug users from the nineteenth, twentieth, and …
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La Nuestra: Football and National Identity in Argentina 1913–1978
… that it became a key cultural signifier of national identity in the country. Acting as an agent for integration in a country transformed by massive European migration at the turn of the twentieth century, football became a mirror for economic, political and social developments in Argentina …
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Historical perceptions of Roman Catholicism and national identity, 1869-1919
… Catholicism, and in the construction of English national identity, in the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury. It argues that the excltisivist Protestant identity of the nation, which had hitherto been maintained by an anti-Catholic historical narrative, was challenged by the development …
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The 'Future Generation': National Identity among Young People in Wales
Sociological theorists conventionally see national identity as 'shaped' by large-scale social institutions that operate across a national territory. In this context national identity is a collective phenomenon produced by generic processes of cultural and political socialization. More recent …
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Reproducing ‘geopolitics’ – national identity representations of foreign affairs in Moldova
… this thesis analyses the means through which national identity discourses impact on Moldovan societal representation of foreign policy. It contends that national identity perpetuates a Cold War inspired view of foreign affairs. This construction is defined by two main elements, the …
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DIASPORA - HOMELAND RELATIONS AND THE QUESTION OF ARMENIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY
… study presents diasporans’ perception of national identity within the framework of diaspora-homeland relations, viewed through the prism of geographic concepts of space and place. Based on observations and in-depth interviews, the study focuses on a classical diaspora case – the Armenians, …
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