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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"National Identity Formation"”.
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National Identity Formation and Musical Modernism in Post-World War II Korea
… to circa 1980), the expression of a collective national identity was a primary concern in South Korea. The central question of my dissertation is how the awareness of a national identity, which preoccupied the public discourse in Korea during its post-WWII cultural rebuilding, was manifested in …
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The Entanglements of Canada's National Identity Building and Vietnamese Canadian Community Conflicts: Racial Capitalist Democracy and the Cold War Neoliberal Multicultural Subject
… Canadian subjectivity is related to Canadas national identity formation. Adopting a critical ethnography methodology and discourse analysis, this study asks: What are the conditions of community conflicts within the Vietnamese community and how are those conflicts related to the processes of …
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REBEL WITH A CAUSE: ISHIHARA SHINTARŌ, A CASE STUDY OF A JAPANESE NATIONALIST
This paper explores the formation of national identity through selected works of Ishihara Shintarō, a politician and writer. Ishihara's narrative of identity, as seen in his works, reflects the Japanese nation's quest for a clear and unbroken narrative of identity. As both a disseminator and …
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Bodies and Borders: Gendered Nationalism in Contemporary Poland
… around the country hosted exhibitions presenting national identity and narratives. In this thesis, I compare two such exhibitions in Warsaw, one hosted by the Warsaw National Museum and the other housed in the Warsaw Modern Art Museum. I argue that the employment of feminine figures as allegorical …
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Constructing Women and Nation: Feminized America in British and American Visual Culture 1760-1800
… embodiments of America are merely a product of national identity formation. The shift from an Indigenous woman to a Roman goddess can be charted parallel to the rise of Republican Motherhood ideology and anxieties about female autonomy. This thesis will also explore the complex powerful nature …
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Black Mosaic: The Assimilation and Marginalization of Afro -Peruvians in Post -Abolition Peru, 1854--1930
… were important actors in the nation and identity-building building projects of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Peru in spite of their subaltern status. Methodologically, it views Afro-Peruvian history from the perspective of elites and from groups within the Afro-Peruvian …
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Resurrecting the Past, Constructing the Future: A Historical Investigation on the Formation of a Greek National Identity in Schools, 1834-1913
… between 1834 and 1913 sought to shape a Greek national identity. The goal of this project is to present a historical analysis, that has thus far been absent from scholarship on the subject, and to convey how the adoption of a common national history in Greece, with roots to ancient Greece, …
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Education and Civil Conflict: The Negative Effects of Intolerant Curricula in Kosovo, Pakistan, and Sudan
<p>Education has long been used as a tool for national identity formation and social cohesion. However, in diverse communities across the globe, the question must be asked: are educational institutions creating citizens with a narrow view of “us vs. them” or an identity built on multiculturalism …
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Language, Land, and Law: Laurence Nowell's Anglo -Saxon Studies in Sixteenth-Century England
… and relates each of his projects to national identity formation in Tudor England. Nowell wrote thousands of Old English words, drawn mostly from the Grammar and Glossary of the Anglo-Saxon abbot AElfric, next to the Modern English-Latin entries of the printed dictionary. Nowell's …
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Neutrality in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1899-1914
… the realm of diplomatic history, to processes of nationalism and national identity formation. For Belgium and the Netherlands, neutrality was more than a security policy. Being neutral, vowing not to take part in conflict, also impacted heavily on how the Belgians and the Dutch perceived …
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The European Union, Immigration and Inequality: “Albanian” Labor in the Political Economy of Rural Greece
… as a significant arena for the production of identity and social regulation. From this perspective the persistence of nationalism and resurgence of neo-racism in Europe have often been seen as a futile rear-guard defense by downwardly mobile classes or class fractions. More recent studies have …
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Hellenikotita — Greekness: Constructing Greek Genre Painting, Visualizing National Identity, 1850–1900
… were seasoned with references to nationalism. The projects of Greek genre painters were varied, but the pictorial legibility of these works ensured that educated urbanites as well as the predominantly peasant population could read them and advance a sense of national consciousness. …
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Transethnic America: nineteenth-century narratives of self, other, and nation
… contemporaries at pivotal historical moments in national identity formation rather than primarily as participants in isolated ethnic traditions. This emphasis on dialogical reading brings the boundary-crossing gains of transnationalist studies to bear on comparative multiethnic literature, …
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Reading Nation in Translation: The Spectral Transnationality of the Malaysian Racial Imaginary
… a global turn, often understood as a move beyond national paradigms of analysis, which are deemed to be narrow and particularistic. Although wary of the tacit universalizing tendencies of global frames, scholars of race and postcoloniality have critically embraced the global by arguing for the …
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Essays on Institution and Innovation
… third essay explores how language policy affects national identity formation, analyzing Taiwan’s Chinese language unification campaign. Exploiting variation in individuals’ age-based ability to learn Mandarin and their linguistic distance from it, I implement a difference-in-differences design to …
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Stateless nation building: early Puerto Rican cinema and identity formation (1897-1940)
… centers on the processes of Puerto Rican national identity formation as seen through the historical development of cinema on the island between 1897 and 1940. Anchored in archival sources in film technology, economy, and education, I argue that Puerto Rico’s position as a stateless nation …
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La patria perdida o imaginada: translating teodoro torres in "el mexico de afuera"
… interesting work to explore the construction of national identity formation, as well as post-national and border theory within a critical framework, like that provided by Benedict Anderson in his work, Imagined Communities.</p>