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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"imagined community"”.
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Laowai: Contested Identity and Imagined Community among Shanghai's Expatriates
… ethnographic methods to examine identity and community within Shanghai's expatriate population. Using data from participant-observation, as well as text gleaned from interviews and personal narrative, I document the construction, by expatriates, of small, tightly bounded networks of support as …
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Spectacular Subjects: Embodiment, Abjection & Imagined Community in Contemporary South Asian Fiction
… of subaltern subject positions within the modern imagined community. The study is particularly interested in depictions of the distressed body, which emerges both as a sign violence committed and as the ground of an insurgent subjectivity that claims agency and refuses subordination within the …
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Imagining sittee : constructions of homelands and grandmother narratives in Arab American literature
… of grandmother figures in the construction of imagined communities in Arab American literature. Through the lens of diaspora studies, it argues that grandmother figures become integral in the creation of an Arab American imagined community based on two main tropes: a theoretical collapse …
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Communicating Community at Tesla Motors: Maintaining Corporate Values in Blogging Communities
… Master Plan through company blogs to create an imagined community. The theory of imagined communities provided the theoretical foundation. This research used a content analysis of words and phrases within Tesla's Master Plan and 2015 corporate blog. Although the blog provided some indication …
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Manufacturing the Mythology of "Be-Leaf": A Thematic Analysis of 2017 Playoff Coverage in the Toronto Star
… to every other viewer during the game in a dense imagined community. In the new media era, Canadians at home and abroad gather around computers and tablets to partake in the same rituals of an even greater imagined community. Spurred by globalization however, the game of hockey, a vastly important …
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Women's Work & Other Stories
… labor and explores the emotional landscape of an imagined community of women in rural Kentucky. The piece also features an original sound score composed and performed live by School of Music students.
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'I'd be unhealthy if nobody wanted me anymore': a sociological analysis of the relationship between ageing and health beliefs
… explanatory frameworks. The main finding is that imagined community (Anderson 1983) is the most common vocabulary of motive (Mills 1940) in the constitution of beliefs. Motivation, it is argued, is more a product of individuals drawing upon repertories of explanations in popular values and …
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The Serbian Paradox: The Cost of Integration into the European Union
… of historical memory and Benedict Anderson’s “imagined community” theory of nationalism, this paper discusses how Serbia has reached a critical moment in its history by pursuing European integration. This contradicts their historical pull towards their longtime ally Russia. What role does …
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Creation of fictional community
… essay explores how the creation of a fictional community is expressed through my body of work. These works do not reference an actual community as such, but are an "imagining"of a nonexisting one, so that they can be understood as a "fictional" or "imagined" community. The dynamic of this …
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"Encourager le commerce et répandre les Lumiʹere" : the press, the provinces and the origins of the Revolution in France: 1750-1789
… society. The papers created a space where a community of individuals could come together outside their corporate existence and participate as equals. In the pages of the local papers, absolutist distinctions based on corps, état, and ordre had no resonance. The second part of the dissertation …
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The Virus in the Garrison: Contagious Disease in Canadian Fiction
… in how national communities—particularly the imagined national communities present in literature—shape contagious diseases both physically and metaphorically. In a Canadian context, literary engagements with contagious disease are situated in a discursively unique environment informed by …
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Contested identities and the Muslim Qaum in northern India : c. 1860-1900
… centralising, entity, at times called the Muslim community, qaum, ummah or nation. Using a large number of second-tier publicists' writings in Urdu, the thesis argues that the self-perceptions and representations of many Muslims, were far more local, parochial, disparate, multiple, and highly …
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The effort to forget : collective memory and documentary film in Québec
… with respect to the role of forgetting in the imagined community of the nation, and suggestions are formulated with respect to the understanding of collective amnesia in further study on collective memory.
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Social Production of Hygiene: Domesticity, Gender, and Nationalism in Late Colonial Bengal and India
… nationalist imaginings of the domestic (family, community, and society at large). What is crucial to understand is not only how the emerging ideologies of a nation were intricately tied to health, well-being, or an imagined community, but also how this exercise laid bare the fragments and …
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Enacting Race and Class Online: Gatekeeping and Meaning Making on Reddit’s r/Brooklyn
… in the virtual sphere. The Internet as an “imagined community” upholds the historically embedded power structures that perpetuate deeply-rooted American hegemonic ideals as they relate to race and class.</p> <p>To demonstrate the conceptualization of power structures in virtual space an …
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Uniting States: Narration, Space, and Nation in Four Nineteenth-Century American Travel Novels
… diminished reputation in the nation's imagined community."
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The Contemporary Malaysian Fantastic Film: Imagining an Alternative Modernity
… they offer an alternative version of an imagined community and undermine the status quo. These films deploy elements of fantasy to negotiate the dominant notions of cultural and national identity in Malaysia. However, my study notes that the degree of resistance in such films is …
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‘What’s the news? Nothing but bonfires’: the Eleventh Night bonfire: tradition and change
… the socio-political identity of the Protestant ‘imagined community.’ It explores the historical and contemporary context of the event as it unfolds within Loyalist working-class estates. The thesis draws together concepts of ritual, symbol, invented tradition and explores how these concepts …
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Literary Dimensions of National Identity: The Historical Novel of the Late Soviet Period (1960s--1980s)
… Benedict Anderson's theory of the nation as an ""imagined community"", Clifford Geertz's concept of ""local knowledge"", and Rumina Sethi's postcolonial interpretation of the historical novel. This theoretical grounding allows conceptualizing the Soviet historical novel as an active element in a …
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