Journal articles: 'Imperial discourse'

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Pease, Donald E. "Imperial Discourse." Diplomatic History 22, no. 4 (October 1998): 605–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0145-2096.00141.

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CHRISMAN, LAURA. "The imperial unconscious? Representations of imperial discourse." Critical Quarterly 32, no. 3 (September 1990): 38–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8705.1990.tb00605.x.

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Ryabchuk, Mykola. "The Ukrainian “Friday” and the Russian “Robinson”: The Uneasy Advent of Postcoloniality." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 44, no. 1-2 (2010): 7–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221023910x512778.

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AbstractThe paper addresses the problem of Russian-Ukrainian asymmetric relations as revealed in the struggle of two discourses—the discourse of imperial dominance and the discourse of national/nationalistic resistance and liberation. Critical discourse analysis is applied to deconstruct the imperial discourse as a major obstacle for the normalization of Russian-Ukrainian relations. Postcoloniality is suggested as a desirable condition for both Russian and Ukrainian cultures to achieve internal freedom and eliminate colonial stereotypes and anti-colonial mobilization, respectively.

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Jong, Janneke de. "More than words: imperial discourse in Greek papyri." Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz 25, no. 1 (2014): 243–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ccgg.2014.1827.

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This paper discusses how Roman imperial discourse is encountered in Greek papyri. The term “ discourse” covers several levels of meaning, ranging from a simple conversation to a set of programmatic or ideological statements. This latter sense is relevant for imperial selfpresentation : through images and words Roman emperors communicated their qualities, which served as an ideological basis for their power position, in order to be accepted as the right man for the job by different groups of subjects. How, then, are Roman emperors present in Greek papyri ? And how can Greek papyri be used for the study of imperial discourse ? In my paper, I will discuss how papyri reveal imperial power and its concomitant discourse in several ways. In certain types of documents, such as imperial letters, the emperor speaks directly. In others, the emperor is present merely as a point of reference, for instance in dating formulas. Nevertheless, even within these dating parts imperial ideology is reflected. All of these texts are instructive for the functioning of imperial discourse. On the one hand, these documents convey a concrete message, as they all were written for a practical reason. On the other hand, the use of certain elements or words could convey a deeper meaning to a text, by expressing concepts “ behind” the message itself. This paper aims to show how imperial discourse can be studied on several levels and how it can be studied for power relations within society and for legitimation of the imperial power position.

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Procida, Mary A. "Feeding the Imperial Appetite: Imperial Knowledge and Anglo-Indian Discourse." Journal of Women's History 15, no. 2 (2003): 123–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2003.0054.

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Kim, Claire Jean. "MULTICULTURALISM GOES IMPERIAL." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 4, no. 1 (2007): 233–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x07070129.

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AbstractAs Latino and Asian immigrant populations in the United States continue to grow, controversies are cropping up over immigrant animal practices such as horse tripping in Mexicancharreadas(rodeos) and the slaughter of animals in the live-animal markets of San Francisco's Chinatown. Immigrant advocates read these controversies through a multiculturalist interpretive framework that constructs animal advocates as agents of an ethnocentric and racist majority. In this article, I argue that this multiculturalist interpretation tends to “go imperial” by mischaracterizing the position(s) of animal advocates and invalidating and suppressing the other, potentially competitive, moral discourse at play: the discourse about cruelty toward animals. I explicate this suppressed discourse and then propose the development of a mutually challenging and potentially edifying moral dialogue in which majority and minority animal practices are simultaneously open to scrutiny and criticism. Clashes over customary practices can aggravate intergroup tensions, but they also have the potential to lead to meaningful moral dialogue between the majority and immigrant minorities.

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Alexander, Gronsky. "The Byelorussian Imperial Project in the Political Discourse of the Beginning of the 21 Century." Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” 2 (May 27, 2022): 335–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.24030/24092517-2022-0-2-335-342.

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The article explores the Byelorussian imperial discourse. It appeared in the early 90s of the twentieth century, but got no further development. In the 2010s, that discourse was revived, but also failed to gain a foothold in the minds of the intellectuals. The Byelorussian imperial project is not viable, because the country does not have the necessary resources. It is not advantageous for Russia to create a joint Russian-Byelorussian imperial project, since Moscow, not Minsk, will be spending the main resources. The Byelorussian imperial discourse was gradually replaced by the Eurasian one.

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D’arcens, Louise, and Chris Jones. "Excavating the Borders of Literary Anglo-Saxonism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Australia." Representations 121, no. 1 (2013): 85–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2013.121.1.85.

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Comparing nineteenth-century British and Australian Anglo-Saxonist literature enables a “decentered” exploration of Anglo-Saxonism’s intersections with national, imperial, and colonial discourses, challenging assumptions that this discourse was an uncritical vehicle of English nationalism and British manifest destiny. Far from reflecting a stable imperial center, evocations of “ancient Englishness” in British literature were polyvalent and self-contesting, while in Australian literature they offered a response to colonization and emerging knowledge about the vast age of Indigenous Australian cultures.

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Hanneken, Jaime. "InfiniteLatinité: French Imperial Discourse betweenL’Afrique LatineandAmerica Latina." Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 17, no. 2 (March 2013): 236–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2013.757502.

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TAYLOR, MICHAEL. "CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE PROBLEM OF COLONIAL SLAVERY, 1823–1833." Historical Journal 57, no. 4 (November 12, 2014): 973–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x14000089.

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ABSTRACTAnna Gambles's Protection and politics (1999) established the existence of a sophisticated and pervasive conservative economic discourse in Britain in the decades before Repeal. This article argues that the imperial aspect of that discourse – comprising ideals of imperial economic integration, imperial preference, and British navigational prowess – has been mistakenly understood as a response to ‘the imperialism of free trade'. In fact, these ideals were evolved primarily as the intellectual response of the West Indian lobby to the Anti-Slavery Society's campaign for the emancipation of British colonial slaves. Emancipation was regarded as a prospective economic disaster for the British plantation system and so the years after 1823 witnessed the vigorous and sophisticated defence of West Indian slavery by rhetorical and discursive means traditionally ascribed the label of ‘conservative economics'. This article argues that the imperial economic discourse hitherto considered ‘conservative’ should more properly be recognized as ‘pro-slavery’, something underscored by the pro-slavery sympathies of the writers credited with the articulation of this discourse, and by the almost exclusive relevance of its arguments to West Indian, as opposed to other colonial possessions.

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Aznabaev, Bulat. "Bashkirs in Imperial Discourse of Peter The First." ISTORIYA 10, no. 8 (82) (2019): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840005547-0.

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Hrynevych, Liudmyla, and Andrew Sorokowski (trans.). "Stalin’s Faminogenic Policies in Ukraine: The Imperial Discourse." East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 8, no. 1 (April 28, 2021): 99–143. http://dx.doi.org/10.21226/ewjus641.

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Because Stalin’s policy of famine creation in the early 1930s has been viewed through the prism of communist theory and practices, scholars have paid less attention to the imperial/colonial discourse of the period. This essay attempts to show the suitability of applying theoretical models of dependence and imperialism to analyze the dynamics and consequences of the collectivization of agriculture and the Holodomor (the mass deaths through starvation in Ukraine). The pressure applied to all regions of the USSR, resulting from the “communist experiment,” was in Soviet Ukraine supplemented and intensified, and, at some points, determined by a system of centre-periphery relations, characterized by political domination, control, the subordination of regional political elites to the centre, and the exploitation of economic resources. The appropriation of sovereignty over the Ukrainian republic by the central government in Moscow included establishing full control over Ukraine’s food resources, such as determining grain harvesting and distribution. The ongoing exploitation of Ukrainian economic resources and the anti-Ukrainian terror caused the Ukrainian famine of 1928-29. These also became significant factors in the onset of the 1932-33 Holodomor.

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Svetlana, Sankova, and Shevchenko Pyotr. "Imperial Discourse in the Works of M.O. Menshikov*." Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” 1 (February 1, 2022): 297–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.24030/24092517-2022-0-1-297-307.

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The concept of “empire” has a special place in the Russian scientific and philosophical discourse. Nevertheless, there is no unanimity in the interpretation and use of this multifaceted and important concept in the context of our country. We solidarize with Russian researchers who propose to analyze not only the phenomenon of “empire” in its historical development, but also its transformation in the public consciousness. The purpose of this work is to identify and analyze the imperial discourse in the works of M.O. Menshikov. His experience of understanding the socio-political space of the Russian Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century shows how dynamically the concept of empire and its practical implementation are changing. The article reveals the historical change in the concept of “empire”, clarifies the interpretation of M.O. Menshikov's views in the context of “imperial” issues. The authors describe the genesis and evolution of the concept of “empire” in the works of M.O. Menshikov as publicist, philosopher and citizen.

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Wittenberg, Hermann. "Imperial space and the discourse of the novel." Journal of Literary Studies 13, no. 1-2 (June 1997): 127–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564719708530165.

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Rowley, David G. "Imperial versus National Discourse: The Case of Russia." Nations and Nationalism 6, no. 1 (January 2000): 23–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1354-5078.2000.00023.x.

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Libaridian, Gerard J. "The History of Imperial Politics and the Politics of Imperial History." Journal of Political Science: Bulletin of Yerevan University 1, no. 3 (December 29, 2022): 10–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/jops/2022.1.3.010.

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This article constitutes a discourse of the essence of the empire, and on ensuing contradictions in what otherwise had been a commonly experienced history by Turks and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. This article is a moment of reflection on the author’s paradigm of empire, based on his academic research and diplomatic experience. The article addresses three questions: 1) What are empires and what are not, 2) Contradictions in the common history of Muslims/Turks and Armenians and possible explanations for these contradictions, 3) The fate of empires in international politics today. The author’s empire paradigm to these three questions is motivated by two main considerations: (1) How can we explain the fundamental differences between the opposing histories of empires and peoples subject to empires? (2) On an intellectual and scientific level, how can we contribute to efforts that can move us closer to a more thorough history from which we could draw some lessons? Historical discourse shows that differences will always remain, but even these differences should be aimed at enriching our knowledge and perspectives, and not at ignoring, obscuring or otherwise ignoring aspects of history itself. Contemporary interest in such comparative research goes beyond the methodologies that support the social sciences and the integrity of the profession of historian or other scholars of history.

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Chen, Hui, and Shilei Zhai. "The Politics of Translation in Intercultural Discourse Relationships: Translation of龍/lung and 夷/i into English as a Case in Point." Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures 6, no. 2 (December 28, 2022): 143–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202202013.

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The translation equivalence between龍/lung and dragon as well as夷/i and barbarian embodies the way of discourse power competition between China and the United Kingdom of Great Britain with different discourse pedigrees and discourse systems. The translation equivalence between龍/lung and dragon was constructed by means of mutation and discourse rewriting, and the political implication and cultural value of龍/lung in Chinese context were ablated. The equivalence between 夷/i and barbarian in the English context was established through the translation manipulation of the British, and the meaning of夷/i was separated from the Chinese historical context forcibly. The British operated discourse mutation on core Chinese political discourses via translation manipulation to weaken the subjectivity of China and bring China into the modern international discourse system dominated by the West, providing support for the expansion and colonization of British imperial discourse. This research provides reference for dealing with the cultural characteristics and universality, and the relationship between subject and object of discourse in the translation of contemporary Chinese discourse.

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Curanović, Alicja. "Skazana na imperium? Lęki i dyskurs imperialny w procesie samoidentyfikacji Rosji poradzieckiej." Rocznik Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej 19, no. 2 (December 2021): 43–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.36874/riesw.2021.2.3.

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The goal of the article is to indicate the reasons why formulating a new Russian non-imperial identity has failed. Applying the Ontological Security Theory shows the fall of the USSR as a critical situation that undermined the so-called fundamental questions of the Russian identity. The return of the imperial discourse was triggered by ontological anxiety connected to two fundamental questions: social relations with the significant Other and the finitude. The article discusses in detail the latter. Pending anxiety has activated imperial habitus, which is illustrated by the case of the Russian Geographical Association.

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Laš, Lukáš, and Vladimír Baar. "Japanese geopolitics of the Imperial Period." Geografie 119, no. 4 (2014): 364–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.37040/geografie2014119040364.

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This article analyses Japanese geopolitics of the imperial period by employing critical-geopolitical approaches to examine its formal and practical discursive levels. Its main objective is to explore classic Japanese geopolitical imagination juxtaposed to political (geo)propaganda, from the perspectives of space and their ideological origin. It starts by presenting selected autochthonous contexts and investigates how some Asian and non-Asian geopolitical ideas emerged in Japan. Afterwards, it turns to selected actors involved in the formal discourse, ranging from the academia to religious authorities, and confronts them with the practical discourse of political practice. A partial aim here is to localize some ideological elements supporting the classic geopolitical imagination and its role in legitimizing imperial ideologies. The analysis offers insights into the politization of spatial imagination in Japan of the imperial period. It is accompanied by a cartographic representation and an overview matrix of discursive actors.

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Ditmanson, Peter. "Moral authority and rulership in Ming literati thought." European Journal of Political Theory 16, no. 4 (May 1, 2017): 430–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474885117706181.

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This article explores the crises and debates surrounding the management of imperial family matters, especially succession, under the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) as an approach to understanding the limits of imperial power and the nature of literati discourse on the imperium. Ming officials and members of the literati community became passionately engaged in the debates on imperial family decisions, regarding the moral order of the imperial family as a key feature of their prerogatives over imperial power. This prerogative was based upon claims to Neo-Confucian moral authority. Over the course of the dynasty, these claims grew increasingly widespread and increasingly vociferous.

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Nikiforov, Ya A. "Imperial-liberal Contradictions of Political Discourse of N.G. Chernyshevsky." Izvestia of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Sociology. Politology 10, no. 2 (2010): 73–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1818-9601-2010-10-2-73-76.

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Klyukina, Lyudmila. "Discourse about United Russia in the Post-imperial Context." Historia provinciae – the journal of regional history 3, no. 3 (2019): 911–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.23859/2587-8344-2019-3-3-3.

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Gruffydd Jones, Branwen. "‘Good governance’ and ‘state failure’: genealogies of imperial discourse." Cambridge Review of International Affairs 26, no. 1 (March 2013): 49–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2012.734785.

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Kim, Seung-wook. "Discourse on Historical Territory and Imperial Tradition in China." Institute of History and Culture Hankuk University of Foreign Studies 63 (August 30, 2017): 105–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.18347/hufshis.2017.63.105.

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Greenfield, Gerald Michael. "The Great Drought and Elite Discourse in Imperial Brazil." Hispanic American Historical Review 72, no. 3 (August 1992): 375. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2515990.

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Greenfield, Gerald Michael. "The Great Drought and Elite Discourse in Imperial Brazil." Hispanic American Historical Review 72, no. 3 (August 1, 1992): 375–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-72.3.375.

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Bardhan, Soumia, and Daniel Cutter. "Recruiting Foreign Warriors: Moral and Temporal Tropes in the Islamic State’s Dabiq." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 24, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 483–520. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.24.3.0483.

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Abstract To commemorate its declaration of a global khilafah in 2014, the Islamic State (IS) began publishing an online magazine, Dabiq, which became one of its primary recruiting tools during its rise to infamy. By using rhetoric that recalls U.S. presidential war rhetoric, specifically, tropes of “justice” and “time,” the English-language version of Dabiq fulfilled both subversive and hegemonic functions. It disrupted the reductive discourse that equates Islamic terrorists only with barbaric aggression and rendered IS as a rational global actor. Through this subversive move, IS aligned its anti-imperial interests with potential recruits in English-speaking Western countries with similar proclivities. At the same time, through its use of dominant Western war tropes, IS made a hegemonic attempt to facilitate recruits’ cultural identification so they assume a congruence of interests with IS, leading to an alignment of motives. Dabiq thus fulfilled an imperial trajectory through (neo)imperial rhetorics of identification and control. IS’s strategic use of (neo)imperial tropes in English—language of the empire—in Dabiq hence complicates monolithic (and Oriental) perceptions of the relationship between empire, imperialism, and Islamic terrorism in contemporary global political discourse. In addition, the significance of (neo) imperial tropes expands the heuristic scope of the rhetoric of terrorism by highlighting the implications of imperial ambitions and use of (neo)imperial rhetoric for the rise of global Islamic terrorism.

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Osadolor, Osarhieme Benson, and Leo Enahoro Otoide. "The Benin Kingdom in British Imperial Historiography." History in Africa 35 (January 2008): 401–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hia.0.0014.

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The body of knowledge that constituted British imperial writing, and the expression that interacted with it were attempts to engage European readership on the imperial adventure in Africa in the age of the new imperialism. This study is an attempt to address the complex issues involved in the production of historical knowledge about precolonial Benin to justify British colonial rule. The argument advanced in this paper is that, since imperial discourse set out to deal with history in terms of civilization, British imperial writing was a struggle to articulate certain ideas about Benin into a position of dominance before the British public. As Mary Louise Pratt explains, “depicting the civilizing mission as an aesthetic project is a strategy the west has often used for defining others as available for and in need of its benign and beautifying intervention.” British imperial discourse will form the basis of the discussion in this paper.Imperial discourse and its subjectivity raises questions about issues of power and privilege of those writers who were determined to sustain their voices in the debate on European imperialism in Africa. Their approach to the constitution of knowledge about Benin was one of many ways that opened the frontiers of knowledge about African states and societies to redefine civilization, albeit for the purposes of understanding various meanings and implications in this intellectual assault. This provides a vital entry point for examining the European colonial approach to the construction of the image of Africa. The aim is to demonstrate how this process suggests a connection from imperial expansionism to forms of knowledge and expression that reaffirmed metropolitan authority in the context of colonial subjugation.

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Bei, Chengxi. "A Review of Classicism, the Imperial Civil Examination System, and Cultural History: Selected Works of Benjamin A. Elman." International Confucian Studies 1, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 162–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/icos-2022-2011.

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Abstract In his personal collection of writings titled Classicism, the Imperial Civil Examination System, and Cultural History: Selected Works of Benjamin A. Elman, Elman reveals the cultural-historical orientation of his research on classicism and imperial examinations. Through his own “contextualization” research, Elman re-examines the changing of the academic paradigmatic shift of Chinese classicism and the shift in the themes and content of the Imperial Civil Examination System. He discovers that the popularity of textology dispelled the ideology shaped by Neo Confucianism in the Song and Ming dynasties, which contributed to the ideological liberation and scientific consciousness of scholars in the Qing Dynasty. The Imperial Civil Examination System, as an institution that shaped the value identity of the cultural elite, also showed the gradual dismantling of the dominant discourse in the Qing Dynasty. The thematic changes also indicated the gradual deconstruction of the dominant discourse of the Qing, and the abolition of the Imperial Civil Examination System signified the collapse of imperial ideology. Ultimately, Elman reflects on the role of Confucianism, concluding that it was involved in the complex transformation of China from ancient times to the present, and that its own vicissitudes played a crucial role in the turn of China’s modernization.

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RASULOV, AKBAR. "Writing about Empire: Remarks on the Logic of a Discourse." Leiden Journal of International Law 23, no. 2 (April 27, 2010): 449–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0922156510000142.

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A new genre of scholarly writing has emerged in recent years in the field of what one can broadly call critical international theory. Its principal defining feature is an intense preoccupation with the phenomenon of the so-called ‘new world order’, which it tries to explain and describe through an analytical lens constructed primarily around two ideas: the idea of ‘empire’ and the idea of ‘imperial law’. In this article I attempt to provide a brief overview of this genre, which for the sake of simplicity I shall call henceforth the ‘new imperial law’ or NIL genre, and to reflect critically on its underlying ideological dynamics.

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Kostenko, Ganna. "IMPERIAL SRATEGIES AND DISCIURCES OF DOMINATION IN UKRAINIAN CULTURE." Almanac of Ukrainian Studies, no. 23 (2018): 129–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2520-2626/2018.23.21.

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The imperial strategies and discourses of domination in modern Ukrainian culture, their manifestations in the Ukrainian literature on the basis of post-colonial and cultural-anthropological methodologies are analyzed. Integration and consolidation of Ukrainian national culture is an important state-building and globalization process. The very state of postcoloniality of contemporary Ukrainian culture demands new integrated philosophical studies of Ukrainian studies, including the emancipatory, decolonial socio-therapeutic goal. The questions of imperial strategies of domination, postcolonial discourse and globalization were covered in his writings by G. Grabovich, T. Gundorov, N. Zborovsk, M. Pavlyshyn, O. Titar, E. Thomson, O. Yurchuk. It is argued that the proliferation of an anti-colonial narrative is a definite step in overcoming the colonial heritage, but much more effective in overcoming colonialism is through democratization and the simultaneous spread of different types of discourses - postcolonial, decolonial, postimperial, anti-colonial, multicultural. Modern Ukrainian culture demonstrates both anti-colonial and post-colonial discourses. Socio-political and socio-cultural events of the last time especially actualize anti-colonial discourses, which is due to awareness of Ukraine as a former colony. At the same time, post-colonial discourses also demonstrate not only global but also national Ukrainian specifics. We see that colonialism in Ukraine, and, accordingly, the imperial resentment of the former metropolis with respect to Ukrainian lands, is not only a historical phenomenon, but a condition that determines and generates new conflicts up to an armed confrontation. In general, the texts of Ukrainian contemporary literature in view of the state of postcolonialism are classified into two types: 1) the type that focuses on the deconstruction of the imperial (postmodern post-colonialism), 2) the type that restores the Ukrainian national mythology (nationally oriented post-colonialism). The traces of the imperial are analyzed in the useful sense of the national-centered construction, and in the negative, when under the postmodern mask the cultural field of the Empire-Colony relations is restored. It is concluded that national Ukrainian culture will develop effectively only if the main imperial strategies are deconstructed and the main imperial myths are debunked.

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Turóczy, Zsófia. "Hungarian Freemasons as “Builders of the Habsburg Empire” in Southeastern Europe." Hungarian Historical Review 11, no. 2 (2022): 329–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.38145/2022.2.329.

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In the 1890s, Hungarian Freemasonry began to expand its sphere of influence in southeastern Europe. The establishment of lodges in the southeastern border areas and even outside the Kingdom of Hungary exemplifies this expansion. When devising explanations for this policy, the Hungarian Freemasons made use of colonial and imperial discourses to justify expansion into the “Orient” with reference to the alleged civilizing role they attributed to Freemasonry. They divided the world into two parts from a cultural-civilizational point of view: one where Freemasonry was already established and flourishing and another where this form of community and social practice was not yet known or established. This discourse was entangled with political, economic, and academic practices that were prevalent among the Hungarian Freemasons. Masonic activities and discourses therefore merit consideration in the cultural and social context of their time and analysis from the perspective of new imperial histories, especially since the importance of the discourses and political symbolisms used in the expansion and maintenance of imperial structures has already been pointed out by many historians and scholars of cultural studies within the framework of New Imperial History and postcolonial studies With a view to the undertakings of Hungarian Freemasons in the Balkans, this paper asks whether Hungarian Freemasons can also be considered “Builders of the Habsburg Empire.” This question is particularly relevant given that Freemasonry was only permitted in the Hungarian half of the Dual Monarchy. Thus, Hungarian Freemasons acted as both national and imperial actors, and they did so independently of Vienna. As the framework for my discussion here, I focus in this article on the discourses and activities of the Symbolic Grand Lodge of Hungary and the contributions of the most relevant actors, such as the Turkologist Ignácz Kúnos and the journalist and deputy director of the Hungarian Museum of Commerce, Armin Sasváris.

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Yücesoy, Hayrettidn. "Language of Empire: Politics of Arabic and Persian in the Abbasid World." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 130, no. 2 (March 2015): 384–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2015.130.2.384.

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This essay aims to contribute to current studies of language and empire by considering arabic and persian in the ninth and tenth centuries. Following the lead of Edward Said on colonial empires and translation, I focus on the political aspects of language and translation in “premodern” trans-Asian societies, which have not received the nuanced attention they deserve. Accentuating the act of adopting and supporting a language as political, I argue that the wax and wane of imperial languages were predicated on two usually simultaneous dynamics: intra-imperial interests and, to use Laura Doyle's term, inter-imperial competition. Imperial patronage aimed, on the one hand, to consolidate power, exercise control, stabilize administration, and order lived reality for imperial subjects and, on the other hand, to create a discourse to fashion and project an image of rule capable of competing with rival claims in Afro-Eurasia. On both fronts, the promotion of one vernacular as “high language” entailed resisting another one in an already filled political, sociocultural, and linguistic space. The new language thus proceeded in an intrusive and even disruptive way since it involved a construction of new meanings to conform to alternative sociopolitical and cultural norms and priorities and to tame the multiplicity of language. Yet, such a political engagement or competition with existing language(s) and discourse(s) also led to new forms of hybridity of language and discourse, as was the case for Persian when the Samanids (819-999) adopted the script of the Arabic language and much of its vocabulary and idioms to express their thoughts.

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Zahra, Kanwal, and Ahmad Nadeem. "The Discursive Resistance to the British Imperialism: Writing Back the Colonial Discourse of Violence in Hyder's River of Fire." Global Social Sciences Review V, no. II (June 30, 2020): 598–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(v-ii).58.

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This paper analyses the discursive representation of the Indian natives' resistance to British imperialism in Hyder's River of Fire. The violent resistance to British Empire by Indian natives has been termed as 'mutiny' by imperial discourses whereas postcolonial discourses term it the heroic 'war of independence'. In the backdrop of postcolonial theory and the concept of counter discourse, the discursivere presentation of violent resistance to British Imperialism is highlighted. Hyder has portrayed the events of 1857as a heroic response of vibrant culture to the cunning rulers of the British Empire.

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Smirnova, Vera. "Territory, enclosure, and state territorial mode of production in the Russian imperial periphery." Geographica Helvetica 74, no. 1 (January 16, 2019): 13–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-13-2019.

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Abstract. After the imperial land consolidation acts of 1906, the Russian land commune became a center of territorial struggle where complex alliances of actors, strategies, and representations of territory enacted land enclosure beyond the exclusive control of the state. Using original documentation of Russian imperial land deals obtained in the federal and municipal archives, this study explores how the Russian imperial state and territories in the periphery were dialectically co-produced not only through institutional manipulations, educational programs, and resettlement plans but also through political and public discourses. This paper examines how coalitions of landed nobility and land surveyors, landless serfs, and peasant proprietors used enclosure as conduits for property violence, accumulation of capital, or, in contrast, as a means of territorial autonomy. Through this example, I bring a territorial dimension into Russian agrarian scholarship by positioning the rural politics of the late imperial period within the global context of capitalist land enclosure. At the same time, by focusing on the reading of territory from the Russian historical perspective, I introduce complexity into the modern territory discourse often found in Western political geographic interpretations.

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Francis, Sing-Chen Lydia. "BODY AND IDENTITY IN LIAOZHAI ZHIYI." NAN NÜ 4, no. 2 (2002): 207–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685260260460829.

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AbstractThis paper discusses how Pu Songling (1640-1715) constructs an alternative self-identity through his artistic representations of the body in Liaozhai zhiyi. Pu's fantastic discourse of the body subverts late imperial cultural and fictional discourses, in which the corporeal body becomes a material marker of essentialized cultural identity. In Liaozhai, the body is problematized as a signifier of selfhood. The figure of the phallus as a symbol of power is detached from the physical body and dissociated from conventional concepts of sex and gender. On the thematic level, the deconstructed bodies in Liaozhai may be read as embodiments of class and gender identities transformed through an alternative fictional discourse of self-expression.

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Neimneh, Shadi S. "Imperialism and Gender in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarian." Language Teaching 2, no. 2 (February 8, 2023): p1. http://dx.doi.org/10.30560/lt.v2n2p1.

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Considering how power relations govern the construction of race and gender, this article looks at the ambivalent relationship between the Magistrate and the "barbarian" girl in J. M. Coetzee's novel Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), exploring intersections between imperialism and gender and negotiating how issues of representation are implicated in questions of identity construction. It highlights how identities inflicted by gender are constructed in imperial discourse: first by the colonizer who speaks the language of power and inscribes on the colonized meanings serving imperialism; second by the humanist colonizer who fails to relate to the other on equal terms except for a position of "feminized" weakness; and third by the resistant colonial subject eluding imperial constructions yet still manipulated in language. Between the discourses of pain and humanism, the colonized body remains a malleable yet impenetrable object of colonial discourses. Coetzee subverts dominant gender boundaries, aligning oppressive patriarchal practices with imperialism while undermining hegemonic ideologies that construct gender through the figure of the enigmatic other.

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van den Heever, Gerhard. "Making Mysteries. From the Untergang der Mysterien to Imperial Mysteries – Social Discourse in Religion and the Study of Religion." Religion and Theology 12, no. 3-4 (2005): 262–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157430106776241150.

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AbstractThis article considers the ‘fate’ of Graeco-Roman mysteries in late Antiquity in the context of the gradual Christianising of the Roman Empire. It is argued that the mysteries of the imperial era were themselves contributing to and demonstrative of the social ideology underlying the making of the Roman Empire. The mysteries were embedded in the imperial performance of Saturnalian good times. In order to see this one should change the perspective to study them ﬁrst and foremost as imperial performances. Concomitantly, one should also study the constructions of mysteries in scholarship in order to understand the birth of our conventional understanding of the mysteries in the context of the social ideologies of the 19th century. In this way the Graeco-Roman mysteries serve as a useful case study of the constructedness of religion as social discourse as well as scholarship on religion as equally a social discourse.

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Guanyu, Qin, and Qiao Meng. "The Imperial Discourse and Roger’s Tragic Death in “Aloewood Incense: Second Burning”." Studies in English Language Teaching 4, no. 4 (November 14, 2016): 551. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/selt.v4n4p551.

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Some scholars hold that Roger’s death in “Aloewood Incense: Second Burning” (1943) was caused by the repulsion from his colleagues and students, this paper, however, maintains that the imperial discourse regarding sexuality and the grand design of colonialism deprived Roger of a sense of belonging in Hong Kong and marginalised him, leaving him with nothing but alienation within the diasporic community and no choice but death. Chang’s exposure of the devastating effect of imperial discourse on its expatriates denounced the superiority of the western culture, indicating her sharp vision as an intellectual.

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Frenkel, Luise Marion. "Peace and Harmony at Church Councils and in the Roman Empire under Theodosius II." Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 48, no. 1 (June 20, 2018): 70–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/25890433-04801005.

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In fifth-century synods and councils, peace as a value linked to harmony is mentioned mainly in texts linked to the communication between the imperial administration and the bishops. The connection of peace and harmony is not foreign to Christian discourse, insofar as these values are usually expressed in terms that have Scriptural and patristic background related to religious strife to addressees whose identity is prominently Christian. Concurrently, in written communication with imperial officers, the relevance of the issues for the Roman empire and how Roman legislation could be applied to them was at the forefront, and theological or ecclesiastic details were accessory to the argument. In the context of the oral and written discourses and the use of non-verbal communication strategies, the selective appropriation of the elocution proper to the networking with the imperial administration in the core conciliar documentation of minutes and reports contributed to the partiality and incompleteness of the information they convey. Contextualising their rhetoric of peace, shows the influence of the authorial voices in the construction of the narratives.

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Meyer, Christian. "The Emergence of “Religious Studies” (zongjiaoxue) in Late Imperial and Republican China, 1890–1949." Numen 62, no. 1 (December 12, 2015): 40–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341355.

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This article contextualizes the rise of “early religious studies in China” with its apex in the 1920s within the heated debates on the role of religion in a modern Chinese society. While the most recent development of religious studies (zongjiaoxue) in China (including Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) is well known, its early emergence in the late Qing and Republican periods (ca. 1890–1949) has been a neglected topic. The author demonstrates first how antagonistic anti-religious and affirmative positions, received from Western modernization discourse and informed by the contested character of the concept of religion itself, led to the emergence of this new discipline in Republican China as a product of broader discourses on modernization. Secondly, the article evaluates the limited institutionalization of religious studies as a distinct “full” discipline in relation to the broader interdisciplinary “field” of research and public debates on religion. While the interdisciplinary character is typical of the field in general (also in the West), the limited degree of “full disciplinarity” depended on specific, local discursive and political factors of its time. As “religion” appears as an important modern discourse in East Asia, the early emergence of religious studies in China thereby reflects social, political, and intellectual transitions from Imperial to Republican China, and offers a unique perspective on Asian discourses on religious and secular modernities.

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Loewenstein, David, and J. Martin Evans. "Milton's Imperial Epic: 'Paradise Lost' and the Discourse of Colonialism." Modern Language Review 94, no. 2 (April 1999): 496. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3737132.

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이병학. "Mythical Stories as Anti-Imperial Counter- Discourse and the Worship." THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT ll, no. 155 (December 2011): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.35858/sinhak.2011..155.003.

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김성환. "Imperial Discourse in Marlowe’s Edward II: Gender, Class, and Politics." Journal of Classic and English Renaissance Literature 20, no. 1 (June 2011): 121–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.17259/jcerl.2011.20.1.121.

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Boyer, Patricio. "Fantasy and Imperial Discourse in Herzog'sAguirre, the Wrath of God." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 20, no. 3 (September 2011): 261–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2011.617361.

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Codell, Julie F. "DECENTRING AND DOUBLING IMPERIAL COSMOPOLITAN DISCOURSE IN THE BRITISH PRESS." Media History 15, no. 4 (October 6, 2009): 371–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688800903210883.

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Messner, Angelika. "EMOTIONS IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINESE MEDICAL DISCOURSE: A PRELIMINARY REPORT." MING QING YANJIU 9, no. 1 (February 6, 2000): 197–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24684791-90000395.

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Block, Kristen. "Slavery and inter-imperial leprosy discourse in the Atlantic World." Atlantic Studies 14, no. 2 (February 8, 2017): 243–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2017.1283474.

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van den Heever, Gerhard. "Introduction: Paul, Founder of Churches. Cult Foundations and the Comparative Study of Cult Origins." Religion & Theology 20, no. 3-4 (April 2, 2014): 259–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15743012-12341262.

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AbstractIn this introduction to the discussion on James C. Hanges,Paul, Founder of Churches, the significance of the comparative work on the cult founder-figure and typology of cult foundations is discussed. The essay argues that this serves to ground any interpretation of the cult founding work of the apostle Paul in an understanding of the materiality of religion. This gives impetus to a more concrete conceptualisation of Christian origins. Further reflection on this comparative enterprise is offered by means of three discussion foci, namely Discourse, imperial context, spatiality; Diaspora religion; and New Religious Movements. It is argued that the pervasiveness of imperial discourse and its spatial encoding allows us to see Paul’s cult foundations as sites of imperial resistance. Diasporas and diasporic religions provide key illuminations for understanding the broader context of the foundations of cult groups by Paul. Study of new religious movements will also aid in concrete descriptions and analysis of the making of early Christian groups and their organisation.

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Corona Encinas, Álex. "«Ipse Perspicis Scilicet»: The Relation between Army and Religion in Constantinian Propaganda." Religions 14, no. 4 (April 2, 2023): 472. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel14040472.

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This study aims to explore the connection between religious and military spheres in Constantinian propaganda. The extensive use of propaganda and the notorious public discourse which involves the dynamics of power during Late Antiquity show how religion and the military played a key role. This principle reaches a singular meaning in the case of emperor Constantine I. To this extent, this paper considers several kinds of sources, which include legal, literary, and numismatic, among others. An analysis of the political uses of imperial constitutions by the emperor (especially CTh 7.20.2) can be of particular interest in order to address the ideas of self-representation and the politics of legitimation. Ultimately, the paper highlights the importance of imperial propaganda in Later Roman society, as well as the transformations in Constantine’s public discourse, where the connection between army and religion shows an evolution from the previous ways of understanding imperial power and where the bond of the ruler with a supreme divinity is a central issue.

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