Dissertations / Theses: 'National-cultural identity'

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Deryhlazov, A. "NATIONAL IDENTITY UNDER CONDITIONS OF CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION." Thesis, Національний авіаційний університет, 2014. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/15062.

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Wismer, Lacey Elaine. "British American football : national identity, cultural specificity and globalization." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6026.

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This thesis explores the hybridity and distinctiveness of British American football. Sports have socio-historical links to specific nation-states, thus encoding them with culturally specific values. Despite a movement towards cultural convergence, especially of popular culture, aspects of sport have remained resistant to dominant globalization trends. My thesis reveals that the globalization of American football to Britain has been a process which makes concessions to the local, while still retaining many of its global characteristics. Through an ethnographic study of one team, I spent an entire season becoming an „insider‟ and understanding the British American football culture from the perspective of the participants themselves. Analysis of data collected through participant observation and interviews revealed a number of themes which defined British American football as a hybrid and distinctive sport. First, that British American football was distinctive within the domestic British sports space because of its unique combination of American characteristics. Second, that „glocalization‟ influences the structuring of British American football under the amateur code, in order for the sport to better fit within the British sporting habitus. Finally, that the two branches of American football in Britain, the NFL and the British grassroots, were found to be involved in a disparate relationship which involved each branch concentrating on their own separate agendas for the sport. In conclusion, the American football played in Britain is British American football and this study importantly demonstrates that while a sport can retain its roots in terms of its physical appearance and playing structure, in order for it to infiltrate a foreign sports space, concessions must be made to the local sporting culture. The single most important thread that ran throughout this thesis was that American football could, and has, taken on multiple meanings, which were dependent upon the national context in which it was being played. It emphasizes the idea of globalization as glocalization; that the local is important in the global aspirations of the sport of American football. British American football has placed a uniquely British stamp on an otherwise purely American pastime.

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Candy, J. E. "The development of national identity : a socio-cultural approach." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.479255.

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Mpondi, Douglas. "Educational change and cultural politics national identity-formation in Zimbabwe /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2004. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1088187882.

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Strode, Louise. "Language, cultural policy and national identity in France, 1989-97." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1999. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7187.

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The French State, and political elites operating within it, have a long tradition of involvement in the production, management and even the control of language and culture. This has been - and remains - important in terms of the construction and definition of a State-led model of French identity. Against this background, the present thesis examines conceptions of French identity held by political elites, the agents of the State, in relation to language and cultural issues prominent on the policy-making agenda in the 1990s. The thesis specifically considers the possibility that elite visions of identity may be changing under the influence both of new approaches to French cultural policy-making introduced from the 1980s by the Socialists, and specifically the Ministry of Culture led by Jack Lang, and of a series of potentially destabilising challenges to French models of cultural policy and identity which have been debated in the 1990s. In order to examine these issues, the thesis takes three case studies, focusing on political debates in the public arena surrounding a number of language and cultural policy issues which have been perceived as symbols of French identity. The regulation and promotion of the French language, audiovisual broadcasting policy and the Internet are selected as case study areas, which reveal these perceptions, and point to anxieties about identity in the debates which surround them. Thus these debates are used as a means of reexamining contemporary elite perceptions of French identity. This examination is carried out through the close reading of contributions to the debates, made by political figures of significance in each case study area. The term 'political elites' is used in the sense of Pareto's definition (1935, in Parry, 1969, pp. 34,46) of the elite as a 'governing elite', composed of all political 'influentials', whether or not they act for the State, as part of a government, or indirectly as part of the wider polity, in opposition. The cases tudiesd emonstrateth at elite conceptions of identity in France of the 1990s, whilst disturbed by contemporary challenges to French cultural policy-making, did not change in any fundamental way. Instead, they illustrated a reversion to traditional, rigid conceptions of identity, rather than the welcoming of more dynamic and hybrid ones.

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Briones, Ervin. "Social and cultural influences in the formation of identity: a cross-national/cultural study." FIU Digital Commons, 1997. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1886.

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This multi-site, multi-ethnic/cultural study examined the effects of variation between ethnic/cultural groups and the effects of institutional variation within ethnic/cultural groups on identity formation. The participants were 892 late adolescent college students from six sites in 5 countries (Brazil, China, Costa Rica, US, and Sweden) representing different linguistic and ethnic/cultural traditions living in the context of varied social conditions. As hypothesized, there were significant differences in the proportion of identity statuses between sites in the Personal domain, X2(20, N=858)= 164.78, p2(20, N=858)= 145.69, p2(20, N=858)= 120.89, p

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Sorel, Theresa. "Scottish cultural nationalism, 1760-1832, the highlandization of Scottish national identity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq24507.pdf.

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Tindall, Alexis. "Creating Australia : cultural representations and national identity in contemporary Australian literature /." Title page, contents and conclusion only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09art588.pdf.

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Beauregard, Devin. "The Cultural Conceits of Subnational Governments of National Minorities: A Comparative Analysis of the Cultural Policies of Québec, Scotland, & Catalonia." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35634.

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Cultural policy research typically emphasises national and local policies in its studies, while studies of subnational and regional policies tend to be less common. Between the levels of country and city, however, there is a vast array of cultural policy-types that is often cast aside or underrepresented in the literature – this, despite the fact that a number of prominent subnational governments of national minorities have been extremely active in developing their own cultural policies and institutions. Unlike their national or local counterparts, however, these subnational governments often contend with an additional layer of complexity when developing cultural policies, as their history and their population differ from that of their country’s cultural majority – which often leads to a different understanding and appreciation of their cultural identity and sense of nationalism. It is with this complexity and difference in mind that this thesis examines the cultural policies developed and implemented by subnational governments expressing a different national identity from that of their country – in particular, the Canadian province of Québec, the United Kingdom nation of Scotland, and the Spanish region of Catalonia – with the purpose of exploring the ways in which cultural policies are used to shape and influence a sense of cultural identity. Drawing on the economies of worth framework elaborated by Boltanski and Thévenot and the theory of governmentality developed by Foucault, this thesis developed a type analysis of cultural policy for national minorities as a means of exploring not only the ways in which their policies differ from that of their majority counterparts, but to offer a unique understanding of their culture and cultural/social predicament. Through its type analysis, this thesis found that the cultural policies of national minorities exhibited a unique trend in terms of: their application of the cultural industries as vehicles for the development and growth of their cultural/national identities; their support of culture and art as drivers of economic development and social cohesion; and their appraisal of artists and cultural producers as symbolic and literal ambassadors of cultural identity both nationally and internationally. More specifically, far from simply introducing policies that endeavour to preserve and protect cultural traditions and heritages as it has long been suspected, national minorities are developing policies that emphasise the creative aspects of culture and seek to grow their cultures identities through the production and dissemination of new works or forms of culture and art. In other words, the cultural policies of national minorities exhibit a discursive temporality: there is an acute awareness and appreciations of the culture of the past, juxtaposed by approaches to culture that seek to ensure the culture continues (and evolves) beyond the present.

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Disele, Potlako Lilian Peoesele. "A social and cultural study of traditional dress in contemporary Botswana." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.593888.

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Kelly, James. "Questioning agency : Charles Maturin, the national tale, and the cultural production of identity." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29190.

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In my thesis I look at the works of Charles Maturin, focusing particularly on four novels (The Wild Irish Boy, The Milesian Chief, Women, Melmoth the Wanderer). I argue that in these works we can see Maturin in effect offering a materialist critique of an emerging discourse of Irish Romantic nationalism. Maturin was concerned with how constructions of national identity and their expression in literature were intimately bound up with questions as to the role of culture, and the level of agency, it has within the public life of the modern nation/state. In his fiction we can see a conflict between a residual aristocratic ‘high’ culture and an emerging mass culture. The role of the novelist comes under scrutiny, as maturing points out the complicity between the ‘National Tale’ and the mass-market novel, a form of cultural production which was critically suspect by his fellow Romantics. For Maturin the central irony of the national tale is that its culturally determined notion of nationality is presented within the most commercial and, for him, materially determined form of literary production. Maturin in these novels engages with not only Owenson’s fiction but also with Madame De Staël’s important novel Corinne, or Italy as a foundational text in the Romantic construction of national identity. Women in particular questions whether female cultural agency is transferable to other ‘fields’ (to take a term from Bourdieu). The process by which the woman of genius helps to create a national sphere which then proceeds to marginalise her, reducing women to the status of purely aesthetic objects without political agency, is commented on in both the Milesian chief and, especially so, Women. In Melmoth the Wanderer, the focus changes to the role that folklore and ‘traditional history’ (a term from the novel) have in the national imagination. Melmoth engages with different forms of historical narration and memory, ultimately finding no one way of transmission – rather than appropriating folk culture in an auto-exoticist mode as other novelists of the time did, Maturin comments on the actual process of appropriation. The distinction between an aristocratic culture and a popular culture continues, as the appropriation of folk culture is linked with the selective appropriation of folk culture for a polite audience. The dialectic between oral and textual authority is developed and shown to be a false opposition, both forms of narration ultimately drawing on the other for legitimacy.

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Almarhabi, Maeed. "CULTURAL TRAUMA AND THE FORMATION OF PALESTINIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY IN PALESTINIAN-AMERICAN WRITING." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1605614421967042.

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Jubran, Carl. "Spanish internal-orientalism, cultural hybridity and the production of national identity : 1887-1940 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3071037.

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Roussou, Nayia. "Television and the cultural identity of Cyprus youth." Thesis, Coventry University, 2001. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/2be4ef68-0b65-78c1-9fe8-3e42e4285e06/1.

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The present thesis was begun in October 1996, with the aim of exploring the relationship between Cyprus television and aspects of the national and cultural identity of Cyprus youth. The thesis consists of seven chapters in all, which can be summarized as follows: In the first chapter, a survey of the historical, political and media realities in Cyprus establishes the ground for the present study, while in the second chapter, a literature review presents the writings on culture and identity, media theories and their development, with a discussion of important theoretical concepts and perspectives, like Cultural Studies, identity theory, globalisation versus localisation, postmodernism with its fragmentation and concepts of "otherness," as well as the relationship of all these concepts to Cyprus realities. A review of the relationship between television and media research to young audiences — internationally and locally - and a final discussion of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, ends Chapter two, foregrounding, at the same time, the third chapter on Methodology. The choice of the mixed paradigm — quantitative (statistical) and qualitative (Text and Discourse analysis of television programmes, and interviews and group discussions with the sample) is discussed, explained and documented in the third chapter. The fourth chapter consists of the presentation, statistical correlation and discussion of the results from the Statistical Field Survey, which rendered insights into the sample's attitudes and mapped the ground for the next two stages — the Programme analysis and the Interviews, by offering cues and clues for these stages. The fifth chapter presents a textual and discourse analysis of the first five programmes leading the sample's preference list in the Field Survey, while chapter six discusses the interviews and group discussions which were both cross-fertilized by the results of the Statistical Survey and the Programme Analysis. Finally, in the seventh chapter the conclusions from the Research are discussed in the light of the initial aims and goals of the study and suggestions are made for future research which can both derive from, and continue to add to the issues which have been investigated in the present project. The present Research Study did not aim at validating or corroborating one or more hypotheses, as it used a mixed paradigm with different methodological approaches, which could not, as a result render thoroughly congruent or consistent results. It did seek, however, through the use of its progressive, longitudinal research model conducted at different time periods, to empirically draw to the surface, as consistently and extensively as possible, answers to the goals and aims established initially in the thesis, which answers have rendered complementary conclusions throughout the stages of the cross-paradigm used.

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Peterson, Rachel. "Why Swaziland? how colonial history, nationalism, and cultural identity contribute to a national epidemic /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1991050401&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Zell, David. "Major cultural commemorations and the construction of national identity in the GDR, 1959-1983." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8118/.

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My thesis asks whether cultural commemorations helped the GDR to build a distinct national identity, and examines the role of political and cultural actors involved in them. Covering different strands of German cultural heritage, the aims, implementations and outcomes of anniversary commemorations are investigated as a longitudinal series of case-studies: Schiller (1959); Kollwitz (1967); Beethoven (1970); and Luther (1983). Substantial evidence from largely unpublished sources exposes recurring gaps between the theory and practice of these commemorations, essentially attributable to manifest examples of agency by commemoration stakeholders. Each commemoration produced some positive legacies. But driven mainly by demarcation motives versus West Germany, the appropriation of these German cultural icons as socialist role-models to promote national identity was mostly unsuccessful in three commemorations. Kollwitz was the exception as the GDRˈs claimed linkage to her political life was already undisputed in both German states. These research results are both new and important. They address a gap in both memory studies and GDR history scholarship regarding the relationship between commemorations and national identity. Furthermore, the findings of agency offer an original contribution to historiographical debates, by enhancing a ˈconsensusˈ- /ˈparticipatoryˈ dictatorship model of the GDR in preference to a top-down totalitarian system.

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Barnard, Louis H. "The illustrated children's Bible as cultural text in the construction of Afrikaner national identity." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/965.

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Rigby, Ursula. "Transforming space and significance - a study of the constitutional court of South Africa." Master's thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32304.

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This study examines the process of establishing and building the new South African Constitutional Court as the first intervention in the development of the Constitutional Hill precinct and as part of an endeavour aimed at creating a new national identity. The argument is reliant on the premise that an agency, in this case the judges of the constitutional court, actively seeking out means of transforming space and place and transferring significances in heritage resources, has contributed self-consciously in the process of social transformation. The study is intended to be descriptive of a social reality and explanatory of a special atypical case. Pierre Nora's seminal concept involving lieux de mémoire, their spatial and material potential, and the means by which lieux are formed and retained as lieux (memory objects/vessels/vestiges of heritage) has framed this study. The premise that space and place embodies and transmits concepts of cultural heritage has inspired ongoing and complimentary theories of the ways in which the built environment manifests narratives of power and the role of place in memory. Nora's lieux are social creations often involving built form and it is clear that historically significant built form can be used in social endeavors which contribute to the creation of a society's identity. Research and analysis of the Constitutional Court archive, selected published critique, examination of the artefact itself and by means of interviews with key professional individuals who participated in the programme of the building of the new Constitutional Court, all contribute to an exposure of the process of the endeavour of the judges of the Constitutional Court to establish a “lieux of cultural identity”.

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Bailey, Arthur Allan. "Misunderstanding Japan : language, education, and cultural identity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0017/NQ46313.pdf.

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Ewen, Neil David. "The Cultural Psychology of Football in England and Scotland : History, Economics, National Identity and Nostalgia." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514258.

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Trodd, Colin. "Formations of cultural identity : art criticism, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy, 1820-1863." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358796.

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Wang, Yue. "Cultural nation versus political state : media construction of national identity : the case of China Daily." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2006. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/785.

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Young, Michael A. "Cultural performances of German national identity| Popular music, body culture, and the 2006 FIFA World Cup." Thesis, Indiana University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1535413.

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This thesis explores the intersection of nationalism, popular music, and sport as they collided with German identity politics and discourses of twentieth-century history. I contextualize public performances of German national identity during the 2006 World Cup within the broader historical context of national identity construction through music and sport in the last two hundred. I contextualize Germans' public performance of national pride and hospitality during the World Cup as the latest in a long line of cultural performances of German identity that have shaped and been shaped by historical circumstances and socially conditioned discourses of national identity. Taking a broad historical and conceptual perspective on cultural performance, I argue that cultural performances of German national identity—communicated in music, sport, and visual symbolism in the public landscape (i.e., through the use of posters, ads, popular press, etc)—have been tailored to and contingent on the social and discursive exigencies of particular historical and political junctures of the past two hundred years. Likewise, cultural performances during the 2006 World Cup must be seen as particular to twenty-first-century German society. Analyzing the Germans' public performance of national identity as well as popular songs and their audio-visual texts (i.e., music videos), I argue that some supposedly nationalist performances of German identity gained traction and popular support during the World Cup because of the strong role played by popular music and sport in framing the terms of their performance and interpretation.

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Iqbal, Sahira. "Cultural identities of people of "mixed" backgrounds : racial, ethnic and national meanings in negotiation." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98937.

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This qualitative study aims to describe and understand the cultural identities of people of "mixed" backgrounds whose mother comes from one racial, ethnic or national background and whose father comes from another background. In-depth, individual interviews were conducted with nine people of "mixed" backgrounds in order to understand the meanings that particular racial, ethnic or national labels have for them and how those meanings are constructed. My analysis is shaped by the works of Hall (1996, 2003), Taylor (1989, 1992) and Bourdieu (1986, 1990) among others. The participants claimed multiple labels in ambivalent ways. They spoke about what they know or do not know about the culture, connections to people and places, languages and customs, physical features and values. They take on various positionings depending on the discourses that are available and the meanings that they negotiate in their daily encounters. I conclude with the implications the findings may have for policymakers, identity politics and educators and with future research directions.

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Dougal, Josephine Kathleen. "Nation, culture and family : identity in a Scottish/Australian popular song tradition." Thesis, Curtin University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/596.

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This study arose out of an interest in my own family’s Scottish song traditions and a desire to understand them within a wider cultural context. Its purpose is to create a critical account of music and migrant identity that brings insights from folklore studies, cultural studies, and migration and diaspora studies together to shed light on transcultural identity formation and maintenance. More specifically, it seeks to ‘discover’ an explanation for why and how the cultural resources/traditions that migrants bring with them continue to have force in migrant family life. It examines the complex of ways in which homeland and hereland are implicated in migrant identities, the role of cultural tradition and family in the migrant experience, and their part in shaping migrant memories, identities and concepts of ‘home’.In examining the salience of homeland culture in migrant family life, this study addresses one of the core questions in migration theory and research, that is, why and how migrants maintain connections to their homeland.1 Much of the migration theory and research that addresses this question focuses on the role of migrant communities and institutions, ethnic networks, and transnational social, economic and political ties, often stressing the connections between kinship groups and families across borders. Some of this work, in the fields of transnational migration and diaspora studies, has placed greater emphasis on the role of ‘imagined’ connections, and on the ways in which migrants make symbolic connections to a sense of homeland as a means of supporting new identities.2 It is these symbolic connections with homeland, rather than the social, political and economic that this study seeks to investigate. This investigation will focus on music as a source of symbolic connections to homeland, and its role in the construction of family and migrant identity.The study posits that national/cultural identity is not determined by membership, nor pervasive cultural constructions of identity, but is rather a process in which people draw upon, appropriate and customise these discourses in an active process of self-making. Its guiding proposition is that national/cultural identity arises in the intersection between the ‘nation’ and the individual, between the ‘public’ and ‘private’, and is mediated by the particular social and cultural contexts in which people operate - migration being one such context.The ways in which the ‘nation’ comes to have personal relevance at the local level is explored through the interchanges between public song traditions and localised forms of song tradition. The focus of the thesis is on the role of Scottish song culture in constructing representations of national/cultural identity, and how such cultural constructions, their modes of production and dissemination interact with local practices and meanings, and how these dynamics play out in the construction of migrant cultural identity.In pointing to how the ‘nation’ is made local in the context of migration, the study challenges the idea that cultural traditions are backward looking and regressive, and frozen in time in diaspora, arguing instead that tradition and the past are actively deployed as key cultural strategies in migrants’ creation of home and belonging. In doing so, it makes a case for how collective ideas of nation are appropriated and customised at the local level, and how the cultural construction of Scottishness in song, deployed in a Scottish/Australian migrant family, acted as important referents to their identity and gave shape and meaning to their formulations of Scottish/Australian identity.

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Byrne, Jennifer Eileen. "The Link Between Differing Conceptions of National Identity and Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence from the United States." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195356.

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In the 1990's, the U.S. saw one of the largest periods of migration to its shores in its history. This surge of immigrants can be classified predominantly as Latino or Asian, which will inevitably result in demographic changes within the country. The largest proportion of immigrants claim Mexico as their country of origin, and according to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hispanics now represent the country's largest minority population. Given these facts, it is important to examine a body of literature that warns of the "balkanization" of America and suggests an inability of this new wave of immigrants to assimilate into American society. Previous research on attitudes towards immigrants has found both cultural and economic indicators to be important determinants of public opinion on this issue. I will expand this research by examining how the public perception of the ability of immigrants to assume an "American" identity and assimilate into society will affect attitudes towards immigrants. My primary research questions are: 1) How do different conceptions of national identity affect attitudes towards immigrants? 2) How do perceptions of the ability of immigrant groups to integrate into American society affect restrictionist views on immigration policy? 3) What group and individual-level characteristics determine differing levels of support for the dimensions of American national identity? My findings suggest that the weight attributed to three distinct dimensions of national identity conditions attitudes towards immigrants and their incorporation into American society.

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Stachowski, Maika. "Die kulturelle und nationale Identität in Zeiten der Einwanderung in Argentinien (1880-1930)." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2009. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/3338/.

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Die 1880er Jahre waren der Beginn einer massiven europäischen Einwanderung nach Argentinien. In dieser Arbeit werden kulturelle, politische, wirtschaftliche und demographische Veränderungen für das Land untersucht und welche Auswirkungen diese auf das Selbstverständnis der argentinischen Intellektuellen und die argentinische Kultur hatten. Die leitende Frage wird sein, wie eine kulturelle und nationale Identität in Zeiten der massiven Einwanderungswellen im Untersuchungszeitraum entstehen konnte. Dabei wird die politisch-historische Entwicklung, d.h. die Konstitution einer nationalen Identität, erörtert: Ist Argentinien mit der Unabhängigkeit im Jahre 1810 tatsächlich wirtschaftlich und politisch eigenständig geworden ist? Durch Balibars Nationenbegriff wird verifiziert werden, dass sich das Land erst im Untersuchungszeitraum zu einer Nation wandelte, das jedoch eine fragile Identität besaß. Zum anderen werden anhand des Assmannschen Konzeptes des Kulturellen Gedächtnisses die Erinnerungskultur und die Ausbildung eines kulturellen Gedächtnisses der argentinischen Intellektuellen erörtert. Ein einheitliches Bewusstsein für nationale und kulturelle Werte war nicht existent. Dies spiegelte sich in der Literatur, in der Kunst und im Theater im Untersuchungszeitraum wider. Im Laufe der massiven Einwanderungsströme entstand eine neue Gesellschaft, nichtsdestotrotz wurden kulturelle Neuerungen der Einwanderer kaum in die kulturelle Identität integriert. Nicht nur die eigene Kultur wurde verklärt gesehen, sondern auch die europäische Kultur überformt und selektiert, dessen Abbild in die argentinische Kultur integriert wurde. Durch diese Arbeit sollen Erkenntnisse aus historischer Sicht gewonnen werden, die bis heute Argentinien und den gesamten südamerikanischen Kontinent prägen: die Frage nach der Identität, die in Zeiten massiver Immigration verstärkt gestellt wurde.
In Argentina the 1880s mark the beginning of a huge flow of European immigrants to the country. This article deals with the cultural, political, economic and demographic changes and which consequences these had for the identity of Argentinian intellectuals and for Argentinian culture. The article also focuses on answering the prevalent question of how a cultural and national identity could develope in times of massive immigration during this era. The author attempts at examining the political development within its historic context, which gives key clues about the constitution of a national identity: Did Agentina really become self-sufficient politically and economically with its independence in 1810? Balibar's definition of nations confirms that the country of Argentina only developed into a nation during the examined time period of the 1880s, although with a yet fragile identity. The concept of Assmann helps to identify the collective memory and cultural identity of Argentinian intellectuals. Prior to the migration flow examined in this article, a homogeneous consciousness of national and cultural values did not exist. Literature, art and theatre during the examined era all reflected the lack thereof. During the migration flow a new society developed, in which, nevertheless, new cultural values of the immigrants were barely absorbed. Not only did one view Argentinian values in an idealized way, but one also saw selected parts of European culture as ideals, which were integrated into Argentinian culture as they were understood. The findings drawn from a historic context in this article will provide valuable information about questions of identity that, especially during migration flows, continue to be of interest in Argentina and the whole South American continent until today.

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Phaneuf, Victoria M. "National and Minority Cultures in 21st Century France: North African and Pied-Noir Cultural Associations." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/265371.

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Social conflict is common in many nations around the world. Tensions often arise from cultural misunderstandings and disagreements over national and group membership in multicultural populations. France offers a particularly clear example of such unrest. As a contemporary multi-ethnic, multicultural nation, France advocates both the belief in universal human rights as well as assimilationist policies designed to create a singular majority culture. North African immigrants and Pied-Noir repatriates are two groups at the center of recent debate in France. Both have historical ties to colonial French North Africa, but now reside within the modern French state. Each offers a unique case study of alternative strategies related to cultural negotiation and social tension as both groups currently demand recognition as French citizens and minorities. This dissertation analyses how North African and Pied-Noir minority communities in France engage discourses of history, culture, and identity to create a hospitable place for themselves in the French nation by redefining themselves both as minorities and as active citizens. One primary mechanism through which these groups achieve these goals is cultural associations, or social clubs. Cultural associations were legalized in 1901 and have not yet found a well-established role in France. Minorities use this institutional fluidity to develop concurrently their national and minority identities. Within such associations, they develop performances for both minority and outside audiences, engage contemporary French understandings of "culture," and acquire attention and resources needed to enact social change. One of the recurring tropes in such performances is the display of minority history and the role minorities play in French history. Through analysis of such activities this dissertation argues that these groups create new conceptions of national membership through their assertion of their right to be members in the French nation while retaining their cultural difference.

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Holliday, Brian. "For the term of its national life : the Australian (imagi)nation." Thesis, Curtin University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1484.

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This thesis is divided into two sections; a theoretical section which looks at the analytic construction of collective identities, and a section which applies the theory to two Australian novels. The first four chapters use the theories of Roy Wagner, Benedict Anderson, Jacques Lacan and Homi Bhabha to look at the often unconscious construction of culture and national, and at the process of hybridity to which those constructions are continually subject.The next three chapters examine Glenda Adamss Games of the Strong and Nicholas Haslucks The Bellarmine Jug showing how an unconscious development of Australian themes runs through the novels, regardless of a lack of Australian characters and setting. The novels show the complex, unique and frequently misunderstood position Australia holds between the cultures, nations and civilisations of the East and the West.The conclusion draws together the principal arguments of the thesis and highlights some concerns which they imply for Australian and its national imagination.

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Stolz, Klaus. "Football and National Identity in Scotland." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-77644.

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Die Antrittsvorlesung untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Fußball und nationaler Identität in Schottland unter drei Gesichtspunkten. Zunächst wird aus soziologischer Perspektive danach gefragt, ob Fußball in Schottland die nationale Identität eher bestärkt (etwa durch die eigene schottische Nationalmannschaft) oder schwächt (durch die Stärkung innerschottischer Konfliktlinien – z.B. religiöser Konflikte in Celtic vs Rangers). Aus semiotischer Perspektive wird danach nach dem spezifischen Schottland-Bild gefragt, das der schottische Fußball vermittelt. Zuletzt werden aus historischer Perspektive die wesentlichen Wandlungstendenzen der identifizierten Wechselbeziehung nachgezeichnet. Die Vorlesung zeigt dabei am Beispiel des Fußballs in Schottland, dass die volle Bedeutung kultureller Praxis nur über einen pluralistischen Ansatz zu verstehen ist
In his inaugural lecture Klaus Stolz investigates the relationship between football and national identity in Scotland. From a sociological perspective he asks whether football can be seen as strengthening or weakening a specific Scottish national identity. In a second part he asks, employing a semiotic approach, what kind of Scottishness is reflected, reproduced and projected in Scottish football. Finally, a historical perspective reveals the changes this complex interrelationship has undergone over time. Taken together the lecture uses Scottish football to exemplify that the meaning of cultural practice can only be fully grasped by a pluralistic approach of Social and Cultural Studies

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Yoder, Audra Jo. "Making Tea Russian: The Samovar and Russian National Identity, 1832-1901." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1240596270.

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George, Christina Anne Maree. "Anthem for the year 2000 and beyond : Australian rock music and cultural identity." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002.

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This thesis develops and theorises the presence of an identifiable cultural and national identity through Australian rock music, concentrating on the 1990s and into the year 2000 and beyond. It draws upon the traditions of Australian culture, being the beach, sport and suburbia as well as those 'new' cultural values and indicators such as multiculturalism. Music analysis comes from a hybrid background involving the disciplines of sociology, musicology, cultural studies and popular culture. The works are diverse and include that of Simon Frith, Thomas Swiss, Graeme Turner, Marcus Breen and Toby Cresswell. These theorists provide a diverse analysis of contemporary rock music and how it influences cultural identity. More specifically, Breen, Turner, Cunningham and Mitchell all theorise the influence rock music has had on Australia and how it has shaped cultural identity, policy and infrastructure. A textual analysis of lyrics, images and the idea of an Australian sound will provide a focus on how the music itself constructs a path to the idea of an Australian identity. Industry and policy as seen though Triple J and Channel [V], parallel importation and radio quotas respectively, play an integral part in how these areas contribute to the cultural value that Australian music provides. By analysing these aspects through the concepts of antipodality and hybridity, it will be asserted that Australian music contributes to the recontextualisation of Australian cultural identity.

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Leibman, Yvonne. "The actions of the state in the production of cultural heritage the treatment of a cultural icon as bearer of values, identity and meaning at Groot Constantia in Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5032.

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Cruz, Lynette Hi'ilani. "From resistance to affirmation, we are who we were: Reclaiming national identity in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, 1990 - 2003." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/705.

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In most texts about Hawaiian history, the Hawaiian Kingdom was overthrown in 1893. Hawai'i, as a result, was then governed first by a Provisional Government, then by the Republic of Hawai'i. Such texts further note that in 1898, Hawai'i was annexed to the United States and, subsequently, became the State of Hawai'i through a vote of the people in 1959. This dissertation examines Hawaiian history from a different perspective, one based on the issue of 'legality', and on documentation that surfaced in the 1990s that challenges the United States' claim to annexation of Hawai'i. The illegality of the takeover by haole businessmen, the resistance of Queen Lili'uokalani and her loyal subjects to the takeover, statements by then-President Grover Cleveland referencing the overthrow as an "Act of War," in many ways set the tone for the present-day sovereignty movement. Highlighted are some of the activities within the Hawaiian sovereignty movement during the 1990s and the first few years of this century that are turning points in the struggle for Hawaiian sovereignty. Identified spokespersons for the movement are extensively cited, as well as individuals with strong but thoughtful opinions. Many of the citations used were gathered and saved from emails or from relevant websites. Prophecy, and the acknowledgement of spirituality as a grounding force in a unified movement, is a significant element, and serves to remind activists, and especially Hawaiian activists, that the work to re-establish the nation can only succeed if it is based in Hawaiian cultural concepts that are pono (correct or in proper relationship). Maintaining 'right relationships' between the people, the heavens and the earth is necessary to successfully carry forward the reclaimed Hawaiian nation and the identity of the people as Hawaiian nationals, as the Queen directed a century ago. Most importantly, it allows those involved in the struggle to see themselves, not as victims, but as masters of their own fate.

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Holliday, Brian. "For the term of its national life : the Australian (imagi)nation." Curtin University of Technology, School of Communication and Cultural Studies, 1993. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=11621.

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This thesis is divided into two sections; a theoretical section which looks at the analytic construction of collective identities, and a section which applies the theory to two Australian novels. The first four chapters use the theories of Roy Wagner, Benedict Anderson, Jacques Lacan and Homi Bhabha to look at the often unconscious construction of culture and national, and at the process of hybridity to which those constructions are continually subject.The next three chapters examine Glenda Adamss Games of the Strong and Nicholas Haslucks The Bellarmine Jug showing how an unconscious development of Australian themes runs through the novels, regardless of a lack of Australian characters and setting. The novels show the complex, unique and frequently misunderstood position Australia holds between the cultures, nations and civilisations of the East and the West.The conclusion draws together the principal arguments of the thesis and highlights some concerns which they imply for Australian and its national imagination.

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Albu, Stefana Maria. "What is German? : migrating identities in Turkish-German literature : an analysis of cultural Influences on German national identity /." Norton, Mass. : Wheaton College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/15117.

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Lovell, Julia. "China's search for a Nobel prize in literature : literature, and national and cultural identity in twentieth-century China." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.620533.

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Olsson, Fredrik. "Post-Colonial Reading: Cultural Representations of Ethnicity and National Identity in English Textbooks for Swedish Upper Secondary School." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-28232.

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The aim of this study is to examine if English textbooks offer a cultural perspective of the English-speaking world in accordance with Swedish ordinances and recent research. The research question is: How is the English-speaking world culturally represented in English textbooks for Swedish upper secondary school course A in terms of ethnicity and national identity? The study comprises four textbooks from 2000 or later. The analysis is carried out within the framework of post-colonial theory. Four aspects are focused on: the ideological point of view, the representation of ethnicity, the representation of national identity and how these issues correspond to the ordinances. The results display that the books contain almost no biased stereotypes and that they fulfil several, if not always all, of the requirements of the English syllabus. All books include texts that provide balanced information about the ways of living, the cultural traditions and the historical conditions of a few selected countries. There are also exercises and activities that encourage intercultural understanding. However, the focus is mainly on the West and the view of culture is remarkably often based on national and monolithic assumptions. In particular, the positive values of cultural and ethnic diversity are still not fully acknowledged. In order to develop international solidarity and greater understanding and tolerance of other people, a higher degree of post-colonial and diasporic writing is needed. Above all, cultural issues have to be allowed to imbue the entire material.

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Zelef, Mustafa Haluk. "A Research On The Representation Of Turkish National Identity: Buildings Abroad." Phd thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/924522/index.pdf.

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This thesis is the result of an attempt to record, classify and develop an understanding of the motivations and dynamics in the design and realization of the buildings that explicitly or implicitly represent the Turkish identity abroad. In the meantime it is aimed to reflect on and identify the function of architecture and buildings in the formulation and representation of national identity. Besides the analysis of the meanings assigned to the architectural forms, one underlying intention was to clarify how different aspects of architecture and building processes could play roles in the construction and representation of national identity within the context of the embassies, monuments, exhibition pavilions and centers for cultural and religious purposes. During the analysis of these architectural works, basic mechanisms of the concept of identity and its repercussions in relation to physical milieus -i.e. its comparative nature, its reception by the others- are tried to be elaborated. Cases other than the Turkish case are referred to when necessary. Viewpoints of variety of actors in the realization of these works -i.e. architects, diplomats, statesmen and contractors- are analyzed to elucidate the similarities and differences of approaches. iv Besides the role of international relations, the dominant social, political and economic characteristics in different historical periods of Turkey and their implications on the buildings abroad are exposed by this study. Reactions of the architectural discourse in Turkey to those characteristics concerning the national identity, i.e. foreign architects, globalization, and promotion of architects by the state, are elaborated. While some themes are perennial at the discursive and formal level, variations of attitudes regarding the host context are observed in the study.

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Turabian, Michael. "Echoes of Home: The Diasporic Performer and the Quest for "Armenianness"." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20497.

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Current scholarship recognizes that music is a powerful channel that can manifest individual identity. But such research takes for granted music as a symbol of collective cultural identity, and, therefore, neglects examining how music in general, but musical performance in particular, functions to produce and reproduce a society at large. Indeed, what is missing is a rigorous understanding of not only how the act of performing forms collective identity, but also how it acts as an agency, indeed, perhaps the only agency that enables this process. As Thomas Turino suggests, externalized musical practice can facilitate the creation of emergent cultural identities, and help in forming life in new cultural surroundings. The present thesis examines the dynamics between cultural identity and music from the perspective of the performing musician. By examining musical situations in the context of the Armenian – Canadian diaspora, I will show how performers themselves both evoke feelings of nostalgia for the homeland and maintain the traditions of their culture through the performance event, while simultaneously serving as cultural ambassadors for the Armenian – Canadian community. My thesis outlines four key themes that are crucial in understanding the roles of musicians in Armenian culture. They are tradition bearer, educator, cultural ambassador, and artisan. As boundaries between peoples and nations progressively blur, I conclude that performance proves a vital medium where a search for national identity can occur, frequently resulting in the realization of one’s ethnic identity. Ultimately, without the labors of the performing musician, music would be unable to do the social work that is necessary in forming cultural, social, or even personal identities.

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Dlol, Somer. "The Palestinian Diaspora in Jordan: A case of Systematic Discriminations." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22959.

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The purpose of this research is to study the discourse constructions of the Palestinians in the diaspora residing in Jordan. The discourse constructed of the Palestinian, enables the government to discriminatory actions towards the Palestinians residing in Jordan, where for example Palestinian-origin Jordanian citizens have in recent years experienced their Jordanian citizenship been revoked. Jordan does this as an action to protect their own cultural and national identity. The theoretical framework which will be used in this research will be the one of constructivism, where the theory is used to analyze the construction of a threat. The research will be using a critical discourse analysis and will be analyzing speeches held from King Abdullah II of Jordan. The conclusions of this research will show how the Palestinian discourse in Jordan enables the Jordanian government to implement discriminatory policies toward the Palestinian-origin Jordanian citizens.

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Mali, Sofia. "A cross-cultural analysis of curatorial practices : Byzantine exhibitionary complexes in three European national museums." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2017. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/25553.

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This thesis presents three main arguments. First, that curating in national museums is a process of meaning making and that the exhibitionary meaning is situated in and mediated by culture, thus, the products of curatorial work, i.e. the exhibitionary complexes are complex political and cultural constructions. Second, that the exhibitionary complexes final visual outcome, i.e. the exhibitionary complexes images and texts result in the presentation of mythological constructs of Byzantium as the only truth to their audiences. Third, that what is finally communicated through the presentation of mythological constructs of Byzantium is national identity and dominant cultural values. The latter is effected through the representation of the Byzantine Empire as part of the identity of the dominant cultural group of the country to which each national museum belongs. National identity is communicated through the exhibitionary complexes, either by suggesting historical continuity of the contemporary national identity of a country s dominant cultural group through Byzantium, as in the case of the Greek national museums, or by undermining the very idea that Byzantine history, European history and British history are so very different, as in the case of the British Museum. Both interpretations are culturally constructed realities . The above approaches are explained through the investigation of exhibitionary meaning around Byzantium, by identifying and analysing the nature and cultural functions of the presuppositions that are involved in each museum s curatorial practices. These presuppositions are the cultural ideas, values and beliefs of the involved dominant cultural groups on Byzantium and on their own identity. My identification and analysis of these presuppositions includes research on the historical, political and cultural context of each museum, the culturally accepted history and art history literature of each country on Byzantium, as well as research on museum archives. By explaining and using the curatorial concepts of democratisation and demystification , adopted and adapted to the practices of the museums under study, and by analysing the British and Greek interpretations of Byzantium, which make themselves apparent in the images and texts of the British and Greek exhibitionary complexes , I provide a cultural account of the making of exhibitionary meaning, explaining contemporary perceptions of Byzantium, its use in identity making and its relation to national politics. By doing this, I also explain the implications of those presuppositions to the making of exhibitionary meaning, and I provide an explanation of how and why the power system of the exhibitionary complex is still in play although we are shifting into the era of the Democratic museum (Fleming, 2008). The concluding remarks of the thesis include suggestions for the further development of the curatorial practices of democratisation and demystification.

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Akuupa, Michael Uusiku. "The formation of 'national culture' in post- apartheid Namibia: a focus on state sponsored cultural festivals in Kavango region." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3275_1363169299.

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This dissertation investigates colonial and postcolonial practices of cultural representations in Namibia. The state sponsored Annual National Culture Festival in Namibia was studied with a specific focus on the Kavango Region in northeastern Namibia. I was particularly interested in how cultural representations are produced by the nation-state and local people in a post-colonial African context of nation-building and national reconciliation, by bringing visions of cosmopolitanism and modernity into critical dialogue with its colonial past. During the apartheid era, the South African administration encouraged the inhabitants of its &bdquo
Native Homelandsâ to engage in &bdquo
culturalâ activities aimed at preserving their traditional cultures and fostering a sense of distinct cultural identity among each of Namibiaâs officially recognized &bdquo
ethnic groupsâ. This policy was in line with the logic of South African colonial apartheid rule of Namibia, which relied upon the
emphasis of ethnic differences, in order to support the idea that the territory was inhabited by a collection of &bdquo
tribesâ requiring a central white government to oversee their development. The colonial administration resorted to concepts of &bdquo
traditionâ and &bdquo
cultural heritageâ in order to construct Africans as members of distinct, bounded communities (&bdquo
tribesâ) attached to specific
localities or &bdquo
homelandsâ. My central argument is that since Namibian independence in 1990, the postcolonial nation-state has placed emphasis on cultural pride in new ways, and on
identifying characteristics of &bdquo
Namibian-nessâ. This has led to the institution of cultural festivals, which have since 1995 held all over the country with an expressed emphasis on the notion of &bdquo
Unity in
Diversityâ. These cultural festivals are largely performances and cultural competitions that range from lang-arm dance, and &bdquo
traditionalâ dances, displays of &bdquo
traditionalâ foodstuffs and dramatized representations. The ethnographic study shows that while the performers represent diversity through dance and other forms of cultural exhibition, the importance of belonging to the nation and a
larger constituency is simultaneously highlighted. However, as the study demonstrates, the festivals are also spaces where local populations engage in negotiations with the nation-state and contest regional forms of belonging. The study shows how a practice which was considered to be a &bdquo
colonial representationâ of the &bdquo
otherâ has been reinvented with new meanings in postcolonial Namibia. The study demonstrates through an analysis of cultural representations such as song, dances and drama that the festival creates a space in which &bdquo
social interactionâ takes place between participants, spectators and officials who organize the event as social capital of associational life.

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Mēktrairat, Nakharin. "A cultural explanation of the 1932 political change in Siam : power of narration and national identity in Thai politics /." Electronic version of summary Electronic version of examination, 2004. http://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/gakui/gaiyo/3857.pdf.

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Fujita, Yuiko. "Cultural migrants : the 'imagined West' and the national identity of young Japanese in Tokyo, New York City and London." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.427934.

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Kartomi, Margaret. "New Directions in the Discourse on Cultural and National Identity, with Special Reference to Europe and the European Union." Bärenreiter Verlag, 2012. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A71772.

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Lampert, Jo Ann. "The whole world shook: shifts in ethnic, national and heroic identities in children's fiction about 9/11." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16550/.

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Like many other cataclysmic events September 11, a day now popularly believed to have 'changed the world', has become a topic taken up by children's writers. This thesis, titled The Whole World Shook: Ethnic, National and Heroic Identities in Children's Fiction About 9/11, examines how cultural identities are constructed within fictional texts for young people written about the attacks on the Twin Towers. It identifies three significant identity categories encoded in 9/11 books for children: ethnic identities, national identities, and heroic identities. The thesis argues that the identities formed within the selected children's texts are in flux, privileging performances of identities that are contingent on post-9/11 politics. This study is located within the field of children's literature criticism, which supports the understanding that children's books, like all texts, play a role in the production of identities. Children's literature is highly significant both in its pedagogical intent (to instruct and induct children into cultural practices and beliefs) and in its obscurity (in making the complex simple enough for children, and from sometimes intentionally shying away from difficult things). This literary criticism informed the study that the texts, if they were to be written at all, would be complex, varied and most likely as ambiguous and contradictory as the responses to the attacks on New York themselves. The theoretical framework for this thesis draws on a range of critical theories including literary theory, cultural studies, studies of performativity and postmodernism. This critical framework informs the approach by providing ways for: (i) understanding how political and ideological work is performed in children's literature; (ii) interrogating the constructed nature of cultural identities; (iii) developing a nuanced methodology for carrying out a close textual analysis. The textual analysis examines a representative sample of children's texts about 9/11, including picture books, young adult fiction, and a selection of DC Comics. Each chapter focuses on a different though related identity category. Chapter Four examines the performance of ethnic identities and race politics within a sample of picture books and young adult fiction; Chapter Five analyses the construction of collective, national identities in another set of texts; and Chapter Six does analytic work on a third set of texts, demonstrating the strategic performance of particular kinds of heroic identities. I argue that performances of cultural identities constructed in these texts draw on familiar versions of identities as well as contribute to new ones. These textual constructions can be seen as offering some certainties in increasingly uncertain times. The study finds, in its sample of books a co-mingling of xenophobia and tolerance; a binaried competition between good and evil and global harmony and national insularity; and a lauding of both the commonplace hero and the super-human. Being a recent corpus of texts about 9/11, these texts provide information on the kinds of 'selves' that appear to be privileged in the West since 2001. The thesis concludes that the shifting identities evident in texts that are being produced for children about 9/11 offer implicit and explicit accounts of what constitute good citizenship, loyalty to nation and community, and desirable attributes in a Western post-9/11 context. This thesis makes an original contribution to the field of children's literature by providing a focussed and sustained analysis of how texts for children about 9/11 contribute to formations of identity in these complex times of cultural unease and global unrest.

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Lima, Maria Rosalete Pontes. "Festa e Conflito: visÃes do Brasil em Oswald de Andrade." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2009. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=7626.

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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico
Este trabalho tem como objetivo realizar uma interpretaÃÃo das imagens que Oswald de Andrade elaborou sobre o Brasil e os brasileiros nas obras âPau Brasilâ (1925) e âMarco Zero Iâ (1943). A pesquisa partiu de uma reflexÃo teÃrica sobre a relaÃÃo entre modernidade, naÃÃo e identidade, voltando-se em seguida para elementos da tradiÃÃo do pensamento brasileiro que influenciaram o autor e para a trajetÃria dele, visando estabelecer vÃnculos entre esse pensamento, a biografia e o conteÃdo de seus textos. A escolha das obras foi guiada por dados biogrÃficos e da histÃria do paÃs, uma vez que cada obra foi escrita em momentos distintos da vida nacional e do autor. O primeiro livro foi escrito durante a âRepÃblica Velhaâ, fase de auge artÃstico e financeiro de Oswald. O segundo foi escrito na âEra Vargasâ, por um Oswald militante do Partido Comunista e isolado dos antigos cÃrculos da elite que costumava frequentar. Cada obra apresenta seu universo prÃprio de questÃes, referentes a contextos sociohistÃricos especÃficos e Ãs preferÃncias ideolÃgicas do autor. Percebe-se que ambas as obras compartilham eixos temÃticos, como a relaÃÃo com o estrangeiro, a matriz nacionalista e a tentativa de registrar as idiossincrasias da linguagem brasileira. No entanto, apresentam versÃes distintas do Brasil. Um Brasil para exportaÃÃo, da festa, dos exotismos, das fusÃes e misturas criativas; outro um Brasil fragmentado, permeado por conflitos das mais diversas ordens, desde um conflito civil revelador do choque de interesses das elites estaduais, atÃ conflitos de ordem Ãtnica e socioeconÃmica. Festa e conflito, celebraÃÃo e guerra sÃo dois eixos a partir dos quais esse autor constrÃi a naÃÃo brasileira em suas pÃginas e o presente texto Ã um convite a dialogar com essa construÃÃo.
This research intends to develop an interpretation of the images that Oswald de Andrade produced about Brazil and Brazilians in his works Pau Brazil (1925) and Marco Zero I (1943). The study began with a theoretical reflection on the relationship between modernity, nation and identity. Susbsequently, this was followed by a critique of the elements of the tradition of Brazilian thought that influenced the author and his career; in order to establish links between this thought, de Andradeâs personal background and the content of his texts. The choice of the works was guided by the history of the country and biographical details, as each work was written during different times of national significance and the authorâs personal life. The first book was written during the RepÃblica Velha, the zenith both artistically and financially of the author. The second was written in the Vargas era, by a Andrade now militant in the Communist Party, isolated from the elite circles with whom he used to frequent. Each piece presented its own universe of issues relating to these specific socio-historical contexts and ideological preferences of the author. It was observed that both works shared themes between the relationship with foreign countries and immigrants, the nationalist matrix and the attempts to register the idiosyncrasies of the Brazilian language. However, each evoked different versions of Brazil. A Brazil for export - of revelry, exoticisms and creative mixtures; and another Brazil - fragmented, permeated by conflicts of the most diverse origins from civil tensions demonstrated by the clash of interests of state elites, to ethnic and socio-economic struggles. Feast and conflict, celebration and war are the two axes from which the author built the Brazilian nation in his pages, and this work is an invitation for dialogue with his ideas.

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Ajjo, Lilaf. "Modern Turkish National Identity in Museums : Representation Analysis in Istanbul Museums and Heritage Sector Between 2010-2020." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-448669.

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The representation of national identity in museums of the 21st century´s diverse and multicultural societies is a challenging task. It is a task that involves questions of narrative and heritage inclusivity as well as questions of power and ideology. This thesis includes an investigation of the representation of the Turkish national identity in two state owned museums, one private museum and two contested heritage sites in Istanbul. Both contested sites were legally transformed from museums to mosques in 2020. The investigation also involves questions of power and legitimacy in the Turkish heritage sector in the past decade. Qualitative methods including observations, grounded theory initial coding, exhibition spatial syntax analysis and objects´ value analysis are used in the research. The analysis results revealed a fragmentation in the Turkish national identity representation and in the power structure of the Turkish heritage sector where different key actors are involved in national identity production and representation. The History narrative represented is linear and fragmented where each selected museum presents a different historical period with an emphasis on the multicultural nature of the region historically. Ideology and the heritage policy analysis has revealed that the Turkish heritage sector is heading towards an Ottoman based ideology instead of the secular Kemalism ideology that had built the modern Turkish national identity since the establishment of the republic in 1923. The results show that the challenge of representing inclusive and sustainable heritage and national identities in multicultural societies is complex. However, to achieve that, museums and heritage sectors would have to adopt policies of recognition and civil society involvement. The state would have to take an architect role by funding the museum and heritage sector without interfering in museum´s function. This is a two years master’s thesis in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies.
Representationen av nationella identiteter i museerna av 2000-talets mångkulturella samhälle är en utmanande uppgift. En uppgift som involverar frågor om integration, nationellt kulturarv och narrative inkludering samt frågor om makt och ideologi. Denna uppsats omfattar en undersökning av den turkiska nationella identitetsrepresentationen i två statliga museer och ett privat museum samt två omtvistade kulturarv i Istanbul. De två omtvistade platserna omvandlandes från museer till moskéer år 2020. Undersökningen omfattar också frågor om makt och legitimitet inom den turkiska kulturarvssektorn med fokus på det senaste decenniet. Kvalitativa metoder inklusive observationer, grundad teorins kodning, rumslig syntaxanalys och objekts analys används i forskningen. Analysresultaten avslöjade fragmenteringen av den turkiska nationella identitetsrepresentationen och maktstrukturen i den turkiska kulturarvssektorn där olika nyckelaktörer är involverade i representationen och produktionen av det turkiska nationella identitet. Det historienarrative som är representerat är linjärt och fragmenterad där varje utvalt museum presenterar en specifik historisk period med fokus på regionens mångkulturella historia. Ideologi och kulturarvspolitikanalysen har avslöjat att den turkiska kulturarvssektorn är på väg mot en ottomansk baserad ideologi i stället för den sekulära Kemalism-ideologin som byggde den moderna turkiska nationella identiteten sedan republiken grundades år 1923. Resultaten visar att utmaningen att representera inkluderande och hållbara kulturarv och nationella identiteter i multikulturella samhällen är komplex. För att uppnå detta måste emellertid museer och kulturarvssektorer överväga erkännandepolitik samt civilsamhällets-engagemangspolitik och staten måste ta en arkitektroll genom att finansiera museets och kulturarvssektorn med ett armslängdavstånd. Detta är ett tvåårigt examensarbete i Musei- och kulturarvsvetenskap.

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Donovan, Victoria. "'Nestolichnaya kul'tura' : regional and national identity in post-1961 Russian culture." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:22185307-f4fa-4427-89a5-f40e5de962ec.

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This thesis examines the state-sponsored rise of local patriotism in the post-1961 period, interpreting this as part of the effort to strengthen popular support for and the legitimacy of the Soviet regime during the second phase of de-Stalinization. It shifts the analytical focus away from the Secret Speech of 1956, the time of Khrushchev’s full-scale assault on Stalin and his legacy, to the Twenty-Second Party Congress of 1961, the inauguration of a utopian and pioneering plan to build Communism by 1980. The thesis considers how this famously forward-looking programme gave rise to an institutionalized retrospectivism as Soviet policy makers turned to the past to mobilize popular support for socialist construction. It examines how this process played out in the Russian North West, where Soviet citizens were encouraged to turn inwards to examine their local history and traditions, and to reread these through the lens of Soviet socialism. The thesis takes as a case study the towns of Novgorod, Pskov, and Vologda, where the state-sponsored regeneration of local traditions significantly impacted on the self-perception of local communities. In the first part, I look at the strategies for representing and displaying local culture in pubic institutions: the textual treatment and symbolic ordering of urban space in local tourist guides; the heritage movement and the attribution of cultural value to certain objects from the local landscape; and the primary focuses of the exhibitive 'gaze' in local museums. The second part of the thesis shifts the focus from institutionalized culture to popular culture, examining the informal practices and oral traditions that exist alongside the authoritative discourses of social identity in the post-Soviet period. The popular interpretation of public sculpture, the collective imagination of urban space, and the 'common knowledge' of the past as it is articulated in oral narratives are the focuses of discussion.

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