Michael Hechter
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199247516
- eISBN:
- 9780191599460
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019924751X.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
The nationalism of concern here is collective action designed to render the boundaries of the nation congruent with those of its governance unit. Governance units are territorial units responsible ...
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The nationalism of concern here is collective action designed to render the boundaries of the nation congruent with those of its governance unit. Governance units are territorial units responsible for providing the bulk of collective goods to their members. Nations, for their part, are highly solitary, territorially concentrated, culturally distinctive groups. On the basis of these definitions, the chapter distinguishes between four analytically distinct types of nationalism: state‐building, peripheral, irredentist, and unification nationalisms.Less
The nationalism of concern here is collective action designed to render the boundaries of the nation congruent with those of its governance unit. Governance units are territorial units responsible for providing the bulk of collective goods to their members. Nations, for their part, are highly solitary, territorially concentrated, culturally distinctive groups. On the basis of these definitions, the chapter distinguishes between four analytically distinct types of nationalism: state‐building, peripheral, irredentist, and unification nationalisms.
Bettina Ng'weno
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804755962
- eISBN:
- 9780804768290
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804755962.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
People of African descent living in the Colombian Andes had long been struggling, as peasants and workers, for political participation and equal citizenship. When the 1991 Colombian Constitution ...
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People of African descent living in the Colombian Andes had long been struggling, as peasants and workers, for political participation and equal citizenship. When the 1991 Colombian Constitution enabled them to claim territory as ethnic groups, their demands became part of a growing worldwide phenomenon of citizenship claims that are based on territory and expressed through cultural distinction. This book looks at two such claims pursued by Afro-Colombians in the 1990s and investigates how territory serves to connect and disconnect citizen and state in the context of today's changing state authority, legitimacy, and institutions. Drawing from a detailed ethnographic study of everyday Afro-Colombian life, the book underscores the centrality of territory to modern states and the consequences of legal categorizations of race and ethnicity. Though focused on Afro-Colombian struggles for political space in their country, the book also illustrates how these struggles are part of events and entities operating on a much broader global front.Less
People of African descent living in the Colombian Andes had long been struggling, as peasants and workers, for political participation and equal citizenship. When the 1991 Colombian Constitution enabled them to claim territory as ethnic groups, their demands became part of a growing worldwide phenomenon of citizenship claims that are based on territory and expressed through cultural distinction. This book looks at two such claims pursued by Afro-Colombians in the 1990s and investigates how territory serves to connect and disconnect citizen and state in the context of today's changing state authority, legitimacy, and institutions. Drawing from a detailed ethnographic study of everyday Afro-Colombian life, the book underscores the centrality of territory to modern states and the consequences of legal categorizations of race and ethnicity. Though focused on Afro-Colombian struggles for political space in their country, the book also illustrates how these struggles are part of events and entities operating on a much broader global front.
Paul Rixon
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- July 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190663124
- eISBN:
- 9780190663162
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190663124.003.0015
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies, World Literature
American programs have been a significant part of British television culture since the 1950s. Helping their mediation into British culture have been press critics who, in the past, have often been ...
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American programs have been a significant part of British television culture since the 1950s. Helping their mediation into British culture have been press critics who, in the past, have often been dismissive of such programs. However, as new forms of quality American programs have appeared, and online media have weakened the role of professional cultural intermediaries, a more supportive discourse has appeared. This chapter explores how contemporary American quality programs are being mediated into UK public debate. It will look at the website of one of the most important national UK newspapers, the Guardian, which has developed its online coverage of TV, often in ways more akin to fan sites, while encouraging public participation. The chapter will reflect on how the Guardian’s online strategy has served a niche UK readership interested in American programs, and how it has helped to reinforce and consecrate this group’s cultural dispositions in relation to US television.Less
American programs have been a significant part of British television culture since the 1950s. Helping their mediation into British culture have been press critics who, in the past, have often been dismissive of such programs. However, as new forms of quality American programs have appeared, and online media have weakened the role of professional cultural intermediaries, a more supportive discourse has appeared. This chapter explores how contemporary American quality programs are being mediated into UK public debate. It will look at the website of one of the most important national UK newspapers, the Guardian, which has developed its online coverage of TV, often in ways more akin to fan sites, while encouraging public participation. The chapter will reflect on how the Guardian’s online strategy has served a niche UK readership interested in American programs, and how it has helped to reinforce and consecrate this group’s cultural dispositions in relation to US television.
Jonathyne Briggs
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199377060
- eISBN:
- 9780199377091
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199377060.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Popular, History, Western
This chapter chronicles the development of the progressive rock genre in France after the Events of 1968, noting the connection between the ideas of ’68, especially the shift in the French ...
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This chapter chronicles the development of the progressive rock genre in France after the Events of 1968, noting the connection between the ideas of ’68, especially the shift in the French counterculture toward transforming static cultural structures that reinforced class distinctions. In ’68, students and workers took over streets and factories in an effort to change French society. Afterward, members of the counterculture upheld remaking of culture as a necessary goal, and the transgressive character of progressive rock was embraced for that explicit purpose. Progressive rock combined elements of jazz, classical, and rock music in a manner that echoed the utopian impulses of ’68, and progressive rockers saw their music as a pathway to a new society. This chapter examines the music of progressive rock bands and countercultural publications to illustrate the shifting boundaries of culture during the 1970s.Less
This chapter chronicles the development of the progressive rock genre in France after the Events of 1968, noting the connection between the ideas of ’68, especially the shift in the French counterculture toward transforming static cultural structures that reinforced class distinctions. In ’68, students and workers took over streets and factories in an effort to change French society. Afterward, members of the counterculture upheld remaking of culture as a necessary goal, and the transgressive character of progressive rock was embraced for that explicit purpose. Progressive rock combined elements of jazz, classical, and rock music in a manner that echoed the utopian impulses of ’68, and progressive rockers saw their music as a pathway to a new society. This chapter examines the music of progressive rock bands and countercultural publications to illustrate the shifting boundaries of culture during the 1970s.
Luke Roberts
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520267374
- eISBN:
- 9780520950320
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520267374.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Established cultural distinctions between status groups of merchants, samurais, peasants, and others were dominant in seventeenth-century Japan. These groups seemed to have a distinctive way of life ...
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Established cultural distinctions between status groups of merchants, samurais, peasants, and others were dominant in seventeenth-century Japan. These groups seemed to have a distinctive way of life and set of values appropriate to the peaceful middle period of the Tokugawa period. This chapter explores how these status groups developed culturally and socially during the changes of the seventeenth century as the period of civil war disappeared from living memory. It aims to modify Eiko Ikegami’s notion of the “taming of the samurai” by suggesting that seventeenth-century pacification involved a much more general “taming of masculinity”. It also discusses the “samuraization” of the populace. In this chapter, the focus is on Enomoto Yazaemon’s autobiography. His accounts provide a glimpse into his life as a merchant as well as into the issue of self-representation. In particular, the chapter dwells on the two issues of honor violence and family headship by following his life through four stages, characterized as wild youth, learning restraint, midlife crisis, and paterfamilias. Throughout his career Yazaemon was concerned with gaining worldly respect, and the achievement of a secured inheritance in competition with his younger brother was the main drama of his life. The first stages of his life involved honor violence and gaining the respect of his parents; the latter stages were marked by control over his household and by problems with his health and physical vigor. Challenging the common notion that only the warrior class praised manly virtues, this chapter examines the rhetoric of masculinity within the merchant class.Less
Established cultural distinctions between status groups of merchants, samurais, peasants, and others were dominant in seventeenth-century Japan. These groups seemed to have a distinctive way of life and set of values appropriate to the peaceful middle period of the Tokugawa period. This chapter explores how these status groups developed culturally and socially during the changes of the seventeenth century as the period of civil war disappeared from living memory. It aims to modify Eiko Ikegami’s notion of the “taming of the samurai” by suggesting that seventeenth-century pacification involved a much more general “taming of masculinity”. It also discusses the “samuraization” of the populace. In this chapter, the focus is on Enomoto Yazaemon’s autobiography. His accounts provide a glimpse into his life as a merchant as well as into the issue of self-representation. In particular, the chapter dwells on the two issues of honor violence and family headship by following his life through four stages, characterized as wild youth, learning restraint, midlife crisis, and paterfamilias. Throughout his career Yazaemon was concerned with gaining worldly respect, and the achievement of a secured inheritance in competition with his younger brother was the main drama of his life. The first stages of his life involved honor violence and gaining the respect of his parents; the latter stages were marked by control over his household and by problems with his health and physical vigor. Challenging the common notion that only the warrior class praised manly virtues, this chapter examines the rhetoric of masculinity within the merchant class.
