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Nationalist–Feminine Bifurcation: The Construction of National Morality Through Gender Regimes

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of nationalist–feminine bifurcation to analyse how nationalist–populist regimes construct moral orders through gendered representations. It explores how women are simultaneously portrayed as the idealized ‘national woman’ and the excluded ‘moral threat’. Through a comparative discourse analysis of four cases—
Muhammed Ramazan Demirci
wiley   +1 more source

The Status of Mythology in Sixteenth Century Lutheran Collections of Aesopic Fables

, 2012
In the ancient corpus of Aesopic fables gods and semi-gods from Greek and Roman mythology often appear. Most commonly Zeus is called upon by fable characters such as the donkey, the snake, and the turtle, all of them pleading for a better destiny ...
Zillén, Erik,, Lund University.
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Welcome Home: A Shared Identity Recognition in the Time of Crisis

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does a society sustain collective identity when formal citizenship and cultural recognition persistently diverge? Drawing on qualitative interviews with native‐born sabras and Russian‐speaking immigrants in Israel, this article develops a recognition‐gap framework specifying the mechanisms through which national belonging is produced ...
Mania Borzenko
wiley   +1 more source

Oscillating Whiteness: A Conceptual Framework for Analysing Transnational Ethno‐Racial Privilege

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances oscillating whiteness as a conceptual framework for analysing ethno‐racial privilege across geopolitical settings. The framework theorizes whiteness as a dynamic resource governed by four mechanisms: recognition (how bodies are classified as white), performativity (how whiteness is enacted through cultural scripts ...
Reza Hasmath
wiley   +1 more source

Balkan Wolf/Dog in Folklore Interpretations in the Mythology of Nature by N. Nodilo through T. R. Đorđević to Lj. Radenković and P. Plas

Studia Mythologica Slavica
This interpretive timeline presents (not necessarily in chronological order) the imaginary of the “Balkan” wolf/dog in South Slavic customs and beliefs from Natko Nodilo, through T. R. Đorđević and Lj.
Suzana Marjanić
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Making Boundaries: Polish Memory, Identity and the Ukrainian Other

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Political elites use historical references abundantly when drawing national boundaries. Despite the prominence of such language, we know little about the ways in which ordinary citizens internalise historical narratives of the Other to construct their national identity.
Félix Krawatzek
wiley   +1 more source

The mythology of evolution

, 2012
What is the nature of life? Scientists turn to natural selection, genes or adaptation to explain the living world, but much of the imagery used to present evolution threatens to distort our understanding of the incredible history of our planet.
Bateman, Chris
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Classical Mythology and Children’s Literature...

, 2022
Hale and Riverlea form the core of the Our Mythical Childhood project’s Australasian team, and Classical Mythology and Children’s Literature... An Alphabetical Odyssey incorporates reflection on children’s literature from around the English-speaking ...
Hale, Elizabeth, Riverlea, Miriam
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The Role of Mavka in the Articulation of Identity Under Conditions of War in Ukraine

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article aims to examine Mavka, a mythological forest spirit that has become a dynamic figure of resistance against occupation in the Russian‐Ukrainian war. Drawing on textual and visual materials from the Zla Mavka Telegram channel, the analysis conceptualizes Mavka as a symbolic framework that integrates three different identities ...
Miriam Billig, Nadia Iermakov
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Comparative Turkish and Hungarian mythology

Tezin temel amacı, Türk ve Macar mitolojileri arasındaki benzerlikleri ve farklılıkları karşılaştırmalı bir analiz yoluyla ortaya koymaktır. Bu yetenek, iki kökenli mitolojik motifleri, ortak figürleri ve anlatı yapıları incelenerek aralıklardaki ...
Özevin, Mehmet Barış
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