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Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how Finnishness is constructed in media texts with and through plastic buckets. By so doing, the article contributes to research on materiality and nationalism through examining the role of a mundane object instead of official national symbols.
Alma Onali
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, 2016 The paradigm tax dispute involves a taxpayer on one side and the government on the other. In that traditional dyad, only the taxpayer matters, even though the interrelatedness of taxpayers across the fiscal system means that the outcome of any one ...
Sugin, Linda
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Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands and Causes and the National Family
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the number of actors drawn into these conflicts.
John Nagle
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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
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Education and Learning in Studies of Nationalism: Anderson and Weber in Focus
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars of nationalism have pointed to the importance of educational institutions for the dissemination of national identities and associated sentimental attachments, yet how nationalism is learned within these educational institutions has received little attention.
Lejla Voloder
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Nations as Natural Families: From Kin Selection to Multilevel Selection
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In nationalism studies, nations are often viewed as artificial constructs. By contrast, many sociobiologists see nations as natural families or kin groups. They explain altruism and shared ancestry among co‐nationals through kin selection theory, which accounts for altruism towards close genetic relatives. In this article, we refine and deepen
Filipe Nobre Faria, Sandra Dzenis
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Антыклерыкальныя настроі шляхты Вялікага Княства Літоўскага ў першай палове XVII стагоддзя [PDF]
, 2014 M.A. PETRAUSKAS (Grodzenskі dzjarzhaўny ўnіversіtjet іmja Ja. Kupaly). М.А. ПEТРАУСКАС (Гродзенскі дзяржаўны ўніверсітэт імя Я. Купалы)На прыкладзе маёмасных канфліктаў даследуецца дачыненне каталіцкай шляхты Вялікага Княства Літоўскага да аўтарытэту ...
Петраўскас, М. А.
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Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why did Australia go from the White Australia Policy, which excluded non‐whites, to institutionalizing multiculturalism policy in the 1970s? This question defies traditional political ideologies of the major political parties, which had long supported the White Australia Policy. This article is a rare empirical demonstration of the Five‐Thread
Julius C. S. Mok
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The Theological Misappropriation of Christianity as a Civilizing Force [PDF]
, 2017 The theological misappropriation of Christianity as a civilizing force occurs when individuals convert to Christianity due to deception that ignores the faith-based aspect of Christianity.
MisirHiralall, Sabrina D.
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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