Cultural representation and state formation: Discourses of ethnicity, nationality, and political community

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
RichardHarvey Brown
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Cultural Representation ◽  
Political Community

Peace Formation and the Reshaping of International Peacebuilding

2021 ◽  
pp. 580-596
Author(s):  
Oliver P. Richmond
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Parallel Process ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Modern State ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
International Peacebuilding

Contrary to most debates about state formation and the development of international peacebuilding, this chapter outlines an alternative perspective on the shaping of local-to-global political community based upon the hybrid political orders produced by the agency of subaltern actors engaged in peaceful forms of politics after war. Drawing on long-standing critical debates it investigates the positive potential of peace formation, outlining the theoretical development of this concept as a parallel process and often in opposition to modern state formation and the evolution of the international peace architecture with which it is often bound.

Religion and the Construction of a Christian Roman Polity

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-113
Author(s):  
Francesco Rotiroti
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Theories Of Religion ◽  
Ancient Christianity

This article seeks to define a theoretical framework for the study of the relation between religion and the political community in the Roman world and to analyze a particular case in point. The first part reviews two prominent theories of religion developed in the last fifty years through the combined efforts of anthropologists and classicists, arguing for their complementary contribution to the understanding of religion's political dimension. It also provides an overview of the approaches of recent scholarship to the relation between religion and the Roman polity, contextualizing the efforts of this article toward a theoretical reframing of the political and institutional elements of ancient Christianity. The second part focuses on the religious legislation of the Theodosian Code, with particular emphasis on the laws against the heretics and their performance in the construction of the political community. With their characteristic language of exclusion, these laws signal the persisting overlap between the borders of the political community and the borders of religion, in a manner that one would expect from pre-Christian civic religions. Nevertheless, the political essence of religion did also adapt to the ecumenical dimension of the empire. Indeed, the religious norms of the Code appear to structure a community whose borders tend to be identical to the borders of the whole inhabited world, within which there is no longer room for alternative affiliations; the only possible identity outside this community is that of the insane, not belonging to any political entity and thus unable to possess any right.

Effect of Aggregation on Bacteriochlorin a Triplet-state Formation: A Laser Flash Photolysis Study¶

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Damoiseau ◽  
Francis Tfibel ◽  
Maryse Hoebeke ◽  
Marie-Pierre Fontaine-Aupart
Keyword(s):  
Triplet State ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash

Of Sand or Soil

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadav Samin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Soil P ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Historical Tradition

Why do tribal genealogies matter in modern-day Saudi Arabia? What compels the strivers and climbers of the new Saudi Arabia to want to prove their authentic descent from one or another prestigious Arabian tribe? This book looks at how genealogy and tribal belonging have informed the lives of past and present inhabitants of Saudi Arabia and how the Saudi government's tacit glorification of tribal origins has shaped the powerful development of the kingdom's genealogical culture. The book presents the first extended biographical exploration of the major twentieth-century Saudi scholar Hamad al-Jāsir, whose genealogical studies frame the story about belonging and identity in the modern kingdom. It examines the interplay between al-Jāsir's genealogical project and his many hundreds of petitioners, mostly Saudis of nontribal or lower status origin who sought validation of their tribal roots in his genealogical texts. Investigating the Saudi relationship to this opaque, orally inscribed historical tradition, the book considers the consequences of modern Saudi genealogical politics and how the most intimate anxieties of nontribal Saudis today are amplified by the governing strategies and kinship ideology of the Saudi state. Challenging the impression that Saudi culture is determined by puritanical religiosity or rentier economic principles, the book shows how the exploration and establishment of tribal genealogies have become influential phenomena in contemporary Saudi society. Beyond Saudi Arabia, this book casts important new light on the interplay between kinship ideas, oral narrative, and state formation in rapidly changing societies.

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