Die Konstruktion einer nationalen Identität in Namibia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cosima Crawford
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Interests

What is the essence of national identity? Why is this collective sentiment such an important feature for governments? How is it that the idea that the nation-state is a natural habitat for a culturally-defined, politically non-descript collective is still so very much alive, even though intellectual concepts that show quite the opposite, namely how national culture is constructed according to the political interests of an established regime, have become popular already back in the 80s? The author addresses these and related questions and examines the various initiatives that sought to create a national identity in Namibia during the first decade following its independence.

scholarly journals POLITICAL NATION: CONTENT AND PERSPECTIVES

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Dmytro Dzvinchuk ◽  
Iryna Ozminska
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
National Culture ◽  
National Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mental Work ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Systematic Understanding ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

The article investigates the concept of “political nation”. The analysis of research studies and the generalization of domestic and foreign experience in the formation of political nation prove the relevance of the issues raised. The study of peculiarities of the political nation formation in the coordinates of the Modernist period enhances the understanding of processes in the socio-humanitarian sphere, makes it possible to outline the ambiguity of interpretations of the conceptual foundations of the political nation, and also helps to develop the effective state policy in this area. It should be noted that there are few studies that systematically analyze the domestic and foreign experience of forming the political nation and they need modernization. It has been determined that the identification of the sense of national identity is the result of the appropriate mental work, and external challenges greatly optimize this process. Different approaches to the content characteristics of the notion “political nation” have been considered and summarized. A number of factors (the need to preserve the integrity of state and its consolidation, the formation of civil society, hybrid aggression, etc.) have been outlined, which stipulate the necessity of developing the adequate policy on dealing with crisis phenomena, existing in the Ukrainian national identity. It has been established that the political nation forms a corresponding type of national culture, which creates a more systematic understanding of the genesis, ritual and strategy of national development.

Subversive Archaism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Herzfeld
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Equation Of State ◽  
Urban Slum ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
State Authority ◽  
Modern Nation State

In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and experiences of mountain shepherds in Greece and urban slum dwellers in Thailand, Herzfeld shows how these subversive archaists draw on national histories and past polities to claim legitimacy for their defiance of bureaucratic authority. Although vilified by government authorities as remote, primitive, or dangerous—often as preemptive justification for violent repression—these groups are not revolutionaries and do not reject national identity, but they do question the equation of state and nation. Herzfeld explores the political strengths and vulnerabilities of their deployment of heritage and the weaknesses they expose in the bureaucratic and ethnonational state in an era of accelerated globalization.

Authenticity, hybridity, and difference

Focaal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (45) ◽  
pp. 71-93
Author(s):  
Wil G. Pansters
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Authoritarian Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Authentic Identity ◽  
Recent Developments

This article studies the transformation of the debate about national culture in twentieth-century Mexico by looking at the complex relationship between discourses of authenticity and mestizaje. The article firstly demonstrates how in the first half of the twentieth century, Mexican national identity was constructed out of a state-led program of mestizaje, thereby supposedly giving rise to a new and authentic identity, the mestizo (nation). Secondly, it is argued that the authentication project around mestizaje is riddled with paradoxes that require explanation. Thirdly, the article studies the political dimension of the authenticity discourse and demonstrates how the homogenizing and unifying forces that spring from the process of authentication played an important role in buttressing an authoritarian regime. Fourthly, the article looks at two recent developments: indigenous cultural politics and transnationalism. Here it is shown how discourses of difference, pluralism, and transnationalism are challenging the central tenets of Mexican post-revolutionary national culture and the boundaries of the national Self.

An Unscientific Postscript

2019 ◽  
pp. 269-278
Author(s):  
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Political Psychology ◽  
National Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
General Account ◽  
Do So ◽  
Three Components

This chapter explores some of the tensions between cosmopolitanism and nationalism, from above, and ethnic identity and nationalism, from below, in the light of some of the other chapters in this book. To do so, it sketches a general account of identity, with its three components: criteria of membership, psychological identification, and the treatment of members by others as members of the group, and argues that all are standardly contested. It then incorporates the insights of some of the earlier chapters that show that identification can involve (a) feelings of warmth for the nation, or (b) celebrating national culture and achievements, or (c) conceiving of one’s nation as superior to others, and it discusses the different effects of these on redistributive solidarity with minorities and migrants. Finally, it urges attention to the role of national honour in thinking about national identity and suggests that there is scope for more work on the political psychology of nationalism.

scholarly journals From Fretilin to freedom: The evolution of the symbolism of Timor-Leste's national flag

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-249
Author(s):  
Catherine Arthur
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
National Flag

Since regaining its independence in 2002, nation-building has been the focus of much scholarly research on Timor-Leste. National identity construction is a crucial aspect of this process, yet the ways in which this identity is officially represented has been largely overlooked. This article takes the national flag of Timor-Leste as a case study to explore the ways in which a historic East Timorese national identity has been symbolically constructed and visually embodied. By considering the potency of flags in an East Timorese cultural context, and by analysing the origins of Timor-Leste's flag alongside that of the political party Fretilin (Frente Revolucionária do Timor-Leste Independente), it becomes clear that post-independence re-imaginings of its symbolism have rendered it a powerful national symbol in the contemporary nation-state.

scholarly journals WACANA NEGARA MARITIM DAN REIMAJINASI NASIONALISME INDONESIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Paskarina
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Interests

Although Indonesia is an archipelagic state, but the discourse on maritime state is not yet become the main discourse in the construction of nation and state of Indonesia. This discourse is reemerged when President Joko Widodo make it as one of the main strategic agenda of hisadministration. The re-emerging of this maritime nation discourse is interesting to be studied in terms of nationalism, as an attempt to reconstructing the Indonesian national identity imagination. By tracking the dynamics of the arguments that enliven the discourse in Indonesian politics, this paper wants to uncover why this discourse re-emerged and what is the political interests behind thereimagination of Indonesian nationalism.

scholarly journals Kulturpolitiske kanonkugler

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (104) ◽  
pp. 85-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Møhring Reestorff
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The World

Kulturkanonen og kulturens nationalstatslige forankring The Cultural Canon and the national anchoring of cultureThis paper deals with the importance of the concepts of culture and class in contemporary Danish politics. The concepts are necessary in order to understand the political discourse about globalisation and the ways in which the relations between the local and the global are changing. The Ministry of Culture’s Canon of Culture, launched on the 24th of January 2006, exemplifies how the government’s conception of globalisation as a threat to the nation results in a cultural political strategy, which is an attempt to establish a shared national comprehension of culture as locally bound. It is claimed that culture is used as a means to establish an imagined, territorially bound and unchangeable nation state. The local anchoring of culture entails that trans-national and global communities based on culture and class are undermined in favour of national identity. The complexity of the nation and the world is reduced because of the national standardisation of culture, which installs an illusory order, a community based on values and culture. Culture becomes hierarchical – this article says – when those who are not a part of the community are excluded. Human beings, societies and cultures are then divided.

scholarly journals KEPENTINGAN POLITIK MASYUMI DALAM TAFSIR ANNUR KARYA TENGKU MUHAMMAD HASBI ASHSHIDDIEQY

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Abd Rahman ◽  
Suci Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Political Interests

This study aims to look at aspects of Masyumi's political interests that sparked the spirit of the Islamic State in Annur's interpretation of Hasbi Ashshiddieqy. Using the socio-political analysis approach this study shows that Hasbi's interpretation in Annisa (4): 58-59 carries the political interests of the Masyumi which is aspired to the Islamic State. In this case Hasbi interprets that meant by ulu alamr in this verse is ahl halli wa alaqdi, the legislatif and eksekutif leaders according to the constitution at that time. Although carrying Islam as the basis of the state, Hasbi did not reject the meeting of Islamic teachings and Pancasila within the framework of the nation state. The interests carried by Hasbi are inseparable from his role as a reformist figure and Masyumi's representative in the constituents. This also confirms that a product of interpretation cannot be completely separated from the interests of the interpreter, it can even be a reflection of the political interests of its time

Untimely Development, Ugly History:A Drama in Muslinand the Rejection of National-Historical Time

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-183
Author(s):  
Mary L. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Core

This article considers the politics and aesthetics of the colonial Bildungsroman by reading George Moore's often-overlooked novel A Drama in Muslin (1886). It argues that the colonial Bildungsroman does not simply register difference from the metropolitan novel of development or express tension between the core and periphery, as Jed Esty suggests, but rather can imagine a heterogeneous historical time that does not find its end in the nation-state. A Drama in Muslin combines naturalist and realist modes, and moves between Ireland and England to construct a form of untimely development that emphasises political processes (dissent, negotiation) rather than political forms (the state, the nation). Ultimately, the messy, discordant history represented in the novel shows the political potential of anachronism as it celebrates the untimeliness of everyday life.

Constitutionalizing Sophisticated Racism: Israel's Proposed Nationality Law

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amal Jamal
Keyword(s):  
External Factors ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Nationality Law

This essay analyzes the political motivations behind the Jewish Nation-State Bill introduced in the Knesset in November 2014, shedding light on the ascendancy of the Israeli political establishment's radical right wing. It argues that there were both internal and external factors at work and that it is only by examining these thoroughly that the magnitude of the racist agenda currently being promoted can be grasped. The essay also discusses the proposed legislation's long history and the implications of this effort to constitutionalize what amounts to majoritarian despotism in present-day Israel.

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