Browsing by Subject "nationalism"

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Adam Smith and Nationalism
(2010-10-29) Boyd, Richard
Anti-Mexican Violence, Race, and the Myth of Color-Blindness
(2021) Blas, Jacob D.; Vásquez, Antonio
Race and color-blindness have been examined in Mexican American and Latina/o Studies scholarship to explain the United States’ use of power through white supremacy to enact anti-Mexican violence. Anglo Americans have utilized laws, rhetorical strategies, and the manipulation of whiteness to yield fear and xenophobia, exacerbating negative stereotypes of Mexicans and Mexican Americans (e.g., “illegal,” gang members, drug dealers, rapists, criminals, dirty, diseased, mongrel). These attitudes continue to intensify under neoliberal, center, and right-wing U.S. politics and policing to characterize communities of color and immigrants as the “problem.” Neoliberal and liberal politics that use the concept of “color-blindness” do equal harm by erasing histories and ongoing experiences of white supremacy and colonial domination. The purpose of this study is to highlight how the formation of race, which is intrinsically tied to class and gender, is utilized as a mechanism for anti-Mexican violence in historical and contemporary contexts. I also intend to draw connections between this historical legacy and the contemporary period through a discussion about color-blindness and the dangers of white individualism. An examination of white supremacy, and its manifestation throughout U.S. institutions, is critical to understanding these issues because it allows us to critique the systems of power that continue to dominate the bodies of people of color. Racial hierarchies will continue to be reinforced if whiteness dominates U.S. society, academia, and the political apparatus. If we continue to ignore this history and the ongoing subjection, anti-Mexican violence – a critical facet of nation building – will continue unchallenged.
Cultural Warfare: Balkanization, Turbo-Folk, and the Croatian Response to Serbian Nationalism
(2021-05) Rostami, Hasti (Aryana)
Following the death of Josip Broz Tito in 1980 Yugoslavia was faced with a series of political and social uprisings and challenges that lasted for nearly two decades. The struggle for independence as well as nationalistic movements transformed the Balkan region not just in its politics and the economy but also in its culture. With the rise of nationalism, the music industry of the Balkans took a new route and a new music genre emerged to be known as Turbo-Folk. The paper examines the rise of Turbo-Folk alongside Serbian nationalism, its impact on the culture and music of the region, and the Croatian response to Turbo-Folk and Serbian aggression and aims to offer a better understanding of this music genre’s use during its political period and study the artistic aspects of the cultural movements that it caused across the Balkan region.
The Dynamic of Mexican Nationalism by Frederick C. Turner
(The Journal of Politics, 1969) Ross, Stanley
Josh Malihabadi: Devotion and Doubt
(Hindi Urdu Flagship, 2011-04-19) Naghmi, Abul Hasan
No Money, No Opinion: The Conflict Zones of Power and Capital in Hallyu Fandom Networks
(2021) Oon, Celeste; Lai, Chiu-Mi
In the age of Web 2.0 and particularly since the early 2010s, social media platforms have served as spaces for fans around the world to connect with one another in “imagined communities” to express joint affect for their beloved objects and texts. However, instead of a utopia-like community, online fandom has become a polarized battleground that fragments by the day. This is not a new phenomenon that has arisen because of the internet, but online networks have enabled fans to reach each other with unprecedented ease and speed, allowing for more opportunities to clash. As these rifts intensify, fans continue to create segregated spheres of fan identity, and must continuously renegotiate their relationships across these axes of power. By conceptualizing groups of fans as subnetworks in a network society as theorized by Manuel Castells, this thesis illustrates how fans wield networking, network, and networked power to coordinate their social interactions. Fans explicitly leverage Bourdieu’s notions of economic, social, and cultural capital to build fan subcultural capital that structures their networks. Ultimately, power is derived from geographic and cultural proximity to the media object, which exacerbates differences between fans’ cultural frameworks. These subnetworks of fans, in turn, have become attached to and identified by their geographic and cultural backgrounds, which creates intense rivalries between domestic and international fans. However, the emergence of COVID-19 and the movement online have illuminated instabilities within these subnetworks, suggesting that fans are not as strongly bound to this framework as they think. Rather than culture as the main subnetwork boundary and determinant of opinion, this thesis proposes a consideration of different “realities” occupied by subnetworks of fans, which have created completely divergent perceptions of investment, reward, and affect among fans. By analyzing discourse in online communities of Hallyu fans, this thesis explores power dynamics and sources of conflict in Asian transnational fandoms. Current scholarship in Hallyu highlights its industry potential and soft power potential, but there is a lack of scholarship exploring relationships between fans and how they negotiate power with respect to capital. Additionally, scholarship about fan power is largely focused on Western fandom and cannot accurately be used to theorize about Asian fandom due to differences in structure and behavior. Hallyu fandom as a case study thus offers an interesting perspective, given that its fixation on East Asian media objects concentrates power in Asia, which contrasts with typical white or Western hegemonic power, and its hyper-consumerist nature places an even larger emphasis on the importance of capitalistic practices. This thesis, then, highlights the unique aspects of power dynamics within non-Western transnational and transcultural fandom, and the ways in which they challenge us to reconsider existing theories of fans, networks, and power.
On Urdu and Hindi
(Hindi Urdu Flagship, 2012-04-27) Hanfi, Shamim
Pious Nationalism and its Implications for our Republic
(2018-11-29) Brown, Benjamin
The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide
(Hindi Urdu Flagship, 2013-07-03) Jalal, Ayesha
#RefugeesNotWelcome: Making Gendered Sense of Transnational Asylum Politics on Twitter
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2016) Ingulfsen, Inga Helgudóttir
This paper explores strategies to justify refugee exclusion that are employed by Twitter users who tweet with the hashtag #refugeesnotwelcome. The tweets, understood as transnational nodes of discourse within a transnational platform for identity politics, are analyzed by combining particular theories of nationalism and immigration that are concerned with the gendered cultural construction of identity politics. I demonstrate how the Twitter users imagine themselves as a White Western Enlightened community in binary opposition to refugees who are cast as threats to the community’s racial and cultural preservation, and show how the construction of these binary oppositions relies on inherently gendered discursive strategies.
SAGAR: South Asia Graduate Research Journal, Volume 07
(2001) University of Texas at Austin; Chowdhury, Nusrat; Khanduri, Ritu; Sharma, Shubhra
The Texas History Teachers' Bulletin Volume VIII, Number 2
(University of Texas at Austin, 1920-02-15) The University of Texas at Austin
The Irish Conscription Crisis of 1918
(2021-05) Regan, Michael
The British government's decision to extend conscription to Ireland in the spring of 1918 had implications far beyond the scope of the First World War. The anti-conscription movement in Ireland, led by a coalition of nationalist politicians, the Catholic Church, and the organized labor movement, galvanized tens of thousands in resistance and paved the way for Irish independence, declared by Sinn Féin in January 1919. The development of Irish nationalism throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries combined with the crises of war, creating a unique and significant moment in the Conscription Crisis. First-hand testimony of the Conscription Crisis from the Bureau of Military History shows the power and significance of the anti-conscription movement by providing authentic, and oftentimes quite candid, accounts of the months spent opposing conscription. These testimonies, combined with an examination of the development of Irish nationalism and the impact of the First World War in Ireland, demonstrate the significance of the Conscription Crisis to the larger story of Irish independence.
A Translation Roundtable: Premchand's Rangbhumi
(Hindi Urdu Flagship, 2011-04-29) Trivedi, Harish
Urdu Language Politics in Hyderabad
(Hindi Urdu Flagship, 2010-04-26) Datla, Kavita