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Imagined and imaginary whales: Benedict Anderson, Salman Rushdie and George Orwell
George Orwell, anticipating many of the arguments made by Benedict Anderson in the “Patriotism and Racism” chapter of Imagined Communities, illuminated patriotism and nationalism as shifting aspects of a wider dialectical interplay between an identification with imagined communities and a loyalty to humanity. Orwell's essay “Inside the Whale” can be seen, contrary to Salman Rushdie's criticism that it advocates quietism, as an essay about imaginary homelands. In this reading the whale is a metaphor for a dialectical space created by a writer in order to gain purchase on the unceasing dialectic of history. Analysis of The Lion and the Unicorn in this article links Orwell's work with that of Anderson and Rushdie by exploring in his vision of a classless England the relationship between the personal imaginary homeland and the political imagined community
Nazionalismo occidentale e nazionalismo orientale. Sono davvero diversi?
Partendo da Taiwan, l’articolo sviluppa una serie di riflessioni sulla storia dei nazionalismi di tipo creolo, ufficiale, linguistico e a lunga distanza in Asia e in Europa, e sulle loro implicazioni per la Cina. Dopo una indagine comparata di vari esempi e modelli di queste varietà di nazionalismi, viene sostenuto che una netta e inequivocabile distinzione tra nazionalismo asiatico ed europeo è priva di qualsivoglia validità scientifica. The article develops a series of reflections from Taiwan on the history of creole and official, linguistic and long-distance nationalisms in Asia and Europe, and their implications for China. After a comparative survey of various instances and patterns of such varieties of nationalism, it argues that any sharp and unequivocal distinction between Asian and European nationalism lacks all scientific validity
Os não agraciados com o Prêmio Nobel de literatura
The concession of the Nobel Prize for Literature can be seen as a result of the world geopolitical conjuncture. The author analyses the rewarded with the prize in three distinct moments: 1901- 1939, Cold War and post-Cold War. Such study reveals patterns and unveils political and ideological nuances which guide the concession of the Prize.A distribuição do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura pode ser vista como reflexo da conjuntura geopolítica mundial. O autor analisa os agraciados com a premiação em três épocas distintas: 1901-1939, Guerra Fria e pós-Guerra Fria. Tal estudo revela padrões e desvela nuances políticas e ideológicas que pautam a concessão doPrêmio
Problemas dos nacionalismos contemporâneos
The author reflects on important issues related to human migrations and its ambiguous consequence to the fate of nationalisms. His work focus, in particular, on the increasing of the flows of migrants, the phenomenon of dual nationality and national feeling among foreign residents.O autor reflete sobre importantes questões relativas às migrações humanas e suas conseqüências ambíguas para o futuro dos nacionalismos. Seu texto enfoca, em especial, a intensificação dos fluxos migratórios, do fenômeno das duplas nacionalidades e do sentimento nacional entre pessoas que residem no estrangeiro
Bibliography of Indonesian publications: newspapers, non-government periodicals and bulletins, 1945-1958, at Cornell University
Data Paper: Number 33. Total number of pages: 69 p
What Does Women's Facial Attractiveness Signal? Implications for an Evolutionary Perspective on Appearance Enhancement.
In their Target Article, Davis and Arnocky (2020) suggest that evolutionary theories of mate preferences can contribute to our understanding of why appearance-enhancement behaviors are seemingly ubiquitous. We support their argument that an interdisciplinary approach, in which evolutionary and other perspectives are fully integrated, will give us a more complete understanding of appearance-enhancement behaviors. We also agree that evolutionary theories of mate preferences have the potential to provide new insights into why such behaviors are so common. Here, we use the literature on women’s facial attractiveness to highlight an important limitation of this argument: uncertainty about precisely what is signalled by physical attractiveness
Sacred communities: contestations and connections
This article discusses a project whose purpose was to review existing qualitative and quantitative data from two separate studies to provide new insights about everyday religion and belonging. Researchers engaged in knowledge exchange and dialogue with new and former research participants, with other researchers involved in similar research, and with wider academic networks beyond the core disciplines represented here, principally anthropology and geography. Key concluding themes related to the ambivalent nature of ‘faith’, connections over place and time, and the contested nature of community. Implicit in terms like ‘faith’, ‘community’, and ‘life course’ are larger interwoven narratives of space, time, place, corporeality, and emotion. The authors found that understanding how places, communities, and faiths differ and intersect requires an understanding of social relatedness and boundaries
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