21 research outputs found
In search of the authentic nation: landscape and national identity in Canada and Switzerland
While the study of nationalism and national identity has flourished in the last decade, little attention has been devoted to the conditions under which natural environments acquire significance in definitions of nationhood. This article examines the identity-forming role of landscape depictions in two polyethnic nation-states: Canada and Switzerland. Two types of geographical national identity are identified. The first â what we call the ânationalisation of natureââ portrays zarticular landscapes as expressions of national authenticity. The second pattern â what we refer to as the ânaturalisation of the nationââ rests upon a notion of geographical determinism that depicts specific landscapes as forces capable of determining national identity. The authors offer two reasons why the second pattern came to prevail in the cases under consideration: (1) the affinity between wild landscape and the Romantic ideal of pure, rugged nature, and (2) a divergence between the nationalist ideal of ethnic homogeneity and the polyethnic composition of the two societies under consideration
O manuscrito e o iconogråfico em cartÔes-postais belicosos: da apologia cavalheiresca à contestação da Grande Guerra (1914-1918) na França
O trabalho analisa mensagens transmitidas por cartÔes-postais produzidos e circulados na França no contexto da Primeira Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), apresentando temåtica associada ao conflito. O objetivo é contrapor as mensagens iconogråficas e textuais neles impressas àquelas que foram manuscritas por seus remetentes, de modo a evidenciar formas de expressão e percepçÔes do conflito, conforme empregadas por civis e militares, em diferentes momentos de seu desenvolvimento.The paper analyzes messages conveyed by postcards produced and circulated in France during the First World War (1914-1918), with themes referring to the conflict. The intention is to compare the iconographic and textual messages printed with handwritten messages, to display forms of expression and perception of war, used by civilian and military on different occasions
The Sociospatial Mechanics of Domination: Transcending the 'Exclusion/Inclusion' Dualism
This article takes issue with Zygmunt Baumanâs thesis that physical exclusion depends on the hindrance of cognitive associations, emotional quandaries, and moral inhibitions, hence victims and their lot remain out of sight. It is counterargued that conscious engagement in directly physical forms of exclusionary behaviour is possible insofar as victims are known in ways that provoke emotional disdain and moralise violence. Such knowledge consists in the relegation of others to the status of morally lesser human beings, and is produced via prior symbolic mediations. To the extent that mediations operate according to the power differentials they both reflect and help to sustain, there is a need to shift analytical attention from exclusion to the âmeta-categoryâ of domination