18 research outputs found
Langzeitergebnisse nach Pemberton-Osteotomie und DVO bei der Behandlung persistierender Hüftdysplasien im Kindesalter
Silica-scaled Chrysophyceae (Mallomonadaceae and Paraphysomonadaceae) from New Zealand freshwaters
Sur la signification du «capital social transnational»: les territoires frontaliers sont-ils des laboratoires de l’intégration sociale en Europe?
Mediating Cosmopolitanism: Crafting an Allegorical Imperative through Beijing 2008
The article examines intertwined cosmopolitan and national narratives in the context of the Beijing 2008 Games. Through a discursive analysis of the opening and closing ceremonies it seeks to provide some insight into understandings of Chinese national identity as a ‘displaced’ agent in the ‘birth’ and ‘evolution’ of Western European civilisation, who returns to claim a central place in human history. The artistic production of such resentful discourses develops alongside its technological counterpart, providing insight into the ways national citizenships remain gendered and racialised. For activist networks and the critics of the Olympic project this ‘mediated’ cosmopolitanism harbours a performative contradiction, as it sanctions Chinese policies that erase certain social identities from the nation-state. The multicultural ambiance of the Olympic mega-event symbolically resolves the crisis generated by the calls for national development through careful urban planning that violates human rights. An interdisciplinary analysis of the two ceremonies and secondary material suggests that national self-narration takes place simultaneously in different expressive/visual modes, enabling the coexistence (and communication) of the ‘symbolic’ with the ‘material’ in what I will term an ‘allegorical imperative’. This imperative, a miniature of the Olympic discourse on human dignity, is constitutive of the anthropopoetic project