A pesar de la legitimación cívica de los Estados constitucionales, la población sigue reproduciendo las identidades de una nación cultural. El enfoque unilateral sobre la legitimidad jurídica de los ...Estados modernos obvia su anclaje en una identidad cultural particular. De ese modo, no se cumplen las premisas universalistas del Estado racional, ya que nos encontramos con una implícita aceptación de la nación cultural. Frente a ello, la reflexión hegeliano sobre las premisas culturales de Herder indica hacia a una posible salida de este dilema. Hegel sitúa su Estado en un concepto dinámica de sociedad que posibilita anclar el Estado racional en la diversidad cultural de la población.
In recent years, there is growing interest in the study of cross-national policy convergence. Yet we still have a limited understanding of the phenomenon: Do we observe convergence of policies at ...all? Under which conditions can we expect that domestic policies converge or rather develop further apart? In this article, we address this research deficit. From a theoretical perspective, we concentrate on the explanatory power of three factors, namely international harmonization, transnational communication, and regulatory competition. In empirical terms, we analyze if and to what extent we can observe convergence of environmental policies across twenty-four industrialized countries between 1970 and 2000. We find an impressive degree of environmental policy convergence between the countries under investigation. This development is mainly caused by international harmonization and, to a considerable degree, also by transnational communication, whereas regulatory competition does not seem to play a role.
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Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart, by Andreas Wimmer, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018, 376p. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780691177380, $27.95 (paper ...back), ISBN 9780691202945.
What makes resources political? We often imagine that politics is something done to resources (i.e. larger contestations over access to and control over resources). In this second “progress report”, ...I question whether resource politics is simply about fighting over stuff. How does the materiality of resources themselves shape broader conceptions of “the political” in general? I highlight the role of resources in shaping three central meanings of the political or politics. First, the commonsense ideology of politics as electoral contests over political power. Second, the state – as the sphere of “the political” – is constructed as a geographical entity based on a specific form of territoriality. Third, the nation-state reflects a complex political duality: both an institutional state apparatus and a cultural imaginary of shared nationhood. I conclude with some thoughts on the need to expand the terrain of the political in resource geography.
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This paper analyses the temporal, spatial and structural linkages between the informal economic enterprises (IEEs) that have grown and spread in Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and ...their formal economic counterparts, as well as the impact of the IEEs on the shaping and restructuring of the urban economy. To achieve this, the paper deployed a mixed methods approach which utilised survey and phenomenological case studies on the formal and informal economic enterprises in Bulawayo. The results of this study highlight the linkages between the informal and formal economic enterprises and the impact of political and economic ideology on such linkages, illustrating the spatial layering and patterning of both formal economic enterprises and IEEs in Bulawayo. The main contribution of this paper is its exposition of the impact of political and economic policies of the Zimbabwean nation-state on urban economic enterprises.
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A review essay covering books by 1) M. Amoah, The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa (2019), 2) N. Wane and F.A. Akena (Eds.), HIstorical and Contemporary Pan-Africanism and ...the Quest for African Renaissance (2019), 3) O. Abegunrin and S.O. Abidde (Eds.), Pan-Africanism in Modern Times: Challenges, Concerns and Constraints (2016) and 4) H. Adi, Pan-Africanism: A History (2018).
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Die Identitätsbildung des heutigen Belgiens ist durch ein komplexes Zusammenspiel von Regionen, Gemeinschaften und Nation geprägt. Anhand ausgewählter Erinnerungsorte untersucht der Band diese ...Prozesse, wobei das Interesse vor allem der unterschiedlichen Nutzung desselben Erinnerungsortes auf verschiedenen Ebenen des Gemeinschaftsbewusstseins gilt. Im Zentrum steht die sich im Laufe der Zeit verändernde Rolle, die bestimmte Personen im kollektiven Gedächtnis einzelner Orte, Regionen oder der belgischen Nation spielten - von Jacob van Artevelde über Peter Paul Rubens, den Prince de Ligne et Beloeil bis zu Georges Simenon und anderen. In der Zusammenschau ergibt sich so eine bisher kaum betrachtete Perspektive auf das Land und seine Geschichte.
Western struggles-and failures-to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they ...make the lives of their intended beneficiaries better or worse. In this groundbreaking book, Oliver Richmond asks why statebuilding has been so hard to achieve, and argues that a large part of the problem has been Westerners' failure to understand or engage with what local peoples actually want and need. He interrogates the liberal peacebuilding industry, asking what it assumes, what it is getting wrong, and how it could be more effective.
This article offers a theoretical intervention in new and emergent approaches to analysing China's coercive nation-building policies under Xi Jinping. The author contends that the recent Western ...framing of CCP policies as genocidal or necropolitical, predicated on notions of settler colonialism and indigeneity, not only strips minority nationalities of their political agency but also prevents them from pursuing anti-colonial self-determination. By delving into the extensive scholarly work within Chinese anthropology, history, and philosophy that contributes to the reconstruction of a retrotopian Chinese nation with non-Han minority groups at its core, this article argues that the ongoing effort to build a revitalised Chinese national community requires more than merely overcoming obstacles related to minority cultures and identities. It entails actively reimagining the role and participation of minorities in 'self-sacrifice' for the Chinese national community, implying their voluntary relinquishment of identities and rights in order to align with the Chinese nation.
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This article recovers the training and early career of Barbara Mary Beck "Conchita Triana" (1912-2006), the first professional flamenco dancer in Canada, whose professional career spanned from 1938 ...into the late 1950s. This recovery entails an exploration of archival records, analysis of the role of Spain for modernist Canadian artists across disciplines, performance histories of Canadian, American, and Spanish artists, and close reading of archival dance notation. Together, these contexts allow us to analyze the construction and emergence of a Canadian settler identity in the 1930s alongside a home-grown Canadian flamenco dance. Performance of an ostensible exotic import - on the stage and through the appropriation of Spanish identity - reinforces the legitimacy of white settler identity through the "mosaic" metaphor that dominates 1920s and 1930s conceptualization of Canada, positioning itself for the first time as a nation distinct from Britain. Spanish cultural performance as a tool to explore Canadian settler identity remains relevant today, as Canadian flamenco artists continue to interrogate their own national identities through the artform.
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