If we wanted to carry out an archaeology of border theory, how would we identify its sources and its targets?¹ Where would we locate its multiple sites of production and consumption, formation and ...transformation? What are the multiple discourses producing images of borders almost everywhere, at least in the minds of academics? In trying to answer these questions, though more with an exploratory spirit than with a definitive one, let us say that the sites, the sources, the targets, and the discourses can be variably characterized by the following: previously marginalized intellectuals within the academy(i.e., women and other minorities); the
Le facteur au centre de l'intérêt que l'on continue de porter aux Mau Mau est sa relation paradoxale avec le nationalisme au Kenya. Les deux interprétations dominantes des Mau Mau - culte religieux ...démoniaque et nationalisme militant - étaient toutes deux basées sur les espérances de la théorie de la modernisation concernant le développement inévitable d'états-nations séculaires. Mais elles mettaient en valeur soit respectivement les aspects culturels, soit les aspects matériels du mouvement Mau Mau. On ne peut comprendre ces différences qu'en les reliant aux contextes politiques différents des années 50 et 60. Le concept de Benedict Anderson selon lequel le nationalisme serait une "communauté imaginée" conduit à une meilleure compréhension des Mau Mau comme faisant partie d'un combat sur le sens de l'ethnicité Kikuyu et sa relation problématique avec les divisions internes de classes et les solidarités au niveau national plus large.
Three years before writing “America the Beautiful;” Katharine Lee Bates published a collection of ballads for use in schools.¹ Drawing her epigraph from “The Solitary Reaper” (“The plaintive numbers ...flow …”), she immediately locates her textbook within a Romantic tradition of ballad collection. Less inclined than I have been to draw differences between Wordsworth and Scott, she then quotes Scott’s memory of his first encounter with Percy’s Reliques:
All the morning long he lay reading the book beneath a huge platanus-tree in his aunt’s garden. “The summer day sped onward so fast,” he says, “that notwithstanding the sharp appetite of
Three historical stages in the organization of the firm as well as in its relations to its environment are identified. The discursive and institutional context of private policymaking that has ...developed in Denmark at the local and national level are described. The development of a new institutional environment for private enterprise is presented, and ways in which firms and industries have reorganized are demonstrated. The structural effects of private policymaking are outlined in terms of the decentered firm and in terms of the complex redefinition of the autonomy of business firms in the recoupling of firms to their institutional environment. The institutional principles to which private enterprise is constituted in a negotiated economy are discussed.
CONCLUSION Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
United in Discontent,
11/2009
Book Chapter
Globalization and cosmopolitanism are terms with a certain theoretical and analytical attraction. Their appeal – much like the appeal of the term postmodernism in previous decades – relates to a ...certain extent to their all-encompassing character. To borrow a pertinent notion from Theodossopoulos (2007), all three concepts can be seen as ‘hollow categories’ in the sense that they can be filled with distinct meanings. They are shifting but catchy idioms because they can signify many different things while saying nothing in particular that is necessarily new. This observation concerns, of course, academics and informants alike. For it seems that we all use
A mythology of the idyllic American small town has long permeated American literature, film, and television. Thornton Wilder set his iconic 1938 playOur Townin Grovers Corners, New Hampshire; the ...speech patterns and accents localize the imaginary town in northern New England (Bryan 2004, 36n37).¹ Indeed, New England has provided the iconography for the look we all imagine such a town to have, and so compelling has the small-town set become that we can scarcely sense much difference between the vaguely located Carvel of the Andy Hardy film series (M-G-M, 1937–47) and the quite specifically located village of
We can call the state-sponsored discourse evident in Singapore since 1965 one of responsibility. This discourse has been legitimised by the argument some made that Singapore was too small to defend ...itself, prosper, or govern itself as an independent nation. Even now, as the People’s Action Party remains in power, we find the overriding concern to be as it was initially defined: to create a society capable of meeting the demands of capitalism. To take any responsibility for national survival is therefore to be responsible to the state—a responsibility reified by an orientation toward the dictates of economic pragmatism.
Para Inglês Ver Matory, J. Lorand
Black Atlantic Religion,
02/2009
Book Chapter
Not only ditties, like Pedrito’s, but also clichés reveal social history. The Brazilian expressionpara inglês ver(for the English to see) describes acts of subterfuge and self-camouflage—presenting a ...facade to outsiders and dominant parties who might respond with contempt or punishment if they knew the truth. One story reports that the expression originated during the 19th century, after the British outlawed the maritime slave trade to Brazil in 1830 and slave traders developed means of camouflaging the slave ships to avoid capture by the British navy. The false appearance of an innocent maritime commerce was “for the English
