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Sanghita Sen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • tagore s women heralding the new indian woman a critique of the women s question in the Nationalist Discourse
    2016
    Co-Authors: Sanghita Sen
    Abstract:

    Tagore’s women are distinguished for their radical worldview and actions, successfully heralding the ‘new Indian women’ of modern India. The women’s question that proves crucial not only for the colonial justification of a foreign rule over people who apparently ‘brutally’ treat their women but also for the Nationalist Discourse regarding the sacredness of space that women in India inhabit, gets a new dimension through portrayal of extraordinary women in Tagore’s fictions. His fictional writings foreground images of outstanding women as harbingers of the ‘new era’. Tagore’s strong belief in the potential of woman as the driving principle for meaningful change in the fossilized immobility of a rigid patriarchal society is evident in most of his remarkable female characters such as Chandara, Binodini, Mrinal, Kalyani, Damini, Bimala, Anila, Nandini, Kumudini, and Ela. These characters, projected as the catalyst for social transformation in terms of the woman question, are fervent advocates of women’s rights and caustic critique of social injustices that dehumanize and objectify women in society. This article attempts to explore how such women characters organically contribute, like the blocks of a jigsaw puzzle, to complete Tagore’s imagination of the ‘modern Indian woman’ and critique the Nationalist Discourse on the women’s question in the nineteenth century Bengal.

  • Tagore’s Women Heralding The “New Indian Woman”: A Critique of the Women’s Question in the Nationalist Discourse
    Transcultural Negotiations of Gender, 2015
    Co-Authors: Sanghita Sen
    Abstract:

    Tagore’s women are distinguished for their radical worldview and actions, successfully heralding the ‘new Indian women’ of modern India. The women’s question that proves crucial not only for the colonial justification of a foreign rule over people who apparently ‘brutally’ treat their women but also for the Nationalist Discourse regarding the sacredness of space that women in India inhabit, gets a new dimension through portrayal of extraordinary women in Tagore’s fictions. His fictional writings foreground images of outstanding women as harbingers of the ‘new era’. Tagore’s strong belief in the potential of woman as the driving principle for meaningful change in the fossilized immobility of a rigid patriarchal society is evident in most of his remarkable female characters such as Chandara, Binodini, Mrinal, Kalyani, Damini, Bimala, Anila, Nandini, Kumudini, and Ela. These characters, projected as the catalyst for social transformation in terms of the woman question, are fervent advocates of women’s rights and caustic critique of social injustices that dehumanize and objectify women in society. This article attempts to explore how such women characters organically contribute, like the blocks of a jigsaw puzzle, to complete Tagore’s imagination of the ‘modern Indian woman’ and critique the Nationalist Discourse on the women’s question in the nineteenth century Bengal.

Radu Cinpoes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Nationalism and Identity in Romania: A History of Extreme Politics from the Birth of the State to EU Accession
    2010
    Co-Authors: Radu Cinpoes
    Abstract:

    Preface * Nationalism - Conceptual Framework * Continuity and Discontinuity in the Romanian Nationalist Discourse * Tradition, Context and Transition to Post-Communism * The Greater Romania Party: Background, Competition and Significance * The Party and its Leader * The Decline of the Greater Romania Party * Romania in the EU: The Future of Nationalism * Conclusions

  • Continuity and discontinuity in Nationalist Discourse: the Greater Romania Party in post-1989 Romania
    2006
    Co-Authors: Radu Cinpoes
    Abstract:

    After the collapse of communism in Romania, in December 1989, nationalism played an important role in the development of political life. This thesis proposes an explanation for why this has been the case. I identify the Greater Romania Party as the most representative Nationalist political formation in post-communist Romania and examine it as my case-study. My analysis distinguishes the core aspects of the PRM's ideology and studies how its Discourse is constructed. In doing so, I argue that the success of the party could only be explained by the fact that it employs a Nationalist Discourse that has been consistently and continuously used over a long period of time in Romania. I begin by engaging with the debates about nationalism in order to establish a theoretical framework, which in turn provides my analytical device to examine Romanian Nationalist movements in three different political, social and cultural time frames. I use this analytical tool to identify a set of themes that characterise the Nationalist Discourse in all the periods I examine, and to show that these themes cut across chronological sequence, political purpose and social and cultural contexts. Alongside with the continuity of the Nationalist Discourse across time, I argue that authoritarian tradition and the conditions of the transition from communism in Romania are also factors that contribute to the persistence of Nationalist tendencies in post-1989 Romanian politics. The analysis of the case-study draws on these findings and shows that the same core ideological elements used effectively in the past are exploited again, by the PRM, in yet another context, with the same degree of success. The thesis, therefore, aims to examine the most significant Nationalist party in post-communist Romania, to explain the background in which it operates and to focus on the ideological tools it uses in order to rally the support of the electorate, by mapping out the particular type of Nationalist Discourse, which recurs in different historical political and social circumstances in Romania.

Y. Sygkelos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Chapter Two. The Nationalist Discourse In Domestic Politics
    Nationalism from the Left, 2011
    Co-Authors: Y. Sygkelos
    Abstract:

    This chapter describes the political situation that the BCP had to navigate: the political parties of that time are briefly presented (their position, social composition, membership, support, and ideology, including their own national Discourses which competed with those of the communists, as well as the potential dangers they posed for communist hegemony); the impact of international agreements on Bulgarian politics is examined; communist advantages and disadvantages are discussed; and the tactics the communists used to weaken and marginalise serious rivals are illustrated. This chapter also examines the extensive Nationalist Discourse the communists constructed, recasting and recombining in a syncretic manner central discursive elements from earlier Discourses: a bourgeois Nationalist and a communist one. Finally, the chapter shows how this Nationalist Discourse was used in the elimination of the opposition and in politics concerning the ethnic 'other'.Keywords: BCP; bourgeois Nationalist; Bulgarian politics; Fatherland Front; Nationalist Discourse; Post-war Bulgaria

  • Chapter Three. The Nationalist Discourse With Regard To The International Arena
    Nationalism from the Left, 2011
    Co-Authors: Y. Sygkelos
    Abstract:

    This chapter indicates that nationalism on the international level generated a further set of binary divisions and a clear-cut distinction between friends and enemies, in which certain qualities were attributed to one set of nations and the converse to the other set. If a nation is conceived as part of a certain bloc (insider), it is conceived of sharing qualities with the fellow-nations of that bloc. If a nation is conceived outside that bloc (outsider), it is conceived of being deprived of the qualities of the respective bloc. Insiders were friends, whereas outsiders were enemies; belonging to a bloc meant the rearticulation of national identities at home. The chapter explores the national Discourse of the BCP on the international level. A modified anti-imperialist theory prescribed Bulgaria's membership of the Comintern, which, it was claimed, would ensure Bulgaria's national sovereignty and integrity.Keywords: BCP; binary divisions; Bulgaria; Bulgarian nationalism; Comintern; Nationalist Discourse; socialist bloc

Charles R. Kim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Moral Imperatives: South Korean Studenthood and April 19th
    The Journal of Asian Studies, 2012
    Co-Authors: Charles R. Kim
    Abstract:

    An oft-overlooked part of the Global Sixties, the seminal event of April 19th (1960) set the foundation for South Korea's combative, youth-driven democratization struggles between the years 1960 and 1987. This article turns to the eve of the eight-week protest movement in order to examine the production of students as a nationwide social organization of youths well-versed in Nationalist Discourse and conversant in patriotic practices. Throughout the heady weeks of February, March, and April 1960, youthful protestors drew on elements of this ideological training in an unlikely fashion to employ them in protests against the state. Taking full advantage of the privileged position of students in Nationalist Discourse, the protestors of April 19th cemented the importance of the upright student demonstration in South Korea's emerging postcolonial, Cold War political landscape.

  • Moral Imperatives: South Korean Studenthood and April 19 th
    The Journal of Asian Studies, 2012
    Co-Authors: Charles R. Kim
    Abstract:

    An oft-overlooked part of the Global Sixties, the seminal event of April 19 th (1960) set the foundation for South Korea's combative, youth-driven democratization struggles between the years 1960 and 1987. This article turns to the eve of the eight-week protest movement in order to examine the production of students as a nationwide social organization of youths well-versed in Nationalist Discourse and conversant in patriotic practices. Throughout the heady weeks of February, March, and April 1960, youthful protestors drew on elements of this ideological training in an unlikely fashion to employ them in protests against the state. Taking full advantage of the privileged position of students in Nationalist Discourse, the protestors of April 19 th cemented the importance of the upright student demonstration in South Korea's emerging postcolonial, Cold War political landscape.

Matthew Blackburn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • National identity, Nationalist Discourse and the imagined nation in post-Soviet Russia
    2018
    Co-Authors: Matthew Blackburn
    Abstract:

    This thesis attempts to account for post-Soviet Russian national identity and nationalism ‘from below’, employing the ‘thick descriptions’ of the nation reproduced by ordinary Russians across social and generational lines. It examines the current equilibrium in mainstream Nationalist hegemonic Discourse, shedding light on the vitality of the nation as an ‘imagined community’. In doing this, nationalism is viewed as a set of discursive formations that make claims about how or what the nation is or should be. A central aim in this research is to highlight what discursive constructions are shared or contested across a representative sample of the Russian population. In order to offer a meaningful assessment of Nationalist Discourse, this research employs ethnographic fieldwork driven by a grounded theory approach. With fifteen months of fieldwork in three Russian cities, this permitted room for exploration and siginificant redirection of the research focus. This helped reveal the interconnections between certain common, foundational elements of national identity and the structure of a dominant Nationalist Discourse. Previous research has often focused on the challenges of Russian nation-building given the complicated heritage bestowed by the Romanov and Soviet empires. This thesis identifies certain historical and cultural factors vital to the shaping of Russian national identity today. It also identifies a current hegemonic Nationalist Discourse and unpacks how it is relevant to the majority. This dominant Discourse is built on certain myths and versions of normality, much of which takes the late Soviet as ‘normal’ and the wild nineties as ‘abnormal’. The thesis also explores how the above is contested. What is argued is that, at the current moment, the challenge of anti-hegemonic Nationalist Discourses is, for many people, neutralised by the appeal of a particular geopolitical vision. This research outlines how visions of the nation are weaved into commonly shared notions of identity and underlines how the current status quo is held together.