Essays about: "imagined communities nationalism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words imagined communities nationalism.

1. 1. The Imagined Community of Scotland in the Narratives and Rhetoric of the Scottish National Party from the Independence Referendum to the Brexit Referendum : A Case Study of the Construction of a National Identity Within a Nation Region

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Sofie Barchan; [2022]
   Keywords : Scottish Independence; Scottish Nation; Scottish National Party; Brexit; Nation Building; Political Discourse; Social Constructivism; Nationalism.;

   Abstract : This thesis conducts a case study on how the idea of a Scottish nation and Scottish independence have been constructed and changed within the political discourse produced by the Scottish National Party during the period around the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 and around the Brexit referendum in 2016. This will be done by conducting a textual analysis with a set of operational questions on written material produced by the Scottish National Party during the period of time previoulsy mentioned, based on the theoretical framework of social constructivism and nationalism with a focus on "imagined communities". READ MORE

3. 2. Constructing Modern Ethnic Myth: A Cultural Analysis of the Hanfu Movement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Kehan Li; [2021]
   Keywords : Hanfu; nationalism; clothing; China; Han; social movement; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This ethnographic study investigates the rising Hanfu movement in China. Hanfu, literally means the clothing of Han ethnicity, but it is a newly coined terminology. The movement takes Hanfu as a symbol and aims to redefine the position of Han ethnicity in Chinese society and extend the influence of Chinese culture in the worldwide. READ MORE

4. 3. The 2018 Ghetto Plan: The political problematization of ethnic minorities living in deprived residential areas in Denmark

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Rosa Lucca Brøbech; [2020]
   Keywords : Nationalism; new racism; ethnicity; culture and inclusion exclusion;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the problematization of ethnic minorities living in deprived residential areas in Denmark. The study focus on the whitepaper “Ét Danmark uden parallelsamfund – Ingen ghettoer I 2030” published by the Danish government in 2018. READ MORE

5. 4. National identity in Sonia Nimr’s children’s book Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Tarek Darwich; [2020]
   Keywords : Anderson; National identity; nationalism; Children’s Literature; Palestinian; imagined communities; Sonia Nimr; Wondrous Journey in strange lands; Arab; history; fiction.;

   Abstract : In this thesis, depending on Benedict Anderson’s Studies of nationalism in his book The Imagined Communities, I will prove that in her historical fiction for children, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, the Palestinian writer Sonia Nimr is reviving and reforming Arab national identity. Anderson identifies the nation as a group imagined by its members; the people who perceive and identify themselves as equal members in this group. READ MORE

6. 5. Imagining the Iraqi National Identity Before and After the US Invasion of 2003 : Perception of the Sunni-Arab ethnicity

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap

   Author : Ahmed Kaharevic; [2019]
   Keywords : Iraq 2003; nationalism; Sunni; ethnicity; construction;

   Abstract : This masters thesis analyses how Iraqi national identity is constructed before and after 2003. It explores what relation the national identity has to Sunni-Arab ethnicity. The study is qualitative and uses social constructivism as a methodological outline. Qualitative interviews are done with six Iraqi-Arab-Sunnis living in Sweden. READ MORE