Essays about: "ANTHONY D SMITH"

Found 3 essays containing the words ANTHONY D SMITH.

  1. 1. The State of the Nation in Timor-Leste: Understanding the Shape of the Nation through the Perspectives of Timorese Youth

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Rowena Suyat; [2012]
    Keywords : nationalism; nation-building; Timor-Leste; East Timor; ethno-symbolism; identity; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : With the new governing structures created through the transitional administration of the United Nations (UN), old and new fault lines in the past decade have exposed themselves in Timor-Leste: rural-urban divides, generational divides, communal divides, and political divides. This paper utilises Anthony D. READ MORE

  3. 2. Xenophobia in Europe, testing economic interests and national identity

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sofia Karlsson; [2009]
    Keywords : Europe; National identity; ISSP; Competition theory; Xenophobia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In this study I have explored xenophobia in Europe, using cross-national attitudinal survey and regression analysis. Two main theories constitute the theoretical framework, one based on economic conditions and one on group belonging and identity. READ MORE

  4. 3. Anthony D. Smith revisited in light of the relational turn

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Olle Frödin; [2003]
    Keywords : Sociology; Sociologi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The divide between the two major paradigms within the scientific study of nationalism, modernism and ethnosymbolism, has increased recently. A significant theoretical shift in the study of nationalism, the relational turn, has undermined the analytical treatment of nations as substantial entities and postmodernist scholars drawing from the modernist paradigm and the relational approach have rejected the ethnosymbolist school of thought and particularly its leading proponent, Anthony D. READ MORE