Home Rule

Home Rule
Author: Nandita Sharma
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2020-02-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 147800245X

In Home Rule Nandita Sharma traces the historical formation and political separation of Natives and Migrants from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize the portrayal of Migrants as “colonial invaders.” The imperial-state category of Native, initially a mark of colonized status, has been revitalized in what Sharma terms the Postcolonial New World Order of nation-states. Under postcolonial rule, claims to autochthony—being the Native “people of a place”—are mobilized to define true national belonging. Consequently, Migrants—the quintessential “people out of place”—increasingly face exclusion, expulsion, or even extermination. This turn to autochthony has led to a hardening of nationalism(s). Criteria for political membership have shrunk, immigration controls have intensified, all while practices of expropriation and exploitation have expanded. Such politics exemplify the postcolonial politics of national sovereignty, a politics that Sharma sees as containing our dreams of decolonization. Home Rule rejects nationalisms and calls for the dissolution of the ruling categories of Native and Migrant so we can build a common, worldly place where our fundamental liberty to stay and move is realized.

The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975

The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975
Author: Tuong Vu
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2020-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501745158

Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and artists, The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975, presents us with an interpretation of "South Vietnam" as a passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary Vietnamese, rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the United States government. The moving and honest memoirs collected, translated, and edited here by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear describe the experiences of war, politics, and everyday life for people from many walks of life during the fraught years of Vietnam's Second Republic, leading up to and encompassing what Americans generally call the "Vietnam War." The voices gift the reader a sense of the authors' experiences in the Republic and their ideas about the nation during that time. The light and careful editing hand of Vu and Fear reveals that far from a Cold War proxy struggle, the conflict in Vietnam featured a true ideological divide between the communist North and the non-communist South.

Irish adventures in nation-building

Irish adventures in nation-building
Author: Bryan Fanning
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2016-06-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 152610928X

Irish Adventures in Nation-building consists of eighteen mostly-chronological essays examining the debates and processes that have shaped the modernisation of Ireland since the beginning of the twentieth century. The vantage points examined include those of prominent revolutionaries, cultural nationalists, clerics, economists, sociologists, political scientists, public intellectuals, journalists, influential civil servants, political leaders and activists who weighed into debates about the condition of Ireland and where it was going. Topics considered range from why Patrick Pearse's ideas about education were ignored to why Ireland has been recently so open to large-scale immigration, from the intellectual conflicts of the 1930s to the future of Irish identity. This is a genuinely multi-disciplinary book that offers an accessible overview of how Ireland and what it means to be Irish has changed during the last century.

Education, Curriculum and Nation-Building

Education, Curriculum and Nation-Building
Author: Daniel Tröhler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2023-04-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000863891

Contributing to interdisciplinary discussions on nationalism, the book explores how educational systems and practices contribute to the phenomena of nationalism and nation-building. Using nine comparative case studies from four continents, the book elaborates a theoretical understanding of nationalism from the perspectives of comparative education research. It integrates the theme of nation, nation-building and nationalism and its involvement with issues of education. It explores the theoretical scope of concepts such as national identities, national literacies, or "doing" nation. The book revives the idea that nation should be the starting point of comparative research and contributes to the theoretically reflective integration of nationalism research into education research. This timely book will be highly relevant for researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of comparative education, international education, education policy, and curriculum studies.

Symposium on Methods of Testing Building Constructions

Symposium on Methods of Testing Building Constructions
Author: Symposium on Methods of Testing Building Constructions. 1960, Washington, DC.
Publisher: ASTM International
Total Pages: 139
Release: 1962
Genre: Buildings
ISBN:

State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe

State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe
Author: Stein Rokkan
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198280327

Stein Rokkan was one of the leading social scientists of the post-war world. He was a prolific writer, yet nowhere is his contribution to social science - the conceptual and developmental map of Europe - presented in an integrated and systematic way. Stein Rokkan had plans to do this butdied before the work could be started. Drawing on Rokkan's published, unpublished, and translated writings, this book systematizes and integrates Rokkan's numerous writings in the way he wanted to do himself.

Napoleon

Napoleon
Author: Munro Price
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199934673

Price analyzes the political, military, and diplomatic events of the period, from Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812 to the multiple failed attempts by Austria to broker peace. He illuminates the dynamic relationships between Napoleon and the wily Austrian foreign minister Metternich, whose desire for equilibrium within the European states system clashed with Napoleon's unshakeable belief in hegemony and subjection-and the charming and enigmatic Alexander I of Russia. And he explores the lasting impact of the bloody Terror of the French Revolution on Napoleon's decisions once he came to power. Rejecting the assumption that defeat was unavoidable, Price considers instead why Napoleon failed to explore a compromise peace that could have allowed him to keep his crown, arguing that the answer to this question has powerful implications for our understanding of the Napoleonic wars.

The Policy Impact of Universities in Developing Regions

The Policy Impact of Universities in Developing Regions
Author: Frederick A. Lazin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1988-06-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 134908879X

An examination of the role of universities in developing regions. The themes include the development role of a university in peripheral regions as diverse as northern Sweden and southern Israel, and the role of universities in training professional administrators and doctors.