Politics Of Nation Building Research Articles

Civilizing Southern Italy: British and Italian women and the cultural politics of European nation building

In the late 1870s and early 1880s, the Englishwoman's Review a feminist periodical, ran a series of articles examining the organization of Neapolitan schools set up by a group of British middle-class women who had been keen supporters of Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Italian national cause. British women's complicated and fascinating relationships to southern Italy as seen through the eyes of the English women writing in this feminist periodical are the ostensible subject of this article. But it also uses their experiences and their going between two cultures and two nations in-the-making to rethink historical approaches to the cultural politics of nation building. British women clearly saw themselves as nation builders and understood that women's positions in society were an important indication of a nation's strength and civilization. Transforming southern Italian women from what English women writing in the Englishwoman's Review identified as their “semi-Oriental mode of life” to a more civilized, dignified, and ordered way of life would help transform the nation, they argued. Along with Italian nationalists, statisticians and northern politicians, British women helped to circulate and participate in the “southern question” that so dominated nationalist attitudes towards the south in the decades following Italian unification.

The Novel and the Politics of Nation Building in East Africa (review)

The Novel and the Politics of Nation Building in East Africa (review)

The Novel and the Politics of Nation Building in East Africa

The Novel and the Politics of Nation Building in East Africa

Australian Federalism: A Prospective Assessment

On 1 January 2001, Australia celebrated the centenary of its federal Constitution. Throughout its history, the Australian federal system has proved both resilient and flexible, serving the Commonwealth through the trials of depression, total war, imperial decline, and economic reconstruction. The constitutional system has been developed through interpretation by the High Court and popular input via referendums, as well as by the ongoing process of intergovernmental relations. There has been an overall expansion of Commonwealth powers with the politics of nation-building, but the states remain significantly powerful although financially dependent on the Commonwealth. Given the institutional and popular success of Australian federalism, the challenges facing the Commonwealth in the new century are not expected to be domestic or constitutional, but strategic and economic: principally, how a smallish middle power should meet the difficulties of globalization and security from a position of relative isolation adjacent to Asia in the southern Pacific. Copyright 2002, Oxford University Press.

The 1995 Rugby World Cup and the politics of nation-building in South Africa

The 1995 Rugby World Cup was held in South Africa just one year after the country's first democratic elections. Throughout the tournament, the importance of competition victory for the South African team — playing under the banner of `One Team, One Nation' and endorsed by President Mandela — was articulated by the team, the local media, politicians and by its supporters in terms of its centrality to the project of nation-building. This discourse dominated all others. What made this articulation of the event all the more remarkable was the historic connection of the game with Afrikaner popular culture and with the political interests of the previous apartheid regime. Drawing on Dyan and Katz's (1992) model of the `media event', the article examines the processes behind this attempt to rearticulate the meaning of `South African rugby' away from narrow, race-specific interests towards those of the newly elected non-racial ANC-led government's nation-building project.

Whose Bosnia? The Politics of Nation Building

Essay| March 01 1998 Whose Bosnia? The Politics of Nation Building Lenard J. Cohen Lenard J. Cohen Lenard J. Cohen is a professor of political science at Simon Fraser University in Canada. His most recent book is Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia’s Disintegration and Balkan Politics in Transition (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1995). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1998) 97 (617): 103–112. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1998.97.617.103 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lenard J. Cohen; Whose Bosnia? The Politics of Nation Building. Current History 1 March 1998; 97 (617): 103–112. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1998.97.617.103 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCurrent History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1998 by The Regents of the University of California1998 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore. By Michael Hill and Lian Kwen Fee. London: Routledge, 1995, x, 285 pp. $14.99 (paper).

The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore. By Michael Hill and Lian Kwen Fee. London: Routledge, 1995, x, 285 pp. $14.99 (paper).

Book Reviews: BENG-HUAT CHUA, Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore. London: Routledge, 1995, 237pp. MICHAEL HILL AND LIAN KWEN FEE, The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore. London: Routledge, 1995, 285pp

Book Reviews: BENG-HUAT CHUA, Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore. London: Routledge, 1995, 237pp. MICHAEL HILL AND LIAN KWEN FEE, The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore. London: Routledge, 1995, 285pp

The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore. By Michael Hill and Lian Kwen Fee. London: Routledge, 1995. Pp. x, 285. Bibliography, Index.

The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore. By Michael Hill and Lian Kwen Fee. London: Routledge, 1995. Pp. x, 285. Bibliography, Index.

Nationalism and History: The Politics of Nation Building in Post-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and GeorgiaDonald B. Schwartz and Razmik Panossian, eds. Toronto: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, pp. xiv, 149

Nationalism and History: The Politics of Nation Building in Post-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and GeorgiaDonald B. Schwartz and Razmik Panossian, eds. Toronto: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, pp. xiv, 149 - Volume 29 Issue 2

Book Reviews : Michael HILL and LIAN Kwen Fee, The Politics of Nation Building and Citizen ship in Singapore. London/New York: Routledge 1995. 285 pp., with bibliography and index. ISBN: 0-415-10052-6 (hc), 0-415-12025-x (pbk). Price: £14.99 (pbk)

Book Reviews : Michael HILL and LIAN Kwen Fee, The Politics of Nation Building and Citizen ship in Singapore. London/New York: Routledge 1995. 285 pp., with bibliography and index. ISBN: 0-415-10052-6 (hc), 0-415-12025-x (pbk). Price: £14.99 (pbk)

Nationalism and History: The Politics of Nation Building in Post-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Eds. Donald V. Schwartz and Razmik Panossian. Toronto: University of Toronto Center for Russian and East European Studies, 1994. Map. 149 pp.

Nationalism and History: The Politics of Nation Building in Post-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Eds. Donald V. Schwartz and Razmik Panossian. Toronto: University of Toronto Center for Russian and East European Studies, 1994. Map. 149 pp.