Showing papers in "Journal of The Society for The Anthropology of Europe in 2006"
TL;DR: Hardt and Negri as discussed by the authors present a history of war and democracy in the age of empire, with a focus on the role of women and women in the process of war.
Abstract: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. 2004. New York. Penguin Books. 448 pages. ISBN: 0143035592 (paper).
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TL;DR: Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe: Evidence from the Euromosaic Project as discussed by the authors, is a case study of the role of language diversity in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
Abstract: Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe: Evidence from the Euromosaic Project. Glynn Williams. Palgrave Macmillian: New York. 2005. 251 pages. ISBN: 1403998167 (paper).
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the case of the decline in sense of community among the inhabitants of Lehonia, Greece to illustrate how even face-to-face community must be imagined by its members and the way in which class divisions were able to contribute to shared local identity.
Abstract: The moral and social unity of a community is not a natural association to place, but depends on the ways people frame their loyalties to place and other people, and what they imagine unites them. Benedict Anderson called the nation an imagined community. We might also call the community an imagined community. In this paper I use the case of the decline in sense of community among the inhabitants of Lehonia, Greece to illustrate how even face-to-face community must be imagined by its members and the way in which class divisions were able to contribute to shared local identity. Prosperity based on highly productive land and access to markets supported not only a local class system which bound together Lehonia's owners and workers, but also their sense of community. I argue that prosperity and progressiveness were integral to shared identity among those inhabitants who were members of the community. Declining returns from agriculture precipitated a decline in the salience of community in the lives of residents, and a failure of their ability to imagine themselves as a community.
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TL;DR: The authors examined the state of the field of Russian and East European area studies by bringing student perspectives into dialogue with leading scholarly perspectives on the direction of area studies and argued that the collapse of communism and increasing globalization do not necessitate the elimination of local area studies, instead, area studies helps to contextualize the shared histories and experiences of neighboring states as well as local particularities within increasing integration of Europe.
Abstract: The authors examine the state of the field of Russian and East European area studies by bringing student perspectives into dialogue with leading scholarly perspectives on the direction of area studies. They argue that the collapse of communism and increasing globalization do not necessitate the elimination of area studies. Instead, area studies helps to contextualize the shared histories and experiences of neighboring states as well as local particularities within the increasing integration of Europe.
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TL;DR: Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe: Evidence from the Euromosaic Project as mentioned in this paper, is a case study of the role of language diversity in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
Abstract: Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe: Evidence from the Euromosaic Project. Glynn Williams. Palgrave Macmillian: New York. 2005. 251 pages. ISBN: 1403998167 (paper).
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