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British National Identity and the English Landscape
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Heritage is a messy concept ill-defined, heterogeneous, changeable, chauvinist, and sometimes absurd; it is also more equivocal; as Walter Benjamin put it, every cultural treasure that is a ‘document of civilization is at the same time a document of barbarism'.Abstract:
Heritage is a messy concept ill-defined, heterogeneous, changeable, chauvinist – and sometimes absurd. In a TV programmer's words, just as ‘lifestyle has replaced life, heritage is replacing history'. Rather than ‘history’, Philadelphia's tourist boss now ‘talk[s] about heritage – it sounds more lively’. It is also more equivocal; as Walter Benjamin put it, every cultural treasure that is a ‘document of civilization is at the same time a document of barbarism’. Yet for all its ambiguity, ‘the idea of “Heritage” [is] one of the most powerful imaginative complexes of our time’.read more
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Wind power deployment outcomes: How can we account for the differences?
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The making of English national identity
TL;DR: The Making of English National Identity as discussed by the authors examines the rise of English nationalism and issues of race and ethnicity from earliest times to the present day, and argues that the long history of the English as an imperial people has developed a sense of missionary nationalism which in the interests of unity and empire has necessitated the repression of ordinary expressions of nationalism.
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Materializing post-colonial geographies : examining the textural landscapes of migration in the South Asian home.
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of visual cultures in understanding the value of landscape to post-colonial migrants living in Britain is investigated using a materialist lens, which allows for an examination of their place in the process of ''making home'' for South Asian women in Britain.
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How Societies Remember
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions, and argue that images of the past and recollected knowledge are conveyed and sustained by ritual performances and that performative memory is bodily.
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The Country and the City
TL;DR: As a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city, Williams' highly-acclaimed study reveals the shifting images and associations between these two traditional poles of life throughout the major developmental periods of English culture.
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Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. By E. J. Hobsbawm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 191p. 39.50.
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Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
TL;DR: The transformation of nationalism, 1870-1918, and the apogee of nationalism in the late twentieth century is discussed in this article, where the authors discuss the role of the government perspective in this process.
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Wilderness and the American Mind
TL;DR: Roderick Nash's classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967 The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of "books that changed our world," and it has been called the "Book of Genesis for environmentalists" as discussed by the authors.