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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
01 Jan 1983-
TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time.
Abstract: What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality - the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation - has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality. Anderson explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was modularly adopted by popular movements in Europe, by the imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa. This revised edition includes two new chapters, one of which discusses the complex role of the colonialist state's mindset in the development of Third World nationalism, while the other analyses the processes by which all over the world, nations came to imagine themselves as old.
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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: Theoretical Landscape Theorizing the New Regionalism Approach The Historical Construction of 'Southern Africa' The Political Economy of Formal and Informal Regionalism Civil Society Regionalism The political economy of Shared River Basins: The Case of the Zambezi The political Economy of Micro-regionalism: The case of the Maputo Development Corridor Conclusion as mentioned in this paper
Abstract: Introduction Reviewing The Theoretical Landscape Theorizing the New Regionalism Approach The Historical Construction of 'Southern Africa' The Political Economy of Formal and Informal Regionalism Civil Society Regionalism The Political Economy of Shared River Basins: The Case of the Zambezi The Political Economy of Micro-regionalism: The Case of the Maputo Development Corridor Conclusion
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TL;DR: The authors analyzed the meaning and function of Donald Trump's discursive strategies on Twitter and found that he uses an informal, direct, and provoking communication style to construct and reinforce the concept of a homogeneous people and a homeland threatened by the dangerous other.
Abstract: This study explores how U.S. President Donald Trump employs Twitter as a strategic instrument of power politics to disseminate his right-wing populist discourse. Applying the discourse-historical approach to critical discourse analysis, this article analyzes the meaning and function of Trump’s discursive strategies on Twitter. The data consists of over 200 tweets collected from his personal account between his inauguration on January 20, 2017 and his first address to Congress on February 28, 2017. The findings show how Trump uses an informal, direct, and provoking communication style to construct and reinforce the concept of a homogeneous people and a homeland threatened by the dangerous other. Moreover, Trump employs positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation to further his agenda via social media. This study demonstrates how his top-down use of Twitter may lead to the normalization of right-wing populist discourses, and thus aims to contribute to the understanding of right-wing populist discourse online.
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TL;DR: This article proposed translanguaging and genre theory as two promising pedagogical responses to education systems characterised by linguistic as well as socio-economic diversity, drawing attention to the agency of teachers in the processes of engaging with the linguistic diversity of students.
Abstract: This paper draws attention to the central concern of authors in this issue, which is to offer translanguaging and genre theory as two promising pedagogical responses to education systems characterised by linguistic as well as socio-economic diversity. It also draws attention to the agency of teachers in the processes of engaging with the linguistic diversity of students. What lies at the heart of current provision of multilingual education in South Africa, the site of concern for most of the authors in this volume, is a systemic failure to engage productively with the linguistic and knowledge repertoires of students. On the one hand, there is misunderstanding of multilingualism in southern contexts and the country's multilingual education policy; on the other hand, there is a reluctance to engage with multilingualism within curriculum and assessment delivery. Translanguaging and genre, although conceptually originating from North Atlantic and Australian contexts, may well offer opportunities for students ...
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TL;DR: The authors argue that learners' sense of membership of an imagined global community and of themselves as users of the language, as opposed to any desire to integrate with a target community, forms the basis of their motivation.
Abstract: This is a theoretical paper that attempts to re-conceptualize language learning motivation by taking into consideration the effects of globalisation on learners' sense of identity and how this impacts on the motivation to learn the unquestioned language of globalisation, English. I will argue that in EFL contexts it is learners' sense of membership of an imagined global community and of themselves as users of the language, as opposed to any desire to integrate with a target community, that forms the basis of their motivation. The paper proposes a model of motivation that places the learner's real identity as a member of an imagined global community, and a clear vision of an ideal language-using self at its core.
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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the "national" of a country's cinematographic production and define a brief Eco-history of France's Cinema Industry from 1895 to 2003.
Abstract: Introduction: Defining the 'National' of a Country's Cinematographic Production 1. A Brief Ecohistory of France's Cinema Industry 1895-2003 2. Magical Moments of Musical Silence: French Cinema's Classical Age 1895-1929 3. From Clarity to Obscurity: French Cinema's Age of Modernism 1930-1958 4. From Ideology to Narcissism: French Cinema's Age of the Postmodern 1958-1991 5. Towards a Multiplicity of Voices: French Cinema's Age of the Postmodern, Part Two 1992-2004
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