Reflexivity or orientation? Collective memories in the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand national press
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Q2. What is the meaning of ‘cosmopolitan memory’?
Ryan (2014) highlights that:Cosmopolitan memory as a concept, although excellently delineated, is fraught with the dangers of potential conceptual reductionism, for a lack of precision in defining the exact nature of its relationship with national memory cultures may culminate in its theoretical deployment as an all-encompassing term, which signifies that national memory cultures adopt universal ethical criteria, without an attendant scrutiny of the intricacies of their relationship (2014: 511).
Q3. What was the role of New Zealand in the Olympic Games?
In other instances, both the Diamond Jubilee and Olympic Games provided theopportunity for the former dominions to subjugate their colonial pasts for narratives that emphasised their own national autonomy and identity.
Q4. What was the biggest source of talent for London 2012?
(The Weekend Australian, 11/08/12a)Similarly, Wilson (2012) stated:Britain’s openness to people, trade and ideas also helped London 2012 to do a better job than any other host city by using foreign talent to stage the Games, with the biggest source of that talent being Australia.
Q5. What is the significance of the New Zealand code?
whereas such codes sought to ‘invert’ New Zealand’s colonial past, paradoxically, these codes were ambivalently located alongside New Zealand’s history of Anglo-European migration and the tendency for Pakeha attributes to hold salience in New Zealand’s national mythology (Bell, 1996; Falcous, 2007).
Q6. What is the definition of ‘reflexive modernization’?
Bewes (1997) argues, forms part of Beck’s (1992; Beck et al., 2003) ‘reflexive modernization’, a perspective that is extended in his work on cosmopolitanism, which explores how national cultures have become more ‘open’ to global diversity (Beck, 2006).
Q7. What was the main point of Carney’s reflections?
As can be seen, Carney’s (2012) reflections were laden by the failure for republican debates to gain any substantial support within the former dominions.