Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2023.2220283
Tzu-hsuan Chen, Chiang Ying
ABSTRACT This essay examines how Taiwanese national identity was performed on social media during the postponed Tokyo Olympics 2020. Taiwan achieved its best-ever medal tally, leading to the emergence of a new form of sport nationalism. Athletes' off-field behaviors, including diverse gender expressions, distinguished them not only from their Chinese counterparts but also from previous generations of Taiwanese athletes. Badminton, weightlifting, and table tennis athletes became the “proxy warriors” of Taiwan, showcasing the democratic and diverse nature of Taiwanese society. The Tokyo Olympics, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical tensions, became a battleground for ideologies, with the complex relationships among Taiwan, China, and Japan setting the backdrop for narratives. To depart from traditional research on official national discourses, this essay employs critical discourse analysis (CDA) by examining Facebook content and comments on news reports related to Taiwanese Olympians. This essays argues that Taiwan's cyber civil society has developed a flexible strategy to counter China's aggression on the internet. Taiwanese online mobilization demonstrated self-control, creativity, and adaptability, establishing a unique Taiwanese identity during the Tokyo Olympics in the midst of the pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2023.2222361
A. Ichijo
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Pub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2023.2208039
Alex Barraclough-Brady
ABSTRACT Children’s sense of their own national identities, and knowledge of and attitudes towards other nations develops around five to seven years old. However, no work considers uses of national identities as fictional character behavioural explanations from a psychological perspective, or the role of attribution in explaining behaviours to children. By applying content and discourse analyses, and an adapted version of Kelley’s covariation model of attribution, to children’s television series Octonauts, this study shows that most behaviours were explained through internal attributions, with some dispositional behaviours reproducing national identity stereotypes as explanations for character behaviours.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2023.2214094
Bennes Herzog
ABSTRACT Through an analysis of the Israeli case, this paper explains why states add superfluous provisions that facilitate naturalization processes after military service. The Israeli Citizenship Law states that military service in Israel will confer exemptions from the list of requirements toward naturalization. Amendments in 1987 and 2004 and 35 proposed revisions also link military service with citizenship in Israel. I argue that those provisions were enacted mainly for symbolic reasons. Republicanism is not just a characteristic of a particular polity but a rhetorical trope for politicians in that state. In Israel, politicians wanted to emphasize the importance of republican participation, particularly through military service, as the ultimate sacrifice in constructing national identity.
{"title":"Elevating the significance of military service: Knesset members and republican values","authors":"Bennes Herzog","doi":"10.1080/14608944.2023.2214094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2023.2214094","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Through an analysis of the Israeli case, this paper explains why states add superfluous provisions that facilitate naturalization processes after military service. The Israeli Citizenship Law states that military service in Israel will confer exemptions from the list of requirements toward naturalization. Amendments in 1987 and 2004 and 35 proposed revisions also link military service with citizenship in Israel. I argue that those provisions were enacted mainly for symbolic reasons. Republicanism is not just a characteristic of a particular polity but a rhetorical trope for politicians in that state. In Israel, politicians wanted to emphasize the importance of republican participation, particularly through military service, as the ultimate sacrifice in constructing national identity.","PeriodicalId":45917,"journal":{"name":"NATIONAL IDENTITIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44735871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-21DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2023.2188584
G. Molnár
ABSTRACT Since the coming-to-power of the Fidesz-led collation government, right-wing populism has worked to establish an illiberal democracy and to protect national sovereignty in Hungary. Building an illiberal state has been through, in part, some of the mechanics that are associated with necropolitics. Within this context, the government has deployed strategies, including the use of sport, related infrastructure development and national sporting success, to (re)establish criteria for what they imagine Hungarian citizenship to be within and outside the current geographic borders of the state. This article examines the deployment of sport relating to intersecting narratives around right-wing populism and nationhood.
{"title":"Nationalism and sport intersection in Hungary: building fences, expanding nationhood","authors":"G. Molnár","doi":"10.1080/14608944.2023.2188584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2023.2188584","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since the coming-to-power of the Fidesz-led collation government, right-wing populism has worked to establish an illiberal democracy and to protect national sovereignty in Hungary. Building an illiberal state has been through, in part, some of the mechanics that are associated with necropolitics. Within this context, the government has deployed strategies, including the use of sport, related infrastructure development and national sporting success, to (re)establish criteria for what they imagine Hungarian citizenship to be within and outside the current geographic borders of the state. This article examines the deployment of sport relating to intersecting narratives around right-wing populism and nationhood.","PeriodicalId":45917,"journal":{"name":"NATIONAL IDENTITIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47377250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-03DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2023.2180233
S. Pryke
{"title":"China’s good war. How World War II is shaping a new nationalism","authors":"S. Pryke","doi":"10.1080/14608944.2023.2180233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2023.2180233","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45917,"journal":{"name":"NATIONAL IDENTITIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41983838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2023.2180232
M. Forde
This thoughtful, well researched and carefully edited volume explores nationalism across the former British empire. Based on a 2018 conference in Mainz, Germany, the collection provides a thematically coherent discussion on social practices and cultural representations of postco-lonial nationalism. The book sets out to intervene in theories of nationalism from an explicitly postcolonial perspective with a focus on language, literature, and popular culture, and the authors – most of whom are based in German universities – o ff er careful studies of nationalism as experienced, critiqued, and reproduced by ordinary people, writers, musicians, fi lmmakers and game designers. Through discussions of language use in Nairobi, calypso contests in newly independent Trinidad and Tobago, or story arcs and characters in a popular videogame, the collection gives a rich and nuanced view of how nationalism is lived and shaped in post-colonial societies. This close attention to lived experiences, social practices, everyday acts and representations – postcolonial nationalism ‘ from below ’ , so to speak – is a major contribution and merit of the book.
{"title":"Nationalism and the postcolonial","authors":"M. Forde","doi":"10.1080/14608944.2023.2180232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2023.2180232","url":null,"abstract":"This thoughtful, well researched and carefully edited volume explores nationalism across the former British empire. Based on a 2018 conference in Mainz, Germany, the collection provides a thematically coherent discussion on social practices and cultural representations of postco-lonial nationalism. The book sets out to intervene in theories of nationalism from an explicitly postcolonial perspective with a focus on language, literature, and popular culture, and the authors – most of whom are based in German universities – o ff er careful studies of nationalism as experienced, critiqued, and reproduced by ordinary people, writers, musicians, fi lmmakers and game designers. Through discussions of language use in Nairobi, calypso contests in newly independent Trinidad and Tobago, or story arcs and characters in a popular videogame, the collection gives a rich and nuanced view of how nationalism is lived and shaped in post-colonial societies. This close attention to lived experiences, social practices, everyday acts and representations – postcolonial nationalism ‘ from below ’ , so to speak – is a major contribution and merit of the book.","PeriodicalId":45917,"journal":{"name":"NATIONAL IDENTITIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48330340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-17DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2023.2166912
S. Azim, Muhammad Usman Shakir
ABSTRACT Using an extended constructivist position and the case study of Pukhtuns in Swat, Pakistan, this study outlines the interplay between violent conflict (between Muslim Militants and Pakistani state military) and National identity and its markers. The conflict is peculiar; (1) because of the use of Islam by Muslim militants which is an identity marker for Pakistani national identity and Pukhtun ethnic identity, (2) the case of Swat, an ex-princely state integrated only in 1969 in Pakistan with a history of religious violent mobilizations. Further, as Pakistani state has been facing problems with the process of national integration of its multiple ethnicities, the case of national identity becomes significant to be explored The study argues that the impacts of conflict and violence on national identity are complex and multi-dimensional. National identity is neither lost nor reaffirmed, yet as a result of the violent conflict. The article explores the impacts of violent conflict for religion (Islam), State institutions (military), discourses (of pride, sacrifice, and complains) and national symbols (holidays) as markers of National Identity in Pakistan through a fieldwork in Swat from November 2016 to May 2017 and later in November 2021.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-16DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2023.2180231
Sami Suodenjoki
{"title":"The everyday nationalism of workers. A social history of modern Belgium","authors":"Sami Suodenjoki","doi":"10.1080/14608944.2023.2180231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2023.2180231","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45917,"journal":{"name":"NATIONAL IDENTITIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49608135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2022.2161091
M. Vaczi
ABSTRACT Wedged between Spain and France, the stateless nation of the Basques has a keen sense of national identity. The construction and maintenance of national identities has taken place in both the social and political terrains. At the heart of these constructions lies a deep sense of origins and difference. Basque sport, particularly football, is yet another terrain to situate Basque national identity in alterity. The first division Athletic Bilbao has earned its reputation due to a recruitment strategy they call la filosofía: since the early twentieth century, they have fielded Basque players only. Through constant discussions and decisions about whether a player is ‘Basque’ or ‘Basque enough,’ and what that means, football has greatly contributed to the construction of a national imagery that has revolved around place, political ideology, race and ethnicity, and transnational culture.
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