Browsing by Subject "nationalism"
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Concepts of Folk in Nineteenth-Century Swedish Art Music
(2018)Art music and folk music are all too often perceived as opposing concepts. The educated, elite practitioners of a notated art seem to have little in common with musically illiterate commoners who weave an oral tradition. ... -
Confronting the 'Post-Conflict’ Label: An Exploration of Ethno-Sectarian Identity in Northern Ireland and Cyprus
(2016-04-27)Ghosts of conflict haunt many societies around the world. In those that remain divided, sectarian sentiment governs societal norms and structures. Assigning the 'post-conflict' label to these societies marginalizes the need ... -
Crafting an Egyptian Evangelicalism: Revolution, Revival, and Reform
(2020)This dissertation research explores the practices and aspirations to national belonging among Evangelical Egyptians, converts to a distinctively Euro-American form of Protestant Christianity through the proselytizing efforts ... -
Global Sport, Territorial Ambition: How Professional Soccer Remade Turkey
(2020)Based on fieldwork in Bursa and archival research, this dissertation investigates the historical interplay between professional soccer, nationalism, and globalization in Turkey. The dissertation makes the case that the globalized ... -
Imagined communities of fandom: sport, spectatorship, meaning and alienation in late capitalism
(Sport in Society, 2020-01-01)© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article accounts for the allure of sports spectatorship in late capitalism by theorizing spectatorial communities as imagined communities. Building ... -
Modernization, Inequality, and Ethnic Civil Conflicts
(2021)Recent studies have revealed that the inequality between different ethnic groups can better explain and predict the onset of ethnic civil conflicts than traditional inequality indicators do. Based on their findings, this ... -
Peace through Stadium: Olympic Games, Nationalism, and Civil War
(2017)Although the previous literature has extensively debated the role of nationalism in civil conflicts, few studies have addressed how different types of nationalism might affect the occurrence of civil conflicts. In this study, ... -
Politics and Poetics of the Novel: Using Domesticity to Create the Nation
(2016-06-06)This thesis examines how the depiction of the family during war reinforces or challenges societal values in three nineteenth-century novels. The primary focus lies in three novels by Sir Walter Scott, Leo Tolstoy, and Harriet ... -
The Moon is Rounder on the Other Side: Foreign Vloggers and Chinese Nationalism
(2023)This paper seeks to explain the phenomena of popular foreign vloggers in domestic Chinese media by using existing theories in propaganda, nationalism, and social identity theory. Selecting six videos from domestic Chinese ... -
Visualizing the Fractured Nation: Narratives of (Un)belonging in 21st-century Indian and South Korean Media
(2020)This thesis examines popular Indian and South Korean film and television media which depicts the nation in the context of postcolonial division. Specifically, it looks closely at portrayals of anti-colonial struggle and ...
