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ID:   073146


(En)Gendering the war on terror: war stories and camouflaged politics / Hunt, Krista (ed); Rygiel, Kim (ed) 2006  Book
Hunt, Krista Book
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Publication Hampshire, Ashgate, 2006.
Description xvi, 234p.hbk
Standard Number 0754644812
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051501973.931/HUN 051501MainOn ShelfGeneral 
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ID:   189251


(Re)producing the ‘history problem: memory, identity and the Japan-South Korea trade dispute / Deacon, Chris   Journal Article
Deacon, Chris Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Japan-South Korea relations have consistently been presented by International Relations scholars as a puzzle that confounds mainstream rationalist theories, which struggle to explain the consistent acrimony associated with the so-called ‘history problem’. While many scholars have, therefore, adopted conventional constructivist approaches to incorporate history into their analyses, such literature often neglects the processes of (re)construction of this social reality, thereby implicitly treating these negative sentiments as essentialised elements of Korean and Japanese culture/identity which cause certain foreign policies. Using the recent Japan-South Korea trade dispute as a case study, this article instead draws on critical constructivist/poststructuralist theory and discourse analytical methods to examine how the ‘history problem’ is produced and reproduced. It argues that dominant discourses of remembering in South Korea, which represent Japan as an unrepentant colonial aggressor, and of forgetting in Japan, which represent South Korea as emotional and irrational for dwelling on the past, act to (re)produce identities that clash in their attitudes to difficult history. While such foreign policy practices (re)produce dominant national identities, these identities also shape the bounds of which foreign policies are legitimate or imaginable. This mutually constitutive relationship between identity and foreign policy continually reproduces the ‘history problem’ in Japan-South Korea relations.
Key Words Japan  South Korea  Identity  Memory  Discourse  History Problem 
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ID:   152492


‘Don’t discriminate against minority nationalities: practicing Tibetan ethnicity on social media / Grant, Andrew   Journal Article
Grant, Andrew Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Through an analysis of popular posts Tibetans shared over the social media application WeChat in 2013 and 2014 and offline discussions about them, this paper shows how Tibetans living in and traveling through Xining City practiced and performed their ethnic identity in the face of perceived harassment. Through their viral posts, they created a cyber-community that contributed to Tibetan ethnic group formation when Tibetans interpreted their ethnic identity as the basis for unjust treatment by the Chinese state and private Han individuals. In online posts the Han are portrayed as harassing Tibetans after terror attacks across China, violating minzu rights, denigrating Tibetan culture and territory, and denying Tibetans equal footing as modern compatriots. Social media are changing the ‘representational politics’ of Tibetan ethnicity, altering participation in the representation of the Tibetan ethnic group. Still, online discourse remains subject to constraints; private offline discussions remain important fora of opinion exchange.
Key Words Ethnicity  China  Tibet  Identity  Social Media 
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ID:   146126


‘Mundele, it is because of you’ history, identity and the meaning of democracy in the Congo / Goede, Meike J De   Journal Article
Goede, Meike J De Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Since the signing of the Sun City peace agreement in 2002, the Democratic Republic of Congo has strived to democratise with limited success. This paper explores some of the challenges of the process of democratisation in the Congo. It does so not by looking at democratisation policies and practices, but by focusing on identity construction and how these identities manifest themselves in Congolese engagements with the process of democratisation as a process that is pursued in partnership with Western donors. The paper traces the construction of an understanding of democracy as a means to make an end to perpetual victimisation of Congolese people due to foreign interference in the Congo. The paper argues that the concept of democracy has acquired over time a meaning that creates a highly ambivalent engagement with the current democratisation process, and in particular with Western donors of this process, which are simultaneously perceived as the main obstacles to its successful realisation.
Key Words Identity  Congo  Mundele  Meaning of Democracy 
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ID:   138934


3rd May, a photograph: identities of and beyond displacement / West , Tamara   Article
West , Tamara Article
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Summary/Abstract This article proceeds from a photograph. It does so to begin an investigation of the diverse sites within and beyond it, and the reflections of several enactments of nation, culture, belonging and non-belonging. The image in question depicts a group of children waving flags. It is an old photograph, possibly removed from our ‘present’, though it holds within it multi-temporal spaces into which we might enter. The aim of this article is to do just that – to enter the image, armed with all the things a researcher gathers in terms of background data, narratives and contexts, and examine the complex negotiations enacted within and beyond it. How does this group of flag-waving children impact on us today? This article explores the extent to which an understanding of a temporal enactment of nation in displacement might reflect on contemporary negotiations of citizenship, culture and representation.
Key Words Citizenship  Identity  Photography  Memory  Displacement  Nation 
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40 years of Bangladesh independence: threats against its identity continue / Chaudhury, Dipanjan Roy   Journal Article
Chaudhury, Dipanjan Roy Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
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50 shades of hacking: How IT and cybersecurity industry actors perceive good, bad, and former hackers / Tanczer, Leonie Maria   Journal Article
Tanczer, Leonie Maria Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract The hacker is the epitome of a cybersecurity threat and the embodied misuse of the Internet. However, in recent years, notions of hacking have begun to change. Blurred boundaries mark the term, best expressed in its overlap with “security researcher.” This article draws on a 3.5-year research project on the hacker community and applies an international political sociology framework to uncover routines of rationalization. Interviews with IT and cybersecurity industry experts expose accepted identities, practices, and behaviors of hackers, which allows for the construction of in-group and out-group members in the IT and cybersecurity field. Additionally, the empirical findings are used to propose a conceptual framework (the Möbius strip) to situate the moral valence of hackers on a flexible model. Thus, the article provides insight into the ontological and normative complexities that define the study of hackers, as well as the perception of IT and cybersecurity professionals.
Key Words Industry  Identity  Hacking  Cybersecurity  Hacker  Security Researcher 
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ID:   140683


Abe effect” in Northeast Asia: the interplay of security, economy, and identity / Sohn, Yul   Article
Sohn, Yul Article
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Summary/Abstract IN DECEMBER 2012 ABE SHINZO RETURNED TO POWER AFTER FIVE years in the political wilderness. Since taking office he has solidified his political leadership by winning all successive elections, paving the way to becoming one of the longest tenured premiers in postwar Japan. His security and foreign policies have already changed the landscape of international relations in East Asia as Tokyo’s relations with Seoul and Beijing spiraled down to new lows for the post–Cold War era. Abe’s new security policy, under the slogan “Proactive Contribution to Peace,” helped bring the Japan-US alliance to an unprecedented level of closeness, clearly pitted against China. The Abe government is also potentially challenging the China-centered new economic order by promoting the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade network. Abe’s decision to enter the TPP talks became a game changer in the race for free trade agreements in Asia and the Pacific.
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Adjacent identities in Northeast India / McDuie-Ra, Duncan   Article
McDuie-Ra, Duncan Article
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Summary/Abstract In this article I explore the emergence, or re-emergence, of what I refer to as adjacent identities in response to changing circumstances for many Northeast communities in the last decade. In this paper I argue that it is important to consider seriously the ways in which communities in the region respond to the material and ideational changes to their lives in the present conjuncture by exploring adjacent ways of constructing identity in the face of, but not necessarily directly caused by, changing social, political, and economic circumstances. Massive investment in connectivity, which has transformed the Northeast from a frontier into a corridor, rapid urbanisation in the region, and an increase in migration out of the region have intensified the encounters between communities from the region and so-called ‘mainstream’ India and have brought different ethnic communities into closer daily proximity in the plural urban spaces of the region. The purpose of this article is to recognise adjacent ways of constructing identity in the face of, but not necessarily directly caused by, changing social, political, and economic circumstances. I provide two examples, shared Northeast identity in response to racism and broader ethnic inclusion based on shared cosmopolitanism. The former is a mass category in which virtually anyone from the Northeast can slip into, whereas the second relates specifically to speakers of a common language divided by international and internal borders.
Key Words Change  Identity  Northeast India 
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ID:   099794


Affective production of others: United States policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Leep, Matthew Coen   Journal Article
Leep, Matthew Coen Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
Summary/Abstract IR scholars have recently turned to emotions to understand and explain events in world politics. Although this turn is appealing, most scholars have failed to critically examine the relationships between emotion, language, identity and foreign policy. This article aims to unpack these relationships. Drawing upon Sara Ahmed's notion of the 'emotionality of texts', this article explores how foreign policy may be an affective practice, which can be defined as a ritualized practice of discursively binding emotions to Others' identities and legitimating foreign policy through a discursive logic of feeling. In this way, identities are produced and policies are legitimated affectively. Neglecting the emotional narratives that constitute Self/Other relations leads to an insufficient understanding of emotion in global politics, an incomplete understanding of how identities emerge and matter as they do, and forecloses new alternatives of apprehending transformative ruptures and enduring patterns of Self/Other interaction. Through an analysis of United States policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this article highlights the importance of emotion and affective practices in world politics.
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ID:   187444


After Hyderabad’s 1948 annexation: Muslim belonging and histories of the long partition / Waheed, Sarah   Journal Article
Waheed, Sarah Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This paper revisits the violent annexation of the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad by the Indian army in 1948 as an inaugural moment of dispossession to reconstruct Hyderabad's twentieth century past along the axes of Muslim belonging and memory. I argue that we must situate twentieth and twenty-first century Hyderabadi Muslim migration in relation to Partition-related displacements and attempts to overcome them through economic conditions provided by migration. The partition of India prompted waves of migration—such as the later migration of Hyderabadi Muslims to the Persian Gulf in the wake of 1970s oil boom—and their sense of displacement persisted long past the mid-twentieth century, reshaping Muslim notions of belonging. The use of the nation-state as the dominant framework to analyze these shifts is insufficient for understanding Hyderabadi Muslims' sense of belonging and citizenship, which must be also contextualized in terms of upward class mobility along the axes of global and local contexts.
Key Words Migration  Nationalism  Partition  Muslims  Identity  Hyderabad 
Belonging 
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ID:   106361


Ajeg Bali discourse: globalisation, fear and othering - online / Tamatea, Laurence   Journal Article
Tamatea, Laurence Journal Article
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Publication 2011.
Summary/Abstract This article explores the Ajeg Bali movement in Bali, Indonesia, as manifest online. It is argued that in addition to Ajeg Bali comprising local politics of decentralisation, it is a manifestation of the globally mobile culture of fear. Analysis of online Ajeg Bali discourse shows the deployment of discourses of fear as a response to intensified hybridising incursions into the Balinese nation-space, resulting from the increased mobility of ideas, images, capital, people and technology.
Key Words Globalisation  Fear  Identity  Exclusion  Bali  Ajeg Bali 
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ID:   118931


Alternative scenarii for Asia: fusion and innovation or copycat and snakes and ladders / Inayatullah, Sohail   Journal Article
Inayatullah, Sohail Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Key Words Energy  Education  Poverty  China  India  Governance 
Identity  Hindu  Islamic  Global Financial Crisis  Buddhist  Confucian 
Taoist  Cultural and Economic Models  Asian Civilisations  Culture Heritage 
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ID:   091966


Ambivalent attitudes of the Siamese elite towards the West duri / Chonchirdsin, Sud   Journal Article
Chonchirdsin, Sud Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract Increasing and intensified political and cultural contact with the West during the colonial era constituted a serious concern for the Siamese elite. On the one hand, the kingdom needed to be modernized with Western-style knowledge and technology in order to survive. On the other hand, adopting Western civilization would lead to the loss of Siamese identity, which the elite wished to retain. They needed to select carefully which knowledge and culture from the West they considered to be 'civilized' and not harmful to their identity and political stability.
Key Words Civilization  Identity  West  Ambivalence  Siamese Elite  King Chulalongkorn 
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ID:   077215


Amerasian Problem: blood, duty, and race / Gage, Sue-Je Lee   Journal Article
Gage, Sue-Je Lee Journal Article
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Publication 2007.
Summary/Abstract The concept of 'mixed blood' is not a new one; however, it was not until 1982 that an unprecedented policy entitled 'The Amerasian Act' was created by the US government. Focusing on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in South Korea and the US, this article will unpack the assumptions underlying the seemingly religious statement 'the American thing to do' in terms of US policy, where ostensibly scientific notions of 'race', blood and identity are employed
Key Words Media  NGOs  Immigration  Race  Identity  Policy 
Amerasian  International Relations - Case Studies 
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ID:   169033


Analysis on Multiculturality Attitudes of High School Students: the Case of Turkey / Özgen, Nurettin   Journal Article
Özgen, Nurettin Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This study explores the links between multiculturality attitudes displayed by high school students and their ethnic identity, religious beliefs, self-identification, and place of residence. The study is based on questionnaires from 2823 students in 17 cities in seven geographical regions across Turkey. A five-dimension Multiculturality Attitude test was used, which consists of 21 items and was developed by the authors. The data were analyzed with the non-parametric tests Kruskal–Wallis and Mann–Whitney-U. According to the results, there are statistically significant differences across all categories of the scale.
Key Words Political Culture  Turkey  Youth  Identity  Multiculturality  Ethnic Structure 
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ID:   119060


Anticipating army exit: identity constructions of final year UK career soldiers / Walker, David I   Journal Article
Walker, David I Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract There is recent concern about what becomes of Armed Forces leavers. This is most apparent among leavers themselves and is a feature of short careers that compel individuals to find replacement jobs and lifestyles. Concern for one's civilian future rises to prominence in the preexit period and is confronted in resettlement processes during this time. Based on qualitative analysis of interviews with twenty-eight UK regular Army career soldiers and officers, the article argues that the final year of service-though mostly a practical endeavor-is also an important time for tackling matters of identity. The work is underpinned theoretically by a combination of Mead's pragmatism and Ricoeur's hermeneutics and constructs a typology of preexit orientation. This is an approach that casts some doubt about the utility of projecting oneself into unknown civilian futures from the context of distinctive and familiar Army relations.
Key Words Army  Military  Identity  Resettlement  Transition  Self 
Career  Intersubjective 
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ID:   191776


Anticommunism, Sinocentrism, and elite Chinese identity: the 1957 Declaration of the First Convention of Chinese Schools in the Philippines / Kung, Chien-Wen   Journal Article
Kung, Chien-Wen Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract In April 1957, Chinese educators from across the Philippines gathered in Manila for the First Convention of Chinese Schools in the country. This article comprises a translation of and commentary on the declaration that was published to commemorate the occasion. I use it to illustrate the little-known extent to which elite-authored Chinese identity in the Philippines was deeply infused with a particular strain of Cold War ideology that emphasized unyielding support for the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan and Sinocentrism. Texts such as these call attention to the Philippines as a largely neglected site for historicizing and differentiating among Southeast Asia’s Chinese communities after 1945. Read carefully and contextually, they offer a very different perspective on identity formation within these societies from that found in mainstream, typically Malaya-focused narratives of cultural hybridization, localization, and depoliticization.
Key Words Education  Taiwan  Identity  Cold War  Philippine Chinese  Sinocentrism 
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ID:   079632


Anti-development or identity crisis? Misreading civil society i / McDuie-Ra, Duncan   Journal Article
McDuie-Ra, Duncan Journal Article
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Publication 2007.
Summary/Abstract This paper discusses the complex relationship between civil society and development in Asia by examining the role of ethnic identity in anti-development movements. Local and transnational movements by civil society actors against dams, mines, and deforestation have gained increased attention in academia and activist circles in the last decade, often used as evidence in arguments that development as part of neo-liberalism and/or state-led socialism is faltering. Furthermore, tribal, indigenous, and minority communities are often portrayed as having a closer relationship to the environment, which is seen as instrumental in their opposition to development projects. While agreeing with these arguments to some extent, this paper examines the local context of anti-development movements using research from fieldwork in the Indian state of Meghalaya and argues that struggles over development projects are also struggles over ethnic identity. In Meghalaya, civil society actors from the Khasi ethnic group have opposed several large development projects on the +grounds that these projects will attract labourers from Bangladesh and other parts of India, threatening the survival of the Khasi ethnic group. Damage to the environment, livelihoods, and loss of land are rarely a concern. The failure to recognize the influence of ethnic identity politics in critiques of development raises the risk of misreading both the extent of anti-development sentiments in civil society and the potential for development projects to be reframed by proponents into an acceptable ethnic guise. Furthermore, the actors contesting development through identity politics are overwhelmingly from urban areas, leaving rural people with limited access to civil society. This paper attempts to add a critical perspective to current literature on development and civil society using empirical examples from one of the least researched regions in Asia
Key Words Civil Society  Development  Identity  Meghalaya  Northeast India  Uranium mining 
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Applying constructivism to understanding EU–Russian relations / DeBardeleben, Joan   Journal Article
DeBardeleben, Joan Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Summary/Abstract The improved relations between Russia and the European Union (EU) in the 1990s were followed by a rise in tension since 1999. This article argues that constructivism can provide important insights into the basis of continuing difficulties. Drawing on the nature of the two actors, the author argues that the foreign policy identities of both actors are in a formative process, and thus the construction of inter-subjective meanings has the potential to be a particularly transformative element in the relationship. Both the Russian Federation and the EU are relatively new as regional and global actors, and both are in the process of forming their foreign policy identities, although in quite different contexts. Neither the EU nor Russia has developed a strategic conception for the relationship, and political discourse often obstructs communication rather than furthering the generation of inter-subjective meanings. The article argues that a constructivist analysis can help to expose the deep interconnections between normative disagreements, conflicting constructions of interests and differing concepts of governance.
Key Words European Union  Russia  Governance  Identity  Norms  Constructivism 
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