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Focusing on young peoples' articulation of modernity in the imperial and the postcolonial contexts, this paper compares the winning essays submitted to the 1920s Empire Essay Competition with the 21st century entries in the Commonwealth Essay Competition. While the early essays articulate a universal notion of progress as the road to Anglo-Saxon state- and nationhood, the essays of today critically assess and critique modernity. The article argues that today's young people are engaged in a project of negotiating and redefining the modern, essentially a search for a historically and culturally particular modernity. In this way, the young writers become the producers of their own modernity, rather than the consumers of a Western modernity
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077170
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2007.
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If you are a voluntary conditional organization which can only spend about two pence per year on each citizen of your member countries, if you face growing competition for attention from other institutions, innovation in the management of all your assets, and particularly of your human capital, is absolutely vital for your survival. This article suggests building on the well established capacities of the Commonwealth to create a new form of networking. This includes a complete revision of the role of the Commonwealth Foundation so that the Commonwealth can harness the forces of civil society, and not only of Commonwealth NGOs, to the pursuit of the organization's goals
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