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Contradictions and Tensions Between Old and New: an Audience Perception of Indigenous Culture Representation in Soap Opera / Onyenankeya, Oluwayemisi Mary; Onyenankeya, Kevin ; Osunkunle, Oluyinka

Onyenankeya, Oluwayemisi Mary	Journal Article
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There is a perception that soap operas are progressively infusing dominant social values and ideas while constructing and positioning indigenous cultures as peripheral and inconsistent with modernity. This article aims at ascertaining audience perceptions of and attitudes toward the construction and representation of indigenous cultures in Generations: The Legacy within the framework of indigeneity and audience reception theories. Using quantitative methodology, 350 questionnaires were distributed to a randomly selected sample. Findings showed the majority of the audience felt the soap represents indigenous cultures as the ‘insignificant other’ and perpetuates stereotypes about traditional indigenous groups. This process creates cultural tensions.

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South Africa ; Representation ; Homogenisation ; Indigeneity ; Indigenous Cultures ; Audience Reception ;
Soap Opera

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ID: 078558

Homogenisation, nationalism and war: should we still read Ernest Gellner? / Conversi, Daniele

Conversi, Daniele	Journal Article
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2007.

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Is homogenising nationalism a consequence of industrialisation? This view has been most forcefully and systematically advanced by Ernest Gellner. The article contests this approach by focusing instead on militarism and militarisation. It therefore identifies the key role of the mass army as presaging the era of mass nationalism and cultural homogenisation. Drawing on a range of authors from history, sociology and political science, the relationship is found to be reciprocal and symbiotic. A preliminary exploration on the possibility of early modern (or pre-modern) forms of cultural homogenisation is preceded by a critical assessment of Gellner's interchangeable use of the terms culture, language and ethnicity.

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Ethnicity ; Nationalism ; Militarisation ; Theories of Nationalism ; Homogenisation

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ID: 102830

Trajectory of nation-building through language policies: the case of Turkey during the early republic (1920-38) / Bayar, Yesim

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2011.

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This article explores the link between language policies and nation-building by focusing on the Turkish case during the early Republican period (1920-38). As opposed to conceptualising nation builders as seamlessly and strategically forming a nation out of the remnants of an empire, this article emphasises the complex and, at times, ambiguous nature of the nation-building process using Turkey as a case study. The article is also critical of ethno-symbolic accounts of nations and nation formation that tend to emphasise the cultural at the expense of the political sphere. Instead, by looking at the process and content of the formulation of language policies, this study demonstrates how culture was highly politicised during the formative period of the Turkish nation.

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Nationalism ; Minorities ; Language ; Turkey ; Homogenisation

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