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088150
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2009.
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ASIDE FROM INSPIRING WELL-UNDERSTOOD EMOTIONS, any anniversary, be it state, public, or personal, gives a pretext for looking into the past, evaluating the present, and thinking about the future.
The Diplomatic Academy boasts a glorious and remarkable past. Its rightful precursor, Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum, was where the diplomatic cadre began to be trained on the systematic basis for the first time in Russia's history.
In the Soviet period (which started with experiments in the spirit of Leon Trotsky's "guideline" that ordered to "shut down this shop" (People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs), it was soon realized that diplomats could not be trained in a haphazard manner and that no less reliable a system was needed than the one that existed before the October 1917 revolution. But the appropriate decision was long in coming. It was not until 1934 that an Institute for the Training of Diplomatic and Consular Workers under the USSR PCFA was formed.
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169776
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This research note interrogates the varied ways in which researcher and research subjects’ intersectional identities complicate multiple levels of access to research participants, specifically with respect to research I conducted with refugee women who returned to Liberia after the end of the civil war in 2003. I argue that motherland (or nationality) and motherhood (or maternity) produce ‘minefields’ during fieldwork that a researcher has to navigate in achieving different levels of access to research subjects, particularly in postconflict situations. While the literature mostly discusses these issues from the perspective of non-Africans conducting fieldwork abroad, this essay analyses issues arising from being a young, female Nigerian conducting research with women, mostly mothers, in the same African sub-region. It explains how being a young, married, pregnant, and mothering Nigerian facilitated or obstructed access to research participants. This foregrounds the complexity of the insider/outsider debate for researchers conducting fieldwork in various contexts, and thereby contributes to the wider literatures on feminist methodologies and qualitative fieldwork.
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137474
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Relying primarily on field research in the Siberian city of Omsk, this essay analyses a variety of ways in which state patriotic terminology is used by individuals and groups through the study of organisations and activities that deploy the patriotic label, such as schools, museums, youth clubs, and summer camps. Analysis based on field work suggests that although patriotism includes a basic consensus about the homeland, a clue to the success of the concept is its capacity to be appropriated, distorted, or embedded in diverse understandings and practices. Easily ‘captured’ by different actors according to their needs and goals, patriotism also appears to be deeply rooted in the personal and the private. Everyday patriotism is thus far from being reduced to its top-down or official dimension. While patriotism is a tool that officials efficiently use to promote their political goals, it is also a symbolic resource that Russian society uses in its attempts to reformulate a new collective identity.
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138523
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