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090598
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Projects of official nationalism have long been understood as state-sponsored attempts at enforcing cultural uniformity within the borders of the national territory. Contemporary nationalisms tend to compartmentalize minority cultural groups in a way that marginalizes those who are not seen as belonging to the core of the "modern" nation. Contemporary official Taiwanese nationalism promotes the "ethnic Taiwanese" (Hokkien) majority as the modern center of an otherwise diverse nation, primarily through the funding and 'preservation' of non-Hokkien cultural traditions. Though these programs that celebrate local cultures are more inclusive than earlier nationalisms in Taiwan, the terms of inclusion nonetheless function as a form of neoliberal state control of minorities, such as the Hakka (kejia ren). This article examines how Hakka "culture workers" (wenhua gongzuozhe) resist state attempts at spatial and symbolic marginalization. From producing ethnographies that create a Hakka neighborhood to organizing a parade route that symbolically links that neighborhood to Taipei's government and financial centers, Hakka culture workers resist multicultural nationalism by making Hakka spaces that are resistant to state attempts to marginalize them. I argue that their work is a prime example of how communities and individuals can successfully negotiate the cultural and spatial politics of the neoliberal state.
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090601
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2009.
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This article applies the literature on political transnationalism to the unique case of a growing population of Americans, born and bred in the United States, who are choosing to live in Mexico. With few exceptions, this population, moving from north to south, fits the model of transnational migrants who reside in a country of settlement while maintaining ties, political and otherwise, to their country of origin. They vote in U.S. elections, raise money for U.S. campaigns, meet with U.S. politicians, and form civic organizations dedicated to the values of their homeland all while residing in Mexico. The exceptions in the case, however, point to the need for minor refinements in the literature on transnationalism to take account of a sending state that is privileged in relation to the receiving state and migrants who are privileged relative to their host society. The case also has important political and policy implications given that this population of U.S. emigrants, many of them retirees, is likely to increase in coming years, as is their cross-border political engagement.
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090597
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2009.
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This article looks at Palestinian cuisine in Israel as revealing negotiations over inclusion and self-identification of Palestinians in Israel. By sustaining culinary practices and transmitting them from one generation to the next, Palestinians become active agents who construct and negotiate their cultural differentiation and entitlement to ethnic distinctiveness. This course of action is taking place in two complementary spheres. By applying their culinary "know-how" knowledge in the domestic sphere, Palestinian women narrate modernity and construct their form and modes of participation in Israeli culture. Simultaneously, men, who cook in the public sphere, deliberately uphold traditional knowledge. Thus, they sustain traditional images of Palestinian cooking, establish forms of resistance to the appropriation of their culinary assets into the Jewish culinary repertoire, and negotiate positioning in Israeli society.
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090600
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2009.
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This article analyzes local engagements with tourism at the Canadian Niagara border. While regional elites promote cross-border tourism as part of a wider project of economic restructuring, interviews conducted with young Canadian borderlanders reveal critiques of tourism-related work and expressions of anti-Americanism. Young borderlanders' experiences and identities, I argue, have wider implications for regional and continental projects of integration and securitization in a changing North American political economy.
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