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120017
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ID:
120011
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2013.
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This article explores symbolic boundaries and identity-formation of the 'ethnonational Us', using narrative analysis of eleven Israeli-Jewish dissidents. The hegemonic nationalist discourse in Israel - Zionism - constructs the dissidents' identities as the 'Virtuous Us', yet these individuals genuinely try to connect with the 'Demonized Palestinian Other'. I suggest that the dissidents attempt to use alternative national identity discourses to overcome symbolic boundaries. I highlight inconsistencies within individual dissidents' narratives and attribute them to the employment of multiple discourses, suggesting that some discourses fail to coherently reconcile 'national' history with the well-being of the Other, whilst others repel dissidents by appearing to negate or destroy their identities. The dissidents, therefore, cannot use the available discourses to fully overcome symbolic boundaries. Only the hegemonic nationalist discourse can offer a self-evident and compelling enunciation of the dissidents' political reality, leading one insightful dissident to conclude that there is 'no way out' of his dilemma.
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120021
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ID:
120012
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2013.
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This article explores the question of 'boundary-formation' by examining the significance of historical narratives for defining the nation. Specifically, it compares the historical construction of religious or confessional identity as national boundary in the cases of Ireland and Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The article examines the importance of this historically constructed national identity for rendering continuity to the nation's history and delineating the national 'Other', thereby establishing national particularity. The historical 'joining' of 'Irishness' to Catholic identity and 'Germanness' to Protestant identity, as well as providing cultural 'cement' for the nation, also had exclusionary implications.
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ID:
120016
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ID:
120010
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2013.
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The pivotal role played by Computer-Mediated Communications (CMCs) as mobilization tools for social movements as diverse as the 'Arab Spring', the Iranian 'Green Revolution', and the 2008 Greek 'December Riots', has rekindled academic interest in the internet as a field of sociological research. Drawing on new media and nationalism studies, this article approaches a particular type of CMC as a 'virtual community'. By examining the context of post-1999 Greek-Turkish reconciliation, it is argued that these virtual communities have offered significant breathing space for individuals who are ready to revisit, discuss, and negotiate the constitutive boundaries of modernity's 'imagined communities', and are therefore conducive to the Greek-Turkish rapprochement.
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ID:
120019
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ID:
120013
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ID:
120015
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ID:
120014
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ID:
120018
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ID:
120020
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