Search Results for methodological nationalism

... methodological nationalism plausible future Atlantic history lived geography geographic unit of analysis mental map political imaginary nation-state Atlantic historian ...

... Actively seeking to rethink and transcend the geographic boundaries and periodization schemes that a nation-state-driven historical account solidifies, historians of the Atlantic world have developed tools to escape this methodological prison. Instead of thinking of the nation-state...

..., historical temporality, intellectual history, critical theory, and postcolonial studies. It criticizes the methodological nationalism that underlies much scholarship about decolonization and the territorialism that underlies much scholarship on African and Caribbean colonial intellectuals and their forms...

... within allied theories of visual sovereignty, sustainable diplomacy, and earth jurisprudence. The chapter addresses how earth diplomacy drives a critical wedge into the methodological nationalism of the existing literature on Cold War art and diplomacy, while laying to rest a long-standing colonial...

... The conclusion explores the ways in which nationalism is both an object of inquiry in anthropology and a methodological challenge. More and more anthropological inquiry is hindered and sometimes made impossible by forms of policing that keep foreign anthropologists out. At the same time citizens...

... The introduction addresses three matters. First, it provides historical context on late colonial Chile, the independence wars, and nation-state formation during the first half of the nineteenth century. Second, it discusses the theoretical and methodological framework for the book: how and why...

... of nations from the inside and the role assigned to “foreign” racial minorities to safeguard it from the outside. The chapter begins with the methodological difficulties that confront a joint discussion of race and popular postsocialist reality TV. Then it contextualizes the racial and class discourses...

... Chapter 2 is the first of three chapters that pivot around imaginative geographies, focusing on how people’s engagements with lifestyle television involve imagining place at a range of scales, from the perceived relation between regional localities and national metropolises to the relation...

... Beginning with 1985, Kingdom Come argues that African clergy led the nation when the government incarcerated, exiled, or killed South Africa's leaders. The introduction suggests that religious activism, largely embodied by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other clergy...

... regarded as thieves because they derive personal profits from subterranean resources that are the legal inheritance of all Bolivians. The relationship among mining cooperatives, resource nationalism, and the Plurinational State is explored through a material history of the subterranean, an approach...

... rethinks the desire to seek authentically Korean methodologies for studies of Korean photography through the binary of national adherence and antagonization. The introduction challenges both epistemic frames by exploring the temporality, performativity, and sensoriality of post–Korean War photography...

... economic approach: that is, femonationalism. It further clarifies the three theoretical dimensions of this concept: femonationalism as convergence, as ideological formation, and as neoliberal political economy. The introduction finally explains the study’s methodology and the reasons for the focus...

... The introduction theorizes the cybernetic border as a technopolitical regime, defined as the historical entities involved in governing the material boundaries of imperial and national formations. The cybernetic border enacts epistemological and procedural relations invested in information...

... The introduction, “The Necromantic State,” presents the key concepts that ground the theoretical framework and the methodology that are fundamental throughout the book to understand the operations of Hugo Chávez’s specter as a political and social figure: necromancy, spectral remains, afterglow...

... While coca leaf has been an integral part of Andean civilization since long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, it has been the target of attacks by Catholic priests, moralizing modernizers, and international drug warriors over centuries. In 1961, the United Nations Single Convention...

... political career to fighting for indigenous peasants’ land rights and their national inclusion. He pursued a strictly nonviolent course of activism and his stories reveal both the triumphs and the tremendous hardships linked to a life of activism in the context of global Cold War. The introduction reflects...

.... It introduces the term “expulsion exceptionalism” to indicate the ways in which Uganda, Black Africa, Idi Amin, and the 1972 Asian expulsion are understood through global and racialized imaginaries of illiberalism in relation to an imagined liberal West and a liberal Indian nation. It introduces critical...

... “What We Talk about When We Talk about Erosion” considers the global scale of erosion. Framing the discussion with a meditation on the concept of eros, the conclusion draws from the methodology of the “pluriverse” as articulated by Mario Blaser and Marisol de la Cadena via the Ejército Zapatista...