Legend, Veneration, and Nationalism

Arabesk: Music and nationalism

Nationalism and Separatism

Th e historical era following World War II is often referred to as the era of decolonization, the time when the former European powers, as well as America and Japan, gave up their overseas empires and dozens of new sovereign countries came into being. However, it could just as easily be called the era of nationalist separatism, as the sheer number of ethnic and pan-ethnic movements seeking inde...

The Legend File System

We have designed, prototyped, and evaluated the Legend file system, which exploits the ability to regenerate lost files to improve reliability. Unlike RAID-5 and RAID-6, Legend degrades gracefully as the number of failed storage devices increases. Legend also mitigates the high storage capacity overhead imposed by n-way replications. Combined with existing methods, Legend can form another line ...

We are Legend

We are HIV. Our family is ancient. Out of Africa, Monkey to man, From the trees and forests, To the towns and cities. We are here. For we are HIV, we are legion. Our children are billions, Our home, in your defenses, In your blood, your brain, Your saliva, your semen. We are everywhere. For we are HIV, we are immortal. We are part of you, And you of us, We live with you, but May not die with yo...

Nationalism and Ethnicity

Neither nationalism nor ethnicity is vanishing as part of an obsolete traditional order. Both are part of a modem set of categorical identities invoked by elites and other participants in political and social struggles. These categorical identities also shape everyday life, offering both tools for grasping pre-existing homogeneity and difference and for constructing specific versions of such id...