Anarchist thinkers have long identified the jealousy inherent to modern state; an exclusive sovereignty claimed against other nation states, secessionists, non-state geopolitical actors, and especially independent organisation by

Abstract This article discusses a reorientation of supersessionist postures in German and Dutch Protestant reflection on emerging nation states the nineteenth-century. Historically, Christian thought often othered “the Jew” as “nascent Christian.” Since seventeenth-century, theologians also entertained possibility theological othering basis legalism Mosaic covenant, which ancient biblical Israe...

This article investigates the portrayal of pledge allegiance in school textbooks middle with a focus on nation construction. Drawing Ethno-Symbolist approach to formation, as developed by Anthony Smith, are analyzed qualitatively. The findings reveal that is portrayed national symbol characterizes Moroccan formation and persistence over long durée, from ethnie pre-modern modern entity.

This essay uses the seminal figure of Jawaharlal Nehru to interrogate the nature and representation of science in modern India. The problem posed by Nehruvian science--the conflict between (yet simultaneity of) science as both universal phenomenon and local effect--lies at the heart of current debates about what science means for the non-West. The problematic of Nehruvian science can be accesse...

New conceptions require new terms. By ‘genocide’ we mean the destruction of a nation or an ethnic group. This word, coined by author to denote old practice in its modern development, ...

©2010 Association of Schools of Public Health In addition to being the first major pandemic of the modern post-germ-theory era, the devastating influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 was also the first to be widely photographed. In army camps and cantonments, in hospitals, and in streets and workplaces across the nation, photographers aimed their lenses and captured a nation struggling to deal with th...

This article examines the issues of media representation and cultural distinctiveness within Scotland, one of many national entities currently denied political and cultural expression at the sub–nation state level. Current output of Scotland’s television and film industries is compared with traditional and modern Scottish literature to see which themes and subjects have been preserved, how repr...

In this article I want to outline an argument for a New Critical Theory with a cosmopolitan intent. Its main purpose is to undermine one of the most powerful beliefs of our time concerning society and politics. This belief is the notion that “modern society” and “modern politics” are to be understood as society and politics organized around the nation-state, equating society with the national i...

The article explores contradictions and convergences between a medium (photography) and the image of the Brazilian Indian from the perspective of the history of Brazilian photography. During the first of three distinct moments, the image of the Indian was of someone exotic, in contradiction with the modern meaning of photography under the Second Empire. During the second moment, in the first fi...