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1. The Politics of Religion: Modernity, Nationhood and Education in Japan (EJ815950)
Author(s):
Shibata, Masako
Source:
Intercultural Education, v19 n4 p353-361 Aug 2008
Pub Date:
2008-08-00
Pub Type(s):
Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Peer-Reviewed:
Yes
Descriptors: World History; Nationalism; Religion; Foreign Countries; Development; Social Change; Christianity
Abstract: While religion in Japan is traditionally linked to nationhood and nation-building, the post-war period has seen Shinto consciously invoked to restore a sense of national identity through a focus on Japan's victimhood. In this context, there is a focus on the Yasukuni Shrine, dedicated to the war dead and an icon of contemporary Japanese cultural nationalism symbolizing the use of indigenous religion in an interpretation of the war and post-war nationhood. This, together with the influence of the US, has contributed to a more pluralisitic view of national history in schools. (Contains 1 note.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract
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2. Chicano Hip-Hop as Interethnic Contact Zone (EJ787997)
McFarland, Pancho
Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v33 n1 p173-183 Spr 2008
2008-00-00
Descriptors: Popular Culture; Racial Factors; Cultural Influences; Mexican Americans; Reference Groups; Racial Relations; Minority Groups; Blacks; African Americans; Hispanic Americans; Whites; Music; Dance; Racial Identification
Abstract: Hip-hop is an interethnic contact zone that allows for the creation of new expressive cultures and new identities for young people. Its openness derives in part from the wide range of expression and interpretation allowed in 182 "McFarland" African musics. Moving beyond the often stifling options offered by an earlier generation that focused on identity politics and cultural nationalism, hip-hop is an open field in which youth of varying experiences can find a place. The nationalist politics of the Chicano movement and the Black Power movement left little room for alternative expressions of identity that did not fit into the narrowly defined categories of "Chicano" and "black." In an age of new relationships and new ideas, Chicana/o youth require an expressive culture that reflects their experience living in a multiracial world and consuming and participating in multiracial musical cultures. Chicano hip-hop, along with "rock en espanol" and "reggaeton", provides such a culture. Hip-hop offers an example of how people of different races and ethnicities can find common ground. It points the way, also, to a new scholarly orientation that focuses on the relationships between people of color--relations of both conflict and cooperation--and moves away from scholarship that often unwittingly centers and privileges whiteness as the reference point. Without a new orientation and understanding of youth culture, especially hip-hop, the analyses of culture and race limit the possibilities for looking beyond race and color toward a future in which phenotype accounts for less than one's character. Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract
3. The Revolution Fails Here: Cherrie Moraga's "The Hungry Woman" as a Mexican Medea (EJ787957)
Ybarra, Patricia
Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v33 n1 p63-88 Spr 2008
Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Descriptors: Historiography; Drama; Conflict; Literary Genres; Mexicans; Indigenous Populations; Nationalism; Cultural Awareness
Abstract: This essay argues that Moraga's recent play, "The Hungry Woman," is a meditation on the failure of the "Queer Aztlan" project articulated in 1993 as part of her collection "The Last Generation." It views the play through the lens of Mexican dramatic structures and historiography, explicating how Moraga interrogates the possibilities of indigenismo by dramatizing the failed revolution and the fallen warrior. Inspired by the work of John Ochoa, particularly his reading of Octavio Paz, I claim that while the play stages the failure of a revolution based on cultural nationalism, this lack of success is a productive one. Viewed within this frame, "The Hungry Woman" emerges as a play almost, but not quite, weighed down by pessimism. The essay concludes by exploring why this Mexican form of failure was so difficult to convey to a U.S. audience and analyzes recent productions of the play, including the one I directed at Brown University in spring 2006. (Contains 2 figures and 14 notes.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract
4. "Ojo de la Diosa": Becoming Divine in Delilah Montoya's Art Photography (EJ787949)
Kuusinen, Asta
Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v33 n1 p33-61 Spr 2008
Descriptors: Mexican Americans; Artists; Hispanic American Culture; Religious Factors; Females; Photography; Gender Issues; Males; Institutionalized Persons; Christianity
Abstract: The essay interprets Delilah Montoya's artworks in the context of so-called feminist theology, drawing from its ideas about desire, natality, and self-divination. After discussing the theme of desire and the quest for women's religious agency in some of Montoya's earlier works, the essay focuses on the photo-installation "La Guadalupana", elucidating the artist's technique in reorganizing the parameters of the "proto-subject" of Chicano cultural nationalism. One of the reified embodiments of this subject allegedly is "el pinto", the Mexican American male convict or ex-convict. Elaborating upon Montoya's working methods and her motivation to extract the pinto image from the prison confines and spirit his body into the museum, the essay finally argues that the installation engages in a bi-gendering performance that ritualizes the male body as the site of suffering. At the same time, the vernacular religious aesthetics of the work situate the artist herself as the "Eye" of a Mexican American community--that is, as an embodied subject whose religious authority dismantles the myth that only the male body can act as the writer and reader of culture. (Contains 5 figures and 15 notes.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract
5. Canadian University, Inc., and the Role of Canadian Criticism (EJ769243)
Milz, Sabine
Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, v27 n2 p127-139 Apr 2005
2005-04-00
Descriptors: Critical Theory; Social Agencies; Leadership; Criticism; Privatization; Democracy; Canadian Literature; Academic Discourse; Foreign Countries; General Education; Global Approach; Political Attitudes; College Faculty; Graduate Students
Abstract: In this article, the author seeks to address the present function of Canadian criticism by undertaking a meditation on the contemporary Canadian university and stating his own position as a critic of Canadian literature in this institutional framework. The author asks: What are the connections between neoliberalism and cultural nationalism in Canadian political and academic discourse?; and What does it mean to teach and study a "national literature" in a university environment that sees education and scholarship primarily as economic commodities and commodifiers? The author contends that it does not suffice today to reclaim the university as a public sphere of responsible leadership. It is insufficient to argue, as Heather MacIvor (1997) does in "Castles on the Cortex," that as academic intellectuals "we have deliberately . . .abandoned our responsibility to lead and shape public debate. We speak in tongues, deliberately making ourselves incomprehensible to anyone without a Ph.D.---or, indeed, to anyone with a Ph.D. from another discipline. We have squandered our social mission" Not only is MacIvor's assumption that the gulf between the Canadian university and society once was much narrower doubtful and nostalgic-sounding, it also falls short of recognizing that people need to scrutinize the very notion of the modern academic subject's "social mission" in a state structure of elite-representative democracy. People need to radically reconfigure this very understanding of elite-representative social agency and leadership as an issue of equal access to and participation in particular sites of power. The author argues that the key task of contemporary Canadian critics is not to create a greater public presence for human sciences researchers and scholars, but to recover a sense of "the public" from decades of commercialization, privatization, and de-democratization. This paper suggests that a fundamental level of contemporary political struggle is the struggle over thelegitimacy of concepts such as "liberal education," "the public," and "the democratic nation-state." Critical theory can and does function as an important tool in this struggle, as it does in the struggle over the role of the scholar vis-a-vis broader public issues that arise under the current logics and structures of global power. (Contains 11 notes.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract
6. Irish Studies Today. (ED476591)
Gregor, Keith, Ed.
International Journal of English Studies, v2 n2 2002
2002-00-00
Books; Collected Works - Serials
N/A
Descriptors: Art Education; Cultural Differences; Elementary Secondary Education; Females; Fiction; Films; Foreign Countries; Gender Issues; Higher Education; Literature; Political Issues; Theater Arts; World History
Abstract: This collection of papers includes the following: "Preface" (Keith Gregor); "Cultural Nationalism and the Irish Literary Revival" (David Pierce); "Transitions in Irish Miscellanies between 1923 and 1940" (Malcom Ballin); "Born into the Troubles: Deirdre Madden's 'Hidden Symptoms'" (Tamara Benito de la Iglesia); "'Reading in the Dark': The Transcendence of Political Reality Through Arts" (Aida Diaz Bild); "Ireland on Screen: A View from Spain" (Rosa Gonzalez Casademont); "Ireland, Nostalgia and Globalisation: Brian Friel's 'Dancing at Lughnasa' on Stage and Screen" (Mireia Aragay); "Returning the Gaze: Culture and the Politics of Surveillance in Ireland" (Spurgeon Thompson); "Narratives of Internal Exile in Mary Lavin's Short Stories" (Marie Arndt); and "I Am, Therefore I'm Not (Women)" (Moynagh Sullivan). It also includes reviews of two books: "Ireland's Others: Gender and Ethnicity in Irish Literature and Popular Culture" (Elizabeth Butler Culingford) and "Irlanda ante uno Nuevo Milenio" (Ines Praga Terente). The books are reviewed by Spurgeon Thompson and Keith Gregor, respectively. (Papers contain references.) (SM) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract
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7. Nationalistic Education as the Focus for Civics and Citizenship Education: The Case of Hong Kong. (EJ660902)
Leung, Yan Wing; Print, Murray
Asia Pacific Education Review, v3 n2 p197-209 Dec 2002
Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Descriptors: Citizenship Education; Civics; Colonialism; Cultural Awareness; Foreign Countries; Nationalism; Patriotism; Secondary Education; Secondary School Teachers; Social Studies
Abstract: Report on a study of nationalistic education in secondary schools in Hong Kong. Findings show that civic educators were strongly eclectic in education for cosmopolitan, civic, and cultural nationalism and moderately eclectic in education for anticolonial nationalism but rejected education for totalitarian nationalism. (Contains 5 tables and 57 references.) (WFA) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract
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8. Political and Cultural Nationalism in Education. The Ideas of Rousseau and Herder Concerning National Education. (EJ608685)
Wiborg, Susanne
Comparative Education, v36 n2 p235-43 May 2000
2000-00-00
Historical Materials; Information Analyses; Journal Articles
Descriptors: Citizenship Education; Cultural Education; Educational Philosophy; Elementary Secondary Education; Ethnicity; Foreign Countries; Identification (Psychology); Nationalism; Political Socialization; Public Education; Role of Education
Abstract: Jean Jacques Rousseau in France and Johann Gottfied Herder in Germany both emphasized the role of education in building the nation-state. However, Rousseau focused on shaping the national character through citizenship education and political socialization in public schools, while Herder saw a national identity evolving from a common culture and language transmitted and reinforced in school. (SV)
9. Imagining the Mexican Immigrant Worker: (Inter)Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles. (EJ622045)
Chavez, Ernesto
Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v25 n2 p109-35 Fall 2000
Historical Materials; Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Activism; Affirmative Action; College Students; Cultural Images; Ethnicity; Group Unity; Higher Education; Ideology; Marxian Analysis; Mexican Americans; Migrant Workers; Organizations (Groups); Social History; Undocumented Immigrants
Abstract: Traces the history of two organizations of the 1970s Chicano Movement: the Committee to Free Los Tres and the Centro de Accion Social Autonomo (CASA). Discusses their Marxist ideology, notion of Chicano cultural nationalism, involvement of college students and other youth, campaigns supporting immigrant workers' rights and affirmative action at universities, and reasons for their demise. (Contains 60 references.) (SV) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract
10. Language Planning and Development in the Caribbean: Multi-Ethnic Suriname. (EJ609877)
St-Hilaire, Aonghas
Language Problems and Language Planning, v23 n3 p211-31 Fall 1999
1999-00-00
Descriptors: Colonialism; Creoles; Cultural Maintenance; Diachronic Linguistics; Foreign Countries; Language Planning; Nationalism
Abstract: Examines language planning and development in Suriname in reference to a Caribbean-wide phenomenon arising from movements of cultural nationalism in the region after the Second World War. During this period, people throughout the Caribbean began to question local supremacy of European languages and cultures and denigration of creole language and cultures. (Author/VWL) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract
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