Materializing the Nation
Title | Materializing the Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Foster |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2002-10-24 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780253215499 |
"Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested."—Orvar Löfgren, author of On Holiday: A History of Vacationing Why, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also through mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He offers a thoughtful critique of recent approaches to nationalism and consumption and an ethnographic perspective on constructs of the nation found in official policy documents, letters to the editor, school textbooks, song lyrics, advertisements, and other materials. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the links among nationalism, consumption, and media, in Melanesia and elsewhere.
Materializing the Nation
Title | Materializing the Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Foster |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2002-10-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0253013615 |
"Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested."—Orvar Löfgren, author of On Holiday: A History of Vacationing Why, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also through mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He offers a thoughtful critique of recent approaches to nationalism and consumption and an ethnographic perspective on constructs of the nation found in official policy documents, letters to the editor, school textbooks, song lyrics, advertisements, and other materials. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the links among nationalism, consumption, and media, in Melanesia and elsewhere.
Materializing Difference
Title | Materializing Difference PDF eBook |
Author | Péter Berta |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 419 |
Release | 2019-04-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1487520409 |
How do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture - such as prestige consumption as well as commodity aesthetics, biographies, and ownership histories - play in the production of social and political identities, differences, and hierarchies? How do (informal) consumer subcultures of collectors organize and manage themselves? Drawing on theories from anthropology and sociology, specifically material culture, consumption, museum, ethnicity, and post-socialist studies, Materializing Difference addresses these questions via analysis of the practices and ideologies connected to Gabor Roma beakers and roofed tankards made of antique silver. The consumer subculture organized around these objects - defined as ethnicized and gendered prestige goods by the Gabor Roma living in Romania - is a contemporary, second-hand culture based on patina-oriented consumption. Materializing Difference reveals the inner dynamics of the complex relationships and interactions between objects (silver beakers and roofed tankards) and subjects (Romanian Roma) and investigates how these relationships and interactions contribute to the construction, materialization, and reformulation of social, economic, and political identities, boundaries, and differences. It also discusses how, after 1989, the political transformation in Romania led to the emergence of a new, post-socialist consumer sensitivity among the Gabor Roma, and how this sensitivity reshaped the pre-regime-change patterns, meanings, and value preferences of prestige consumption.
Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities
Title | Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Ira, Jaroslav |
Publisher | Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 2018-06-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 8024635909 |
This volume deals with the materialization of identity in urban space. Urban spaces played an important role in the formation of national identities in post-socialist successor states, whereas the articulation of national identities markedly affected the appearance of the post-socialist cities. Opened by an overview of the research on (post)socialist cities in recent urban history, the book traces the post-socialist intertwining of space and identities in case studies that include Astana and Almaty, Chisinau and Tiraspol, and Skopje, while also linking it to the socialist urbanism, exemplified by the case study on postwar Minsk.
Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific
Title | Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Macintyre |
Publisher | University of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | 335 |
Release | 2014-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 192190240X |
Fast money schemes in Papua New Guinea, collectivities in rural Solomon Islands, gambling in the Cook Islands, and the Vanuatu tax haven—all feature in the interface between Pacific and global economies. Since the 1970s, Melanesian countries and their peoples have been beguiled by the prospect of economic development that would enable them to participate in a world market economic system. Access to global markets would provide the means to improve their standard of living, allowing them to take their places as independent nations in a modern world. Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific takes a broad sweep through contemporary topics in Melanesian anthropology and ethnography. With nuanced and rigorous scholarship, it views contemporary debate on modernity in Melanesia within the context of the global economy and cultural capitalism. In particular, contributors assess local ideas about wealth, success, speculation, and development and their connections to participation in institutions and activities generated by them. This innovative and accessible collection offers a new intersection between Western Pacific anthropology and global studies.
Materializing Democracy
Title | Materializing Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Russ Castronovo |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 444 |
Release | 2002-06-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780822329381 |
DIVInvestigates the complex histories and conflicting desires that are generally concealed behind the term “democracy.”/div
Materializing New Media
Title | Materializing New Media PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Munster |
Publisher | UPNE |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 2011-11-15 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1611682940 |
A significant contribution to investigations of the social and cultural impact of new media and digital technologies