El presente artículo narra una historia política de la fiesta del Much de Sineu, en Mallorca, un innovador ritual festivo explícitamente inventado en el que con un espíritu manifiestamente carnavalesco se parodian fiestas locales propias y ajenas. El análisis histórico de la génesis y desarrollo de esta celebración proporciona tres evidencias desta...
This report explores the lived experiences of encountering ‘anti-gender’ politics, its effects, and resistances in nine case studies: Belarus, people living in exile in Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Switzerland. We used the term ‘anti-gender’ cautiously recognising that it is not used, or only used in very specific ways, ...
This thesis explores the relationship between ‘national’ identity and football in Galicia, north-west Spain. The research is based on an oral history of football supporters in Galicia and the Galician diaspora in the United Kingdom, with a focus on 1987 to 2005. This period saw unprecedented success for Galician football clubs Deportivo La Coruña, ...
Published in Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics
The discipline of folklore studies was introduced to China in the early twentieth century while the country faced a grave national crisis resulting from intense foreign pressure and a rigid political system that was incapable of adapting to the challenges of the modern world. Nationalism contributed to the rising interest in folklore from the late ...
Published in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Kanonistische Abteilung
Since the late eighteenth century German conservatism – conveyed primarily by Prussians – was imbued with certain reactionary ideas, but at the same time did not deny the importance of changes in state and society. Conservatives recognized the irreversibility of the Reform Era that followed the defeat by Napoleon, and the need to accommodate change...
Published in Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Ansätze einer globalen Religionsgeschichte haben entscheidend zum Verständnis von Allgemeinbegriffen wie Religion als historisch gewachsen und veränderlich beigetragen. Ebenso haben sie aufgezeigt, dass das Verständnis von Religion in Wechselwirkung mit anderen Allgemeinbegriffen wie Nation geprägt ist. Geschlecht findet in diesen Untersuchungen bi...
Published in Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics
The war in Ukraine has had enormous media coverage in the West, generating a wide-ranging debate concerning its origins, responsibilities, and consequences. The debate in the media raises an interesting question seldom explored in the study of nations and nationalism, specifically, the scarce incidence or penetration by expert knowledge into the th...
La présence et l’importance de la littérature française dans la création brésilienne de la première moitié du XXe siècle – autrement dit au moment même de l’affirmation de sa modernité – ne sont plus à démontrer. À partir de la recension des traductions françaises et de la lecture de nombreuses correspondances d’artistes et écrivains ainsi que des ...
In 1970, a Mexican women’s national fútbol (soccer) team participated in the first-ever women’s World Cup, held in Italy. Organized by private business interests, Mexico competed as the sole representative from outside of Europe. The Mexican media and State officials, such as Mexico City regent Alfonso Corona del Rosal, used this opportunity to fra...
日本の租借地である大連において、中国ナショナリズムは中国本国のナショナリズムと共振しながらも、独自の展開を遂げていった。その中心となった組織が一九二〇年に設立された大連中華青年会（以下、中華青年会）である。中華青年会は活動を非政治的なものに限定することで、日本統治下の大連に中国人の公共空間を創出した。一九二〇年代半ばに中国本国でナショナリズムが高揚すると、中華青年会の活動は政治化し、日本側との対立を深める。一九二八年に会長が逮捕されると、中華青年会の活動はスポーツと初等教育に集約された。これらは非政治的とみなされたがゆえに、ナショナリズム遂行の手段となりえたのである。満洲国建国後、中華青年会は中国との関係断絶を迫られ、大連青年会と改称する。大連青年会はその存続のために「満洲国ナショナリズム」...
