Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

萨义德以其独特的双重身份,对西方中心权力话语做了分析,通过对文学作品、演讲演说等文本的解读,将O rie n ta lis m——"东方学",做了三重释义:一门学科、一种思维方式和一种权力话语系统,对东方学权力话语做了系统的批判,同时将东方学放入空间维度对东方学文本做了细致的解读。

萨义德的“Orientalism”释义

One dimensional man

Ordered mesoporous materials in catalysis

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The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class

Sol-gel synthesis of a multifunctional, hierarchically porous silica/apatite composite.

In the last decade, Sweden has emerged on the other side of the 1990s crisis with, if not its self-image intact, then at least a reasserted confidence as, once again, the most modern country in the ...

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Nordic Nostalgia and Nordic Light: the Swedish model as Utopia 1930–2007

In 1964, two researchers at RAND, Olaf Helmer and Theodore Gordon, presented what they argued was a general theory of prediction, a theory that, Helmer boasted, would “enabl[e] us to deal with socio-economic and political problems as confidently as we do with problems in physics and chemistry.” Work had begun at RAND in the early 1960s to find a systematic and scientific approach to the future. Computers had made it possible to “amass all available information” about ongoing developments and process it in a systematic way, providing “the kind of massive data processing and interpreting capability that, in the physical sciences, created the breakthrough which led to the development of the atomic bomb.” This meant a radical shift in notions of the future, a shift that was emphasized by many of the futurists of the period. The future, Helmer stated in another assertive piece, could now be liberated from the grip of utopian fantasy and superstition and be welcomed into the halls of science.

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The Great Future Debate and the Struggle for the World

This qualitative study aims to explore the cultural meaning of accomplishing food-related work by older women, when disease has diminished their abilities and threatens to make them dependent. Seventy-two women with stroke, rheumatoid arthritis, and Parkinson's disease, as well as women without those diseases, were interviewed. All were living at home. Results showed that older women valued independence and feared dependence when declining ability threatened performance of food-related work. They also had strong beliefs about living a "normal life," managing by oneself as long as possible, and becoming their own masters again. To remain independent, participants used three kinds of strategies: Public Health Service Support, self-managing, and adaptation. Their beliefs about dependence included not becoming a burden, retaining self-determination, and maintaining order in life. Implications for nursing include supporting independent cooking, developing care plans with the care recipient, and demonstrating respect for the women's self-determination.

Older Women's Perceptions of Independence Versus Dependence in Food-Related Work

It is widely acknowledged that recent decades have been marked by a resurgence of nationalism. Many have noted the apparent paradox that, in the era of globalization, national stereotypes, national images and even national brands seem to carry more resonance than ever before. Indeed, the idea of national peoples, far from being confined to the nationalist era of the 19th century and inter-war period, has come to dominate European political discourse in the 1990s and 2000s, with politicians in France, Britain and elsewhere making frequent reference to notions of French republican values, Britishness and the like. This phenomenon is also visible in the Nordic countries. Populist nationalist parties of the right such as the Danish People’s Party (Dansk Folkeparti), the Progress Party in Norway (Fremskrittsparti) and the True Finns (Perussuomalaiset) have made significant political advances in recent years. In Norway, the commemoration of a centenary of independence in 2005, and the controversial redesign of the iconic National Museum sparked a debate about Norwegian identity, while the current (2009) bi-centenary of the 1808-9 Finnish war (Finska kriget/Suomen sota) has provoked similar reflections in Finland and Sweden. Meanwhile, in Sweden, recent years have seen a debate on the notion of Swedishness and what defines Swedish values, noticeable not only in political proposals for language and citizenship tests, but also in increasing references, in public discourse, to what Sweden is and what kind of modernity it represents. Although not merely a repetition of older forms of nationalist discourses, the contemporary phenomenon of nationalism is clearly related to ongoing historical processes, drawing on complex historical legacies in its notions of the people, nation, belonging or memory. Most of the time, contemporary nationalism is neither openly xenophobic nor racist, and thus stands in contrast to the aggressive forms of nationalism of the 1930s. Nonetheless, it frequently seems to be linked to perceptions of threats to

Jenny Andersson

Papers

Sol-gel synthesis of a multifunctional, hierarchically porous silica/apatite composite.

Nordic Nostalgia and Nordic Light: the Swedish model as Utopia 1930–2007

The Great Future Debate and the Struggle for the World

Older Women's Perceptions of Independence Versus Dependence in Food-Related Work

Images of Sweden and the Nordic Countries