Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis has become an instant classic in nationalism studies. In just over 300 pages, Siniša Malešević, one of the world’s leading scholars, constructed a rich treatise on some central questions our day: How should we think about nationalism? What is future And what accounts for ubiquity national identities and identification long after so-called Age Natio...

searching about nationalism in dramatic literature of iran, cause us to consider two special eras in the one hundred and fifty year old dramatic history of iran: first pahlavi and the time of war between iran and iraq which has allocated a lot of artistic works under the name of defa’e moghadas to itself. but the main aspect of this research is introducing and surveying sho’bie movement – the f...

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ahmad moharram is one of the contemporary poets who felt poverty and deprivation along his life. since his view toward life is a realistic one, so his literature is a realistic one that can be a whole mirror of his contemporary society. since nationalism and patriotism is one of the prominent indices of realistic literature, so this essay tries to analyze national morale of this poet. poem and ...

Nowadays we medical physicists are bombarded with guidelines and task reports, and we may see similar ones from different organizations in the United States of America or worldwide. Many extraordinary and diligent medical physicists have devoted their time and knowledge in creating these documents. Yet some of us might be wondering: should we optimize the use of our resources by establishing a ...

Revised version of a paper presented at the Trinational Institute on Innovation, Competitiveness and Sustainability organized by the Center for Policy Research on Science and Technology of Simon Fraser University and held at Whistler, B.C. on August 14-21 1994. This version is to be published in R. Anderson et al. National and Regional Innovation Systems in a Global Context: The North American ...

Theorisation and debate have been going on around the concept of civil society literally for centuries and ‘civil society theory’ could be understood as an umbrella term for the body of theorisation which has emerged. However, the term is used here in a more restricted sense to refer to the contemporary production of an ideological discourse through which academic theory is recycled as the poli...

1. The story of contemporary Chinese culture is, to a large degree, a story of amalgamation: cultural identities in China form in relation to a number of competing discourses and traditions—from consumerism and nationalism, to Maoism and Confucianism. In their compelling work Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China, Geng Song and Derek Hird carefully examine the production and performance o...

Theories of modernization have assumed that the creation of nation-states involved the breakdown of parochial ethnic boundaries and increasing secularism, all of which resulted in a demographic transition from high to low fertility and mortality. Recent experiences suggests, however, that in some circumstances nation-states may be highly unstable as ethnic minorities assert their rights to self...

Enlightenment “universalism” actually parochial and dangerous.