Others and Brothers

Guest is God ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 27-51
Author(s):  
Drew Thomases
Keyword(s):  
Local Language ◽  
Complex Pedigree ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Tourism Economy

Chapter 1 explores the local language and rhetoric surrounding the idea of sanatana dharma, which roughly translates as “the eternal religion.” Despite the term’s complex pedigree, it more often than not conveys an appeal toward universalism. The author considers it a technique of “brothering,” a concept which indicates that through seeing similarity and downplaying difference, an “other” can become a brother. Tourism serves as a major catalyst in the creation of this discourse, a dynamic epitomized by the repertoire of sayings and phrases promoting Hindu universalism. At the same time, given its place in Pushkar’s tourism economy and its nationalist history, the promise of brotherly love can seem at times tenuous. Here, the author discusses how issues of moneyed interest and virulent nationalism shape, and are negotiated within, discourses of the “eternal religion” while simultaneously giving serious consideration to the prospect of brothering.

Art and the Creation of Mexico’s Communist Party, 1919–1930

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
National History ◽  
Art And Politics ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Creation

Chapter 1 focuses on the founding of Mexico’s Communist Party in 1919, and the Party’s links to the influential national and international artistic movement active in Mexico throughout the 1920s. Although during these early years the Party’s official membership numbers remained relatively insignificant, this chapter argues that the extraordinary influence of these creative participants, both female and male, on the politics of the period was far from trivial. Art and politics intertwined as artists played major roles in political affairs, and government officials appropriated the arts to transmit the “official” national history.

Anthology Publication and the Woman Poet

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-70
Author(s):  
Alexandra Socarides
Keyword(s):  
Literary Culture ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Women's Poetry ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Moment ◽  
First Time

Chapter 1 investigates the moment at mid-century when American women’s poetry was, for the first time, being collected and marketed to a wide audience. By looking closely at the structures and visual components of the anthologies of the late 1840s, this chapter shows just how vexed the placement of the “American woman poet” into literary culture was. While women poets had been deployed in the service of a narrative about American literary culture earlier, it was with the creation of these anthologies that a whole host of conventions got embraced by writers and editors alike. By highlighting the diversity of approaches and poems contained within these anthologies, this chapter returns to the ways in which women’s poetry resisted being flattened into one kind of poem and women poets into one image.

Peripheral Visions, Global Positions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Colmeiro
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Transatlantic Studies ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Multiple Interactions

Chapter 1 aims for a perspectival shift in the approach to remapping contemporary Galician culture and the challenges and opportunities it faces in a global environment. The chapter follows a postnational, non-canonical, and multi/interdisciplinary cultural studies approach, reflecting issues of transnational mobility, migration and transatlantic studies, more in sync with the hybrid complexities of contemporary cultural production. My theoretical perspective is particularly sensitive to the multiple interactions between the local and the global, and the creation of “glocal” realities in complex relations of interdependence and interpenetration.

Hebrew Prose and Stories of an Early Iron Age Past

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Pioske
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Terminus Post Quem ◽  
Biblical Storytelling ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Historical Question ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence

Chapter 1 examines two crucial theoretical questions for the study that follows: when did the writing of Hebrew prose emerge in the ancient world, and what type of knowledge informed the creation of prose texts that recounted past occurrences? This chapter begins by addressing the historical question of when? by drawing on recent epigraphic evidence from the Iron Age period and connecting this evidence to considerations surrounding the rise of vernacular writing and its interface with older, oral forms of discourse. After establishing a rough terminus post quem for the emergence of written Hebrew prose, this chapter then transitions into a study of the type of knowledge that would have been available to those scribes who created these prose writings. Drawing on the insights of Foucault, this chapter concludes by drawing attention to what is termed an episteme of memory that informed biblical storytelling.

Challenges to Building Coercive Institutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-114
Author(s):  
Erica De Bruin
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The Other ◽  
Causal Mechanism ◽  
Security Force ◽  
Fidel Castro ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Military ◽  
Coup Attempt

This chapter compares Kwame Nkrumah's failed effort to counterbalance with efforts by leaders in similar political and economic circumstances: Saskia Stevens in Sierra Leone, Fidel Castro in Cuba, and Modibo Keita in Mali. The comparison provides support for the proposed causal mechanism linking counterweight creation to coup attempts: in each case, the creation of a new counterweight generated resentment and fear about a decline in status within the regular armed forces. The comparison also helps refine the arguments developed in Chapter 1, suggesting new hypotheses about the conditions under which this resentment will result in a coup attempt. It emphasizes the other strategies of coup prevention that rulers adopt in conjunction with counterbalancing, as well as the type of security force used to counterbalance the military. The findings suggest limits to the conditions under which counterbalancing is feasible, as well as concrete steps that rulers might take to mitigate some of the risks associated with counterbalancing.

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