Narrating peoplehood amidst diversity historical and theoretical perspectives

"Telling stories is an essential part of being human: we tell stories about ourselves to show other people who we are and where we belong. Nations have stories to tell too-"stories of peoplehood"--That build and maintain a sense of national belonging and identity. The concept has been...

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Otros Autores: Böss, Michael, 1952- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Denmark : Aarhus University Press 2011.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Stories of peoplehood: an approach to the study of identity, memory, and historiography / Michael Boss
  • Re-imagining a people: towards a theory of peoplehood as social imaginary / Bernard Eric Jensen
  • Citizenship, belonging and identification: the state of Denmark / Richard Jenkins
  • Our stories, our selves: identities and the dialogics of narrative / Martin O. Heisler
  • Identity and nationalism in a global world: some theoretical reflections / Mark Haugaard
  • Nation, region, and immigration in U.S. history, 1864-1924 / Eric Rauchway
  • From the shining city on a hill to a great metropolis on a plain? American stories of immigration and peoplehood / Rogers M. Smith
  • From workers to enemies: national security, state building, and America's war on illegal immigrants / Ines Valdez
  • Narratives of nation and anti-nation: the media and the construction of Latinos as a threat to the United States / Leo R. Chavez
  • Immigration and the intersection of ethnic and national narratives: the case of ethnic Mexicans in the United States / Tomas R. Jimenez
  • The writing of history and national identity: the Danish case / Claus Møller Jørgensen
  • Grand narratives in Danish history: from functional identity to problematic identity / Ove Korsgaard
  • Who are we now? a multicultural Canada in the twenty-first century / J.L. Cranatstein
  • Canada's story: the urgency of history / Andrew Cohen
  • National identity, American and otherwise / Francis Fukuyama
  • Narratives of peoplehood, national history, and imagined nations amidst diversity: a conclusion / Michael Boss.