Ray Taras
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ray Taras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ray |
| FAMILY NAME | Taras |
| SIGNATURE | TARAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tomasz JedrowskiSwimming in the Dark
K. Ferrari Like Flies from Afar Trans. Adrian Nathan West. New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. 224 pages. IN A FOUR-DECADE career as a crooked Buenos Aires businessman, the protagonist of K. Ferrari’s Like Flies from Afar has harmed and humiliated a significant portion of the great city’s population. In the 1970s, Mr. Machi—nobody would dare call him by his first name—collaborated with Argentina’s military dictatorship, condemning innocent…
Kraków, Poland: Books Abound 25 Years after Communism
Krakw, Poland: Books Abound 25 Years after Communism
March–April 2014 • 5 photo : nico trinkhaus Kraków has always appealed to aesthetes. A century ago, an avant-garde modernist movement, “Young Poland,” rejuvenated the city with inventive representations of an age of insouciance. One of its members was Stanisław Wyspiański, a painter who also became a playwright . Wesele (Eng. The Wedding, 1990), which he wrote in 1901, remains a classic of the national repertoire . It is at once a reflection on t…
The Surveillance State Bigger, Braver New World
notebook 6 worldliteraturetoday.org What distinguishes the modern surveillance-and-control state from its predecessors is technodeterminism : the use of algorithms, not human beings, to monitor and shape citizens’ attitudes and behavior. A grotesque example of a primitive political order enslaving its subjects is found in Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov’s 1980 novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years. He retold the legend of the mankurts—pris…
Manichean Taxis and Murderous Readers: A Conversation with Rawi Hage
12 worldliteraturetoday.org photo: Madeleine Thien WLT Interview Manichean Taxis and Murderous Readers A Conversation with Rawi Hage Ray Taras July–August 2013 • 13 Ray Taras: Your writings diagnose a variety of problems plaguing contemporary societies. In Carnival, the role of circus people is to entertain the public, maybe even to distract them from really important issues—in a way similar to the bread and circuses Roman emperors offered up in …
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
H to him. But turning away from the ^^^^H integral relationships and meshing ^^^^B of stories promised by the frames ^^^^H does not necessarily lead to coherent ^^^^B structure.The pieces are inplace and ^^^^B thereare links,but theoverall effect ^^^^B ismore like an arrangement of dif ^^^^B ferentepisodes than a series united ^^^^B by themes and anxieties. ^HjH W.M. H?gen ^HBH Oklahoma BaptistUniversity JosephBoyden.Through Black Spruce. Toronto…
Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment by Erin K. Jenne
Journal Article Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment by Erin K. Jenne Get access Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowermentby Erin K. Jenne. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2007. 273 pp. $45.00. Ray Taras Ray Taras Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 123, Issue 2, Summer 2008, Pages 342–343, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538…
Poland's Diplomatic Misadventure in Iraq: With Us or Against Us
(2004). Poland's Diplomatic Misadventure in Iraq: WITH US OR AGAINST US. Problems of Post-Communism: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 3-17
Ukraine's transnationals, far‐away locals and xenophobes: The prospects for Europeanness
Home Writ Large: Nationalism and the Maintenance of Empire
What happens when homeland has been a large empire and must be reconfigured into a ‘mere’ multinational state or smaller imperium? How are identities reconstructed to reflect empires diminished in size? What part does nationalism play in providing meaningful new identities? These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Nationalisms Conceptually
No one questions the importance of nationalism in giving life to individual nations, securing them homelands, and affecting much of international politics. 1 Investigating what the term actually means has generated an enormous body of scholarship over the past century. Defining nationalism is problematic for two general reasons. First, there is such a variety and large number of theories concerned with nationalism. Second, the concept is closely …
Liberal and Illiberal Nationalisms
How people construct their idea of home influences the types of nationalisms that emerge in various parts of the world. These nationalisms can be inclusive or exclusionary, tolerant or intolerant, pea
National Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe
Creating Parliamentary Government: The Transition to Democracy in Bulgaria . Albert P. Melone
Nations and language‐building: Old theories, contemporary cases
Recent scholarship has revealed many different understandings of nations, nationalism and national minorities. Language as a marker of national identity is usually acknowledged, but only occasionally has it been the subject of empirical analysis. This article makes the case for grounding analysis of nations and nationalism in the language spoken by a group. After reviewing posited linkages between nations and language, it examines contrasting cas…
Book rviews
Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism. London: Sage, 1995. Pp.vii + 200. $65 (hbk) ISBN 0 8039 7524 4, $21.95 (pbk) 0 8039 7525 2. John Bodnar (ed), Bonds of Affection: Americans Define their Patriotism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp.viii + 352. $55 (hbk) ISBN 0691 04397 3, (pbk) ISBN 0–691–04396–5 Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Post‐colonial Histories. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, …
Poland’s Path From Civil Society to Consolidated Democracy: One Step Forward, One Step Back
ResumeLe point de départ de cet article est de voir comment la démocratie est reliée à une société civile construite anciennement. Tout d’abord, on observe comment les dissidents politiques considéraient que la naissance d’une société civile pendant la période communiste était une ressource qui pourrait être utilisée pour briser le monopole du pouvoir des communistes et pour produire un plus grand pluralisme. Ensuite, on évalue les efforts faits …
The End of the Walesa Era in Poland
Essay| March 01 1996 The End of the Walesa Era in Poland Ray Taras Ray Taras Ray Taras teaches political science at Tulane University. He is the author of Consolidating Democracy in Poland (Boulder; Colo.: Westview, 1995). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1996) 95 (599): 124–128. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1996.95.599.124 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Sup…
Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States
Consolidating democracy in Poland
Official etiologies of polish crises: Changing historiographies and factional struggles
(1986). Official etiologies of polish crises: Changing historiographies and factional struggles. Soviet Studies: Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 53-68
Ideology in a Socialist State: Poland, 1956-1983
Solidarité: Analyse d'un mouvement social, Pologne 1980–1981Alain Touraine Paris: Fayard, 1982, 309 p
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Polish Sociology and the Base-Superstructure Debate
Peer Reviewed
Translator’s Note by Ray Taras
Poland's Diplomatic Misadventure in Iraq: With Us or Against Us
(2004). Poland's Diplomatic Misadventure in Iraq: WITH US OR AGAINST US. Problems of Post-Communism: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 3-17
Ukraine's transnationals, far‐away locals and xenophobes: The prospects for Europeanness
Nations and language‐building: Old theories, contemporary cases
Recent scholarship has revealed many different understandings of nations, nationalism and national minorities. Language as a marker of national identity is usually acknowledged, but only occasionally has it been the subject of empirical analysis. This article makes the case for grounding analysis of nations and nationalism in the language spoken by a group. After reviewing posited linkages between nations and language, it examines contrasting cas…
Poland’s Path From Civil Society to Consolidated Democracy: One Step Forward, One Step Back
ResumeLe point de départ de cet article est de voir comment la démocratie est reliée à une société civile construite anciennement. Tout d’abord, on observe comment les dissidents politiques considéraient que la naissance d’une société civile pendant la période communiste était une ressource qui pourrait être utilisée pour briser le monopole du pouvoir des communistes et pour produire un plus grand pluralisme. Ensuite, on évalue les efforts faits …
Democratic Centralism and Polish Local Government Reforms
The Local Political Élites
In this chapter we shall turn the focus from the study of social groups to the interaction of these groups in the local community. A fuller study of local People’s Councils will follow in another volume of this series which is being prepared at Birmingham University, 1 here we intend to indicate in an introductory way the extent to which social groupings participate in local affairs and also to describe the social characteristics of members of th…
Democratic Centralism and Polish Local Government Reforms
Polish Sociology and the Base-Superstructure Debate
Peer Reviewed
Translator’s Note by Ray Taras
Solidarité: Analyse d'un mouvement social, Pologne 1980–1981Alain Touraine Paris: Fayard, 1982, 309 p
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ideology in a Socialist State: Poland, 1956-1983
Official etiologies of polish crises: Changing historiographies and factional struggles
(1986). Official etiologies of polish crises: Changing historiographies and factional struggles. Soviet Studies: Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 53-68
Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States
Consolidating democracy in Poland
The End of the Walesa Era in Poland
Essay| March 01 1996 The End of the Walesa Era in Poland Ray Taras Ray Taras Ray Taras teaches political science at Tulane University. He is the author of Consolidating Democracy in Poland (Boulder; Colo.: Westview, 1995). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1996) 95 (599): 124–128. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1996.95.599.124 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Sup…
Book rviews
Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism. London: Sage, 1995. Pp.vii + 200. $65 (hbk) ISBN 0 8039 7524 4, $21.95 (pbk) 0 8039 7525 2. John Bodnar (ed), Bonds of Affection: Americans Define their Patriotism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp.viii + 352. $55 (hbk) ISBN 0691 04397 3, (pbk) ISBN 0–691–04396–5 Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Post‐colonial Histories. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, …
Poland’s Path From Civil Society to Consolidated Democracy: One Step Forward, One Step Back
ResumeLe point de départ de cet article est de voir comment la démocratie est reliée à une société civile construite anciennement. Tout d’abord, on observe comment les dissidents politiques considéraient que la naissance d’une société civile pendant la période communiste était une ressource qui pourrait être utilisée pour briser le monopole du pouvoir des communistes et pour produire un plus grand pluralisme. Ensuite, on évalue les efforts faits …
Nations and language‐building: Old theories, contemporary cases
Recent scholarship has revealed many different understandings of nations, nationalism and national minorities. Language as a marker of national identity is usually acknowledged, but only occasionally has it been the subject of empirical analysis. This article makes the case for grounding analysis of nations and nationalism in the language spoken by a group. After reviewing posited linkages between nations and language, it examines contrasting cas…
Creating Parliamentary Government: The Transition to Democracy in Bulgaria . Albert P. Melone
National Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe
Home Writ Large: Nationalism and the Maintenance of Empire
What happens when homeland has been a large empire and must be reconfigured into a ‘mere’ multinational state or smaller imperium? How are identities reconstructed to reflect empires diminished in size? What part does nationalism play in providing meaningful new identities? These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Nationalisms Conceptually
No one questions the importance of nationalism in giving life to individual nations, securing them homelands, and affecting much of international politics. 1 Investigating what the term actually means has generated an enormous body of scholarship over the past century. Defining nationalism is problematic for two general reasons. First, there is such a variety and large number of theories concerned with nationalism. Second, the concept is closely …
Liberal and Illiberal Nationalisms
How people construct their idea of home influences the types of nationalisms that emerge in various parts of the world. These nationalisms can be inclusive or exclusionary, tolerant or intolerant, pea
Poland's Diplomatic Misadventure in Iraq: With Us or Against Us
(2004). Poland's Diplomatic Misadventure in Iraq: WITH US OR AGAINST US. Problems of Post-Communism: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 3-17
Ukraine's transnationals, far‐away locals and xenophobes: The prospects for Europeanness
Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment by Erin K. Jenne
Journal Article Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment by Erin K. Jenne Get access Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowermentby Erin K. Jenne. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2007. 273 pp. $45.00. Ray Taras Ray Taras Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 123, Issue 2, Summer 2008, Pages 342–343, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538…
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
H to him. But turning away from the ^^^^H integral relationships and meshing ^^^^B of stories promised by the frames ^^^^H does not necessarily lead to coherent ^^^^B structure.The pieces are inplace and ^^^^B thereare links,but theoverall effect ^^^^B ismore like an arrangement of dif ^^^^B ferentepisodes than a series united ^^^^B by themes and anxieties. ^HjH W.M. H?gen ^HBH Oklahoma BaptistUniversity JosephBoyden.Through Black Spruce. Toronto…
The Surveillance State Bigger, Braver New World
notebook 6 worldliteraturetoday.org What distinguishes the modern surveillance-and-control state from its predecessors is technodeterminism : the use of algorithms, not human beings, to monitor and shape citizens’ attitudes and behavior. A grotesque example of a primitive political order enslaving its subjects is found in Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov’s 1980 novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years. He retold the legend of the mankurts—pris…
Manichean Taxis and Murderous Readers: A Conversation with Rawi Hage
12 worldliteraturetoday.org photo: Madeleine Thien WLT Interview Manichean Taxis and Murderous Readers A Conversation with Rawi Hage Ray Taras July–August 2013 • 13 Ray Taras: Your writings diagnose a variety of problems plaguing contemporary societies. In Carnival, the role of circus people is to entertain the public, maybe even to distract them from really important issues—in a way similar to the bread and circuses Roman emperors offered up in …
Kraków, Poland: Books Abound 25 Years after Communism
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (14 works) · History (12 works) · Art (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (7 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (6 works)