R Tzanelli
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 41876 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Tzanelli |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Tzanelli |
| ASSINATURA | TZANELLI R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5765-9856 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 124 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Life in the age of extremes
The introduction maps the trajectory of this Special Issue’s key concepts, beginning with the theoretical embeddedness of biopolitics in contexts of crisis. Taking Hannah Arendt’s critical biopolitical reflections as a starting point, the article explores how, in more recent years, different schools of critical thought have approached the governance and protection of various human and nonhuman lifeforms. These evolving axiologies of life have exp…
Interview with Chris Taylor
The present contribution comprises an interview with Professor Chris Taylor in his capacity as one the curators of the exhibition Enfolded Journeys . Enfolded Journeys is conceived of as a touring exhibition and themed on narratives of voluntary and involuntary mobility (travel, displacement, geographies of belonging and migration). The exhibition displays 28 new artists’ books from different parts of the world, some of which are illustrated and …
Worldmaking & Worldmakers
In this article, we provide a comprehensive genealogy of Keith Hollinshead’s thesis of “worldmaking” in tourism, as this appeared and developed in his individual and collaboratively published work (S1). We then proceed to present some research that was influenced by this thesis in critical tourism analysis and in cognate areas (S2). Our discussion in these two sections (S1 & S2) allows us to identify the presence of “worldmakers” in tourism analy…
Keith’s Contrapuntal and Arpeggio Compositions Are More Than Fun to Read
Not Tourism Worldmaking
Hollinshead proclaimed tourism worldmaking as the creative/imaginative and often false/faux processes that management agencies and mediating bodies use to favor particular representations of places and people. While this remains valid at an organizational level, the COVID-19 pandemic has radically (and maybe also hopefully ) changed the very regimes of sensory apprehension on which tourism is based, thus also suggesting that we rethink the worldm…
Entangling with Keith Hollinshead’s Work
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Interview with Chris Taylor, curator of Shifting Borders
Shifting Borders exhibits ‘traces’ of human mobility across millennia: of exploratory journeys, forced migrations, exilic arrivals at foreign lands and artistic schematizations of them based on memory and experience. The traces assume the form of maps, passports, photographs of people and locations, as well as actual diaries of movement produced by those who move or by institutions who regulate their movements. Crafted as a form of pilgrimage to …
Economies of attention and the design of viable tourism futures
The present article focuses on three dominant forms of crisis in the twenty-first century (terrorism, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic) that challenge tourism as a viable activity and sector. Through epistemological/methodological blends of compatible arguments from the sociology of knowledge (Karl Mannheim's notion of world-vision or Weltanschauung, which emphasises planetary ways of knowing), the new mobilities paradigm (Sheller's sugge…
Biopolitics in critical tourism theory
The article reviews the uses of the concept of biopolitics in critical tourism studies. After a brief genealogical account of the concept in political philosophy, it follows its transposition and its thematic applications in tourism theory and practice. It is argued that biopolitics is only one of the three key domains of ‘human interests’, which must be subjected to a radical critique in tourism studies and practice. Such critique should be entw…
La biopolitique dans la théorie critique du tourisme
L’article discute des utilisations du concept de biopolitique dans les études critiques sur le tourisme. Après un bref exposé généalogique du concept en philosophie politique, il suit sa transposition et ses applications thématiques dans la théorie et la pratique du tourisme. L’auteur affirme que la biopolitique n’est qu’un des trois domaines clés des ‘intérêts humains’ qui doivent faire l’objet d’une critique radicale dans les études et les prat…
Interscopic fan travelscape
Contrary to the common compartmentalization of popular culture and events to specialized forms of fandom-induced tourism (e.g. film-, music-, sport-tourism), event-tourism spaces may also derive from blending different genres that enable symbiotic effects, for example, between sport and art. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of how event-tourism is interwoven and merged with sporting and cinematic popular culture, thereby creating a comp…
Eco-Aesthetics and Climate Change
Environmental sustainability and ecological aesthetics experience a turbulent affair when academic language is replaced by an artistic register: can we articulate contemporary crises stemming from uncontrolled mobilities, such as hyper-consumption, hyper-automobilities, and technological pollution, better by replacing sociological analysis with affective poetic language? The following poem (unpublished but belonging to the theme of Altermoderniti…
“Post-viral tourism’s antagonistic tourist imaginaries”
Purpose This paper aims to examine the antagonistic coexistence of different tourism imaginaries in global post-viral social landscapes. Such antagonisms may be resolved at the expense of the ethics of tourism mobility, if not adjudicated by post-human reflexivity. Currently, unreflexive behaviours involve the refusal to conform to lifesaving “stay-at-home” policies, the tendency to book holidays and the public inspection of death zones. Design/m…
Tourism worldmaking and market post-truth
The article develops a theoretical framework for the critical examination of cinematic tourist design. Considering ‘film-induced tourism’ as part of a bigger system involving the design of mobilities, it interrogates the connection between the aesthetic and ethical principles that end up informing the engineering of national hospitality in media platforms. The design, which is managed by a ‘worldmaking authority’ or network encompassing the host …
Underwater
A unique exhibition was held between 19 and 22 September 2018 in the deep blue waters of Amorgos, Greece.1 Amorgos is the easternmost of the Cyclades islands, neighboring the Dodecanese island group. The island's rich aquatic life and architectural beauty featured prominently in French director Luc Besson's internationally acclaimed English-language film on freediving, The Big Blue ( Le Grand Bleu , 1988), transforming the island into an internat…
Introduction
In our introduction to the special issue we attempt to reflect on the plurality and development of critical argumentation in tourism analysis. First, we adopt a "genealogical" approach to the parallel birth of critical thinking in early 20th century European social sciences and critical–institutional elaboration of the "tourist" and "tourism" as contemporary phenomena. These interlaced histories of social thought are examined as "attitudes" towar…
Virtual Pilgrimage
In this reflective essay I revise the relationship between travel as an embodied secular journey and pilgrimage as a sacred ritual via examinations of websurfing as a form of virtual pilgrimage. My main premise is that virtual travel facilitated by the internet and through various digital platforms and collaborative social media should be considered as a novel secular form of metamovement we can approach as a pilgrimage. This pilgrimage produces …
Atmospheres of the inhospitable in staged kidnappings
This article explores the paradoxical staging of experiences of “inhospitality,” taking shape as commercialised opportunities for individuals, willing to be voluntarily subjected to kidnapping. Such “extreme” leisure is facilitated by companies specialising in simulated captivities of clients. These simulations, which blend forms of performance with practices of violence, are situated theoretically within a revised iteration of Benjamin Barber’s …
Unpopular Culture
The article deconstructs media-induced tourist development’s relationship with “sustainability,” “ecology” and the “popular”. I highlight the interconnected, but often competing interpretations of “ecology” as interactions among technics (representational regimes), technological regimes and institutions (media, tourism), social agents (media/tourism experts, fan tourists and their hosts), and the natural and built environment in which these take …
Slum Tourism
In this review article, Rodanthi Tzanelli notes that (today) "slum," "favela," or "township" tourism (i.e., visitations to urban sites of squalor and poverty for leisure, education, or philanthropy) has evolved into a mobility trend worthy of dedicated study by tourism scholars. She signposts relevant contemporary studies and arguments on the subject by focusing upon the ways in which slum tourist "motivations" are structured socially and cultura…
Schematising hospitality
The article provides a holistic appraisal of activist-artist Ai WeiWei’s work. It argues that, despite its topical innovations and evolution, it continues to be informed by narratives of ‘hospitality’ as an experiential form of engagement with variations of otherness (father, migrant, tourist and refugee). Dividing Ai’s artwork into two overlapping phases of development (national and international/global), it considers the artist’s construction o…
Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination
Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts. Atmosphere connects to social imaginaries, utopian representational frames producing the culture of a city or country. But who resolves atmospheric contradictions in a place’s social and cultural rhythms, when the eyes of the world are turned on it? Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination examines ephemeral and solidified atmospheres i…
Gellner, Ernest (1925–1995)
Ern(e)st André Gellner was as one of the most renowned twentieth‐century intellectuals. His thought contributed to such diverse fields as philosophy, politics, sociology, history, and anthropology. He was born in Paris in 1925 of Czech Jewish parentage, and grew up in Masaryk's Prague, when the city still acted as central Europe's intellectual capital. In 1939, with the resurgence of anti‐Semitism in central Europe, he moved to England, where he …
Gift
The concept of the gift and the act through which it enters social life (giving) have been central to conceptualizations of public and private human relations at least since Marcel Mauss's publication of Essai sur le don ( The Gift ) in 1925. Both the gift and giving relations enriched interdisciplinary inquiry, highlighting weaknesses and synthesizing the strengths of economics, sociology, philosophy, literary criticism, and general theory. Maus…
Rite of Passage
The term “rite of passage” was first used in anthropology to encapsulate rituals that symbolize the transition of an individual or a group from one status to another, or to denote the passage of calendrical time, but it was soon embraced by social scientists from other disciplines. The concept was developed by the Durkheimian anthropologist Arnold van Gennep in The Rites of Passage (1960), in which he identified three ritual phases: (1) separatio…
Constructing the 'cinematic tourist
The article examines the relationship between the culture (film) and tourist industries, suggesting that we reconsider the validity of their analytical differentiation. Contextually, it focuses on the generation of a new tourist industry in New Zealand after the global success of the cinematic 'trilogy' The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) (dir. Peter Jackson). It is argued that the LOTR tourist industry is characterized by simulation of a fantasy to suc…
Not My Flag!’ Citizenship and nationhood in the margins of Europe (Greece, October 2000/2003)
This article critically examines the generation of discourses on Greek identity following an episode that took place in northern Greece (2000/2003) when an Albanian student was elected flag-carrier in a commemorative parade. Three versions of Greek identity emerged in this context: the first was based on civic understandings of identity, promoting the current Europeanist project of citizenship as belonging. The second version drew upon the notion…
Tourism in the European economic crisis
The article interrogates the rationale and origins of changing imaginaries of tourism in Greece in the context of the current economic crisis. We detect a radical change in the ‘picture’ of the country that circulates in global media conduits (YouTube, Facebook, official press websites and personal blogs). We enact a journey into past media representations of Greece as an idyllic peasant and working-class site, but proceed to highlight that such …
Casting' the Neohellenic `Other
The present article explores Hollywood narrations of Neohellenic and Mediterranean identity through a relatively recent film adaptation of Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières. It also looks at film reviews and other texts to reflect critically on its reception by an international audience, and its relationship with the tourist industry. The theoretical trajectory of the analysis comprises a combination of Marxist theory and cultural …
Con me if you can’
This article deals with current re-dramatizations of crime and popular criminologies. It analyses key elements of the popular criminological imaginaries underpinning a recent and highly successful film— Catch Me If You Can—in order to tease out the discursive, mythical and fabulist techniques by which it communicates particular imaginations of crime. Additionally, the article offers some conceptual and analytical anchors for interpreting filmwork…
Schematising hospitality
The article provides a holistic appraisal of activist-artist Ai WeiWei’s work. It argues that, despite its topical innovations and evolution, it continues to be informed by narratives of ‘hospitality’ as an experiential form of engagement with variations of otherness (father, migrant, tourist and refugee). Dividing Ai’s artwork into two overlapping phases of development (national and international/global), it considers the artist’s construction o…
Impossible is a fact’
This article explores the ways in which the ‘nation’ is discussed in the press. Theoretically, it argues that the national ‘self’ emerges through dialogue with ‘others’. Reconsidering Anderson's argument, it suggests that national identity is often the product of international recognition that enables the national community to ‘imagine’ itself. Contextually, it looks at Greek newspaper commentary following the victory of the Greek football team i…
Capitalizing on Value
Kidnapping is a crime that has not received due attention in sociological literature. Policy and risk assessment milieux discursively construct it as a 'threat to society', and administrative studies have focused on classifications that describe the phenomenon. The most widespread typology of kidnapping incidents takes as a starting point criminal motivation, producing a bipolar analysis of the crime as economic or political. This article re-exam…
Reel Western Fantasies
This is a study of the phenomenon of ‘cinematic tourism’ through The Beach (2000 The Beach (1999–2000) available at: www.thebeachmovie.com (accessed 7 March 2005). [Google Scholar]), a cinematic adaptation of a novel that satirises the Western search for experiential authenticity through travel. It is argued that the film replicates this quest for ‘authenticity’; international responses to it point in the same direction. The study explores how Th…
Unclaimed Colonies
This paper examines the Anglo-Greek dialogue on Greek and British European identities following the Dilessi/Marathon Murders, a case of kidnapping and murder of three upper class Britons by Greek brigands, which became the European cause célèbre of the 1870s. It focuses on British and Greek narratives of brigandage and uses them to provide some insight into the ways both sides conceptualised modernity. The uses of the Greek, Irish and Scottish pa…
Interscopic fan travelscape
Contrary to the common compartmentalization of popular culture and events to specialized forms of fandom-induced tourism (e.g. film-, music-, sport-tourism), event-tourism spaces may also derive from blending different genres that enable symbiotic effects, for example, between sport and art. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of how event-tourism is interwoven and merged with sporting and cinematic popular culture, thereby creating a comp…
The nation has two `voices
This article explores the contemporary conditions of national self-presentation, inviting students of national identity to reconsider the nature of national self-narration through new conceptual tools. It is argued that contemporary nations have two `voices': one is addressed to their members, another speaks to the nation's external interlocutors. Both voices contribute to the performance of identity: for nations which are the product of colonial…
Kill-n-tell (& all that jazz)
This article uses the lens of cultural criminology to explore representations of the seductions of crime (Katz, 1988) in Hollywood cinema. We use a specific film - Chicago(Miramax Films, 2002) - to investigate the cultural embeddedness of the emotional and sensual parameters that are said to constitute the foreground of criminal activity. We suggest that the stated aim of cultural criminology - to connect the phenomenal foreground of criminal act…
Tourism worldmaking and market post-truth
The article develops a theoretical framework for the critical examination of cinematic tourist design. Considering ‘film-induced tourism’ as part of a bigger system involving the design of mobilities, it interrogates the connection between the aesthetic and ethical principles that end up informing the engineering of national hospitality in media platforms. The design, which is managed by a ‘worldmaking authority’ or network encompassing the host …
Domesticating Sweet Sadness
The article examines Anatolítika glykà (Asia Minor sweets) and the craft of zacharoplastikí (sweet making) in Thessaloniki, Greece's main northern city. The continuum between sweet makers and product explicates the development of zacharoplastikí-originally a colonial occupation, later a feminine craft of the domestic hearth-to a modern profession. Thessalonikiote sweet making and glykà develop as a travel narrative by obscuring their Eastern asso…
Experiments on puerile nations, or the impossibility of surpassing your father
This article is concerned with the dialogic construction of Greek national and British imperial identities. It examines the gendered language in which the Greeks and the British addressed each other in the 1860s and the 1870s. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, anthropology, studies of nationalism and post-colonial theory, it looks at the symbolic structure of Anglo-Greek cultural exchange. In this analysis, it is argued that the familial imager…
Giving gifts (and then taking them back)
The paper identifies discursive tropes that informed the official Greek rhetoric of the Athens Olympiad. It is argued that in order to understand these tropes, which place emphasis on the Olympics as an aspect of Neohellenic heritage, we must re‐consider the impact the Orientalist movement had on the formation of a distinctively modern Greek identity. The version of Orientalism that informed the Greek rhetoric was based on the Eurocentric belief …
Disciplining’ the Neohellenic Character
The article examines the development of anthropological discourse in British travel accounts of modern Greece, and the Greek response. The study has several aims. First, it argues that in British travel accounts ethnographic remarks are encountered which point to a genealogy of the British discipline of anthropology. These remarks on the modern Greek character formulated problÈmatiquesin which history and ethnography, as well as Romanticism and E…
Economies of attention and the design of viable tourism futures
The present article focuses on three dominant forms of crisis in the twenty-first century (terrorism, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic) that challenge tourism as a viable activity and sector. Through epistemological/methodological blends of compatible arguments from the sociology of knowledge (Karl Mannheim's notion of world-vision or Weltanschauung, which emphasises planetary ways of knowing), the new mobilities paradigm (Sheller's sugge…
Unpopular Culture
The article deconstructs media-induced tourist development’s relationship with “sustainability,” “ecology” and the “popular”. I highlight the interconnected, but often competing interpretations of “ecology” as interactions among technics (representational regimes), technological regimes and institutions (media, tourism), social agents (media/tourism experts, fan tourists and their hosts), and the natural and built environment in which these take …
Breaking Bad , Making Good
This article explores emerging intersections between the consumption of mediated popular culture and the real and imagined topographies within which those representations are framed. Through an examination of the ‘televisual tourism’ centred around the successful TV series Breaking Bad, we scrutinise the multiple modes of sensorial and embodied travel experience enjoyed by fans of the show as they consume their way around the show’s sites, scenes…
Domesticating the tourist gaze in Thessaloniki's Prigipos
The article examines how Prigipos, a café in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, communicates Greek cosmological themes through the way it 'stages' urban memories. The staging suggests an 'Oriental' tourist-like flânerie that matches, and is directed towards, the café's physical and symbolic surroundings (notably, the Turkish Consulate, the adjacent paternal house of Turkey's first President, Kemal Atatürk, but also the old part of the city,…
The Spectacle of Fearsome Acts
Europe' within and without Narratives of American cultural belonging in and throughMy Big Fat Greek Wedding(2002)
This article examines My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), a Hollywood romantic comedy in which Greek-Americanness features for the first time. Three tropes are debated that are linked to American social and national self-narration: the first is concerned with the assertion of Greek difference within American identity. The second examines the WASP cultural norm which is simultaneously valorized and contested. The third trope, which comprises a strate…
Unclaimed Colonies
This paper examines the Anglo-Greek dialogue on Greek and British European identities following the Dilessi/Marathon Murders, a case of kidnapping and murder of three upper class Britons by Greek brigands, which became the European cause célèbre of the 1870s. It focuses on British and Greek narratives of brigandage and uses them to provide some insight into the ways both sides conceptualised modernity. The uses of the Greek, Irish and Scottish pa…
Disciplining’ the Neohellenic Character
The article examines the development of anthropological discourse in British travel accounts of modern Greece, and the Greek response. The study has several aims. First, it argues that in British travel accounts ethnographic remarks are encountered which point to a genealogy of the British discipline of anthropology. These remarks on the modern Greek character formulated problÈmatiquesin which history and ethnography, as well as Romanticism and E…
Casting' the Neohellenic `Other
The present article explores Hollywood narrations of Neohellenic and Mediterranean identity through a relatively recent film adaptation of Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières. It also looks at film reviews and other texts to reflect critically on its reception by an international audience, and its relationship with the tourist industry. The theoretical trajectory of the analysis comprises a combination of Marxist theory and cultural …
Experiments on puerile nations, or the impossibility of surpassing your father
This article is concerned with the dialogic construction of Greek national and British imperial identities. It examines the gendered language in which the Greeks and the British addressed each other in the 1860s and the 1870s. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, anthropology, studies of nationalism and post-colonial theory, it looks at the symbolic structure of Anglo-Greek cultural exchange. In this analysis, it is argued that the familial imager…
Con me if you can’
This article deals with current re-dramatizations of crime and popular criminologies. It analyses key elements of the popular criminological imaginaries underpinning a recent and highly successful film— Catch Me If You Can—in order to tease out the discursive, mythical and fabulist techniques by which it communicates particular imaginations of crime. Additionally, the article offers some conceptual and analytical anchors for interpreting filmwork…
Constructing the 'cinematic tourist
The article examines the relationship between the culture (film) and tourist industries, suggesting that we reconsider the validity of their analytical differentiation. Contextually, it focuses on the generation of a new tourist industry in New Zealand after the global success of the cinematic 'trilogy' The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) (dir. Peter Jackson). It is argued that the LOTR tourist industry is characterized by simulation of a fantasy to suc…
Europe' within and without Narratives of American cultural belonging in and throughMy Big Fat Greek Wedding(2002)
This article examines My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), a Hollywood romantic comedy in which Greek-Americanness features for the first time. Three tropes are debated that are linked to American social and national self-narration: the first is concerned with the assertion of Greek difference within American identity. The second examines the WASP cultural norm which is simultaneously valorized and contested. The third trope, which comprises a strate…
Giving gifts (and then taking them back)
The paper identifies discursive tropes that informed the official Greek rhetoric of the Athens Olympiad. It is argued that in order to understand these tropes, which place emphasis on the Olympics as an aspect of Neohellenic heritage, we must re‐consider the impact the Orientalist movement had on the formation of a distinctively modern Greek identity. The version of Orientalism that informed the Greek rhetoric was based on the Eurocentric belief …
Kill-n-tell (& all that jazz)
This article uses the lens of cultural criminology to explore representations of the seductions of crime (Katz, 1988) in Hollywood cinema. We use a specific film - Chicago(Miramax Films, 2002) - to investigate the cultural embeddedness of the emotional and sensual parameters that are said to constitute the foreground of criminal activity. We suggest that the stated aim of cultural criminology - to connect the phenomenal foreground of criminal act…
The Spectacle of Fearsome Acts
Impossible is a fact’
This article explores the ways in which the ‘nation’ is discussed in the press. Theoretically, it argues that the national ‘self’ emerges through dialogue with ‘others’. Reconsidering Anderson's argument, it suggests that national identity is often the product of international recognition that enables the national community to ‘imagine’ itself. Contextually, it looks at Greek newspaper commentary following the victory of the Greek football team i…
Not My Flag!’ Citizenship and nationhood in the margins of Europe (Greece, October 2000/2003)
This article critically examines the generation of discourses on Greek identity following an episode that took place in northern Greece (2000/2003) when an Albanian student was elected flag-carrier in a commemorative parade. Three versions of Greek identity emerged in this context: the first was based on civic understandings of identity, promoting the current Europeanist project of citizenship as belonging. The second version drew upon the notion…
Reel Western Fantasies
This is a study of the phenomenon of ‘cinematic tourism’ through The Beach (2000 The Beach (1999–2000) available at: www.thebeachmovie.com (accessed 7 March 2005). [Google Scholar]), a cinematic adaptation of a novel that satirises the Western search for experiential authenticity through travel. It is argued that the film replicates this quest for ‘authenticity’; international responses to it point in the same direction. The study explores how Th…
Capitalizing on Value
Kidnapping is a crime that has not received due attention in sociological literature. Policy and risk assessment milieux discursively construct it as a 'threat to society', and administrative studies have focused on classifications that describe the phenomenon. The most widespread typology of kidnapping incidents takes as a starting point criminal motivation, producing a bipolar analysis of the crime as economic or political. This article re-exam…
Rite of Passage
The term rite of passage was first used in anthropology to encapsulate rituals that symbolize the transition of an individual or a group from one status to another, or to denote the passage of calendrical time, but soon it was embraced in other disciplines. The concept was developed by the Durkheimian anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep in Les Rites de passage (1909), in which he explored the nature of ceremonies that mark personal or collective cha…
Gellner, Ernest (1925–1995)
Perhaps one of the most prolific scholars of the twentieth century, Ernest Gellner remains a highly influential figure across many disciplines (sociology, history, anthropology, and philosophy). He was born in Paris, but was of Czech Jewish parentage and he grew up in Czechoslovakia. In 1939, with the resurgence of anti‐Semitism in Central Europe, he moved to England, where he spent most of his life. During World War II he served in the Czechoslo…
Gift
The concept of the gift has been explored by anthropologists, philosophers, sociologists, and social theorists, who recognized in it a heuristic tool for the study of kinship relations, exchange and reciprocity, and interconnections of power, economics, and morality. In all these cases the gift can assume the form of tangibles (material items such as artifacts or human beings) and intangibles (ideas, religious rituals, or titles
The politics of ‘forgetting’ as poetics of belonging
The repressive mechanisms of collective memory have received due attention in the social sciences, with scholars examining the ethics of remembering and forgetting and their political implications. This study focuses on episodes that took place in a Northern Greek town in 2000 and 2003, when an Albanian student was twice denied the right to hold the Greek flag during a commemorative national parade. It is argued that this line of action against t…
Nation-Building and Identity in Europe
This book offers a provocative theorization of nationhood, focusing on the key role played by dialogic relations of hegemony, resistance and reciprocity in the birth of the modern European nation. The
Nation-Building and Identity in Europe
Unpaid Debts and Duties
Exploring myths of ethnic selection, Smith (1999, p. 125) stressed the historic survival of ethnies through any community’s ability to ‘ identify with some persisting memories, symbols, myths and traditions ’ ( ibid ., p. 128, emphasis in the text). Smith alludes to the national community’s self-election, without clarifying how this takes place — a question closely related to the disagreement between modernists and theorists who locate the nation…
Cultural Intimations and the Commodification of Culture
What does ‘globalization’ mean for those who allegedly stand at the ‘receiving end’ of its messages? Do they truly stand at its receiving end only – or, are they partaking in it in covert ways? This paper proffers some theoretical reflections on the nature of new cultural industries and the interplay of local, national and global resistances that they induce. It singles out a specific case in which the contingent generation of interdependencies b…
The nation has two `voices
This article explores the contemporary conditions of national self-presentation, inviting students of national identity to reconsider the nature of national self-narration through new conceptual tools. It is argued that contemporary nations have two `voices': one is addressed to their members, another speaks to the nation's external interlocutors. Both voices contribute to the performance of identity: for nations which are the product of colonial…
Mediating cosmopolitanism
The article examines intertwined cosmopolitan and national narratives in the context of the Beijing 2008 Games. Through a discursive analysis of the opening and closing ceremonies it seeks to provide some insight into understandings of Chinese national identity as a ‘displaced’ agent in the ‘birth’ and ‘evolution’ of Western European civilisation, who returns to claim a central place in human history. The artistic production of such resentful dis…
Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe's 'Backwaters'
Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe’s ‘Backwaters’ reconsiders the definitional relationships of ‘national character’ and ‘national heritage’ in the context of Western industrial modernity. Taking as a case study the Greek islands of Skiathos and Skopelos which served as cinematic locations for the blockbuster Mamma Mia! (2008), the book explores how national identity - once shaped by political, cultural and religious practices - can now be reduced to …
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