The dialectic of ruination and restoration
Reflections on the mahdī's mosque at Ti-n-Mal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20193008 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Doyle Hatt (0000-0002-4039-1005, University of Calgary, corresponding author), D G Hatt |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-162 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Cultures Organizations and Societies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1024-5286 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10245289708523493 |
| OpenAlex | W2013952988 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay contrasts two different modes of iconic appropriation and organizational symbolism, with reference to a single physical structure: on the one hand, that of a local folk society, seeking to define itself and preserve its distinctiveness as against the wider nation state of which it is a part; and, on the other hand, that of the nation-state itself, seeking to incorporate the diverse elements out of which it is constituted into a coherent synthesis. Both modes operate by selecting particular elements out of the material remains and recoding them within specific ideologies, although they go about their “symbolic work” in strikingly different ways, the one technologically passive and the other technologically proactive. Moreover, of these two appropriations, one (that of the nation) is hegemonic, in that it imposes itself and pre-empts the other. By reference to diverse historical examples, the discussion in the latter part of the paper attempts to elucidate the salient features of symbolic hegemony
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Dialectic · Epistemology · Hegemony · Ideology · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Salient · Sociology · The Symbolic · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Computer Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 1999 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |