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Author: R. Bryan Christensen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 98
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The United States has conducted nation building in nearly every conflict in which it has been involved. Some of these endeavors were successful, such as Japan and Germany following World War II, while others were not. Although the reasons for success or failure are myriad, the author asks the following question: How important is it for the occupying force to understand the culture of the society that it occupies, and how can this understanding affect the outcome? Iraqi culture is radically different from U.S. culture and so it has become an easy scapegoat for any apparent lack of progress by U.S. forces in postwar operations. The lack of progress is attributed to a fundamental misunderstanding of Iraqi culture. However, successful nation building in a culture that is very distant from the United States is not without precedent. This work analyzes the U.S. occupation of Japan, a nation culturally distant from the United States, to determine what went right in that occupation and what lessons learned there can be applied to Iraq. The author also offers case studies conducted by RAND in which cultural understanding appeared to play a minor role in the final outcome.
Author: R. Bryan Christensen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 98
Book Description
The United States has conducted nation building in nearly every conflict in which it has been involved. Some of these endeavors were successful, such as Japan and Germany following World War II, while others were not. Although the reasons for success or failure are myriad, the author asks the following question: How important is it for the occupying force to understand the culture of the society that it occupies, and how can this understanding affect the outcome? Iraqi culture is radically different from U.S. culture and so it has become an easy scapegoat for any apparent lack of progress by U.S. forces in postwar operations. The lack of progress is attributed to a fundamental misunderstanding of Iraqi culture. However, successful nation building in a culture that is very distant from the United States is not without precedent. This work analyzes the U.S. occupation of Japan, a nation culturally distant from the United States, to determine what went right in that occupation and what lessons learned there can be applied to Iraq. The author also offers case studies conducted by RAND in which cultural understanding appeared to play a minor role in the final outcome.
Author: Rico Isaacs Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317090195 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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Nation-building as a process is never complete and issues related to identity, nation, state and regime-building are recurrent in the post-Soviet region. This comparative, inter-disciplinary volume explores how nation-building tools emerged and evolved over the last twenty years. Featuring in-depth case studies from countries throughout the post-Soviet space it compares various aspects of nation-building and identity formation projects. Approaching the issue from a variety of disciplines, and geographical areas, contributors illustrate chapter by chapter how different state and non-state actors utilise traditional instruments of nation-construction in new ways while also developing non-traditional tools and strategies to provide a contemporary account of how nation-formation efforts evolve and diverge.
Author: Eivind Å. Skille Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000599272 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 193
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This book investigates the social, political, and cultural dimensions of Indigenous sport and nation-building. Focusing on the Indigenous Sámi of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, it addresses how colonization variously impacts organizational arrangements and everyday sporting life in a modern world. Through detailed case data from the Norwegian side of Sápmi (the land of the Sámi), this book provides a critical and contemporary perspective of post-colonial influences and their impacts on sport. The study uses concepts of conventions, citizenship and communities, to examine the tenuous roles of Indigenous-based sport organizations and clubs towards the building of an Indigenous nation. The book further draws together international, national, and local Sámi experiences to address the communal and assimilative influences that sport brings for people in the North Calotte. Taken together, the book signals the importance of sport in future community development and the (re)emergence of Indigenous culture. Appealing to policy makers and scholars alike, the book will be of particular interest to researchers in sport sociology, Indigenous studies and post colonialism. It also provides essential insight for public officials and administrators of sport and/or Indigenous issues at various levels of public office. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author: Stein Rokkan Publisher: Clarendon Press ISBN: 0198280327 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 442
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Stein Rokkan was one of the leading social scientists of the post-war world. He was a prolific writer, yet nowhere is his contribution to social science - the conceptual and developmental map of Europe - presented in an integrated and systematic way. Stein Rokkan had plans to do this butdied before the work could be started. Drawing on Rokkan's published, unpublished, and translated writings, this book systematizes and integrates Rokkan's numerous writings in the way he wanted to do himself.
Author: Unesco Publisher: UNESCO ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 240
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How can cultural factors be integrated into development processes? Based on many well-known previous attempts, this book tries to systematize the interactions between cultures and development in order to identify the common methodological aspects of current experience.
Author: Richard Lorch Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470758813 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 418
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With accelerating change towards globalisation, the efficacy of design solutions not embedded within regional culture has been prone to failure - technically, socially and economically. Environmental problems and questions surrounding how to achieve a sustainable built environment are now posing urgent challenges to built environment practitioners and researcher. However, international cooperation in setting targets and standards as well as an increasing exchange of environmental information and practices present designers, clients and occupants with new problems that comprise local needs and the built environment. This book addresses the role regional culture play in the successful (or otherwise) process of exchanging and adapting environmental practices and standards in the built environment. Using the specific case of the design of environmentally sound buildings, the book identifies a number of issues from different perspectives: The conflict between regionally appropriate environmental building practices within a global technical and economic context. How human, social and cultural expectations limit technological advances and performance improvements. To what extent information on environmentally progressive buildings can be transferred across cultures without compromising regional and local practices. Which ideas travel successfully between regions – generic principles, specific ideas or specific solutions? How the idea of regional identity is being redefined as the process of globalisation both widens and accelerates.
Author: Martyn Hammersley Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3030229823 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 120
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While the term ‘culture’ has come to be very widely used in both popular and academic discourse, it has a variety of meanings, and the differences among these have not been given sufficient attention. This book explores these meanings, and identifies some of the problems associated with them, as well as examining the role that values should play in cultural analysis. The development of four, very different, conceptions of culture is traced from the nineteenth century onwards: a notion of aesthetic cultivation associated with Matthew Arnold; the evolutionary view of culture characteristic of nineteenth-century anthropology; the idea of diverse cultures characteristic of twentieth and twenty-first century anthropology; and a conception of culture as a process of situated meaning-making – found today across anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. These conceptions of culture are interrogated, and a reformulation of the concept is sketched. This book will be of interest to students and scholars across a variety of fields, including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and education.
Author: R. Bryan Christensen
Author: R. Bryan Christensen
Author: Rico Isaacs
Author: Eivind Å. Skille
Author: Stein Rokkan
Author: UNESCO
Author: Stein Rokkan
Author: Unesco
Author: Richard Lorch
Author: Ebun Clark
Author: Martyn Hammersley