Search results for "Making-of"

Ressenya a Vicente Lledó-Guillem, The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times. Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan…

2018

Ressenya a Vicente Lledo-Guillem, The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times. Cham, Switzerland, Palg rave Macmillan, 2018, 250 pp. ISBN: 978-3-319-72079-1. R eview  to  Vicente Lledo-Guillem, The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times. Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 250 pp. ISBN: 978-3-319-72079-1.

Rescaling the European State - The Making of Territory and the Rise of the Meso, by Michael Keating (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN 9780…

2015

FATHERS AND CHILDREN OF IVORIAN INDEPENDENCE: METAPHORS OF KINSHIP AND GENERATION IN THE MAKING OF A NATIONAL TIME

2015

I look at the image of a generation of youth as the vanguard force of an ongoing struggle for independence and a new nation on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Ivorian independence. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of Reinhart Koselleck, I explore the making of national time as layered temporality, with generations not succeeding each other but rather coexisting. My analysis of expressions and performances of ‘doing being youth’ helps in understanding how the label ‘youth’ is used to mark membership in or exclusion from a collective. I examine the process of how ‘youth’ is made into a meaningful marker and how and why political actors engage in performances of ‘being youth’…

Lope and the Creation of Contemporary Heroes: «La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de Córdoba» y «La nueva victoria del marqués de Santa Cruz»

2013

Lope defended the usefulness of history presented on stage, that is, theatre’s function of preserving and creating a collective memory. In the case of La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo and La nueva victoria del marqués de Santa Cruz, this playwright dramatized military events that took place immediately before the composition of these plays. In this article i will analyze the fundamental traits of those texts in relation to Lope’s desire to please his patrons and, at the same time, to participate in the making of a Spanish national identity, which intensified during the first years of king Philip IV’s reign through different media, among them painting and theatre. This paper ends reflecting …

The bureaucratic making of national culture in North-Western Ghana

2014

In this article I explore the making of national culture through bureaucratic routines in the Centre for National Culture in Wa, North-Western Ghana. I focus on an aspect of bureaucracy that is usually left aside: the productivity and creativity of bureaucratic routines. State, nation and culture are not fixed entities, but have to be constantly produced through processes of negotiation and meaning-making and through the continual reproduction of their boundaries and the categories that determine what is to be promoted or preserved. Bureaucratic routines and administrative processes are analysed as practices objectifying and nationalising culture and naturalising the boundaries and categori…

La investigación evaluativa en el siglo XXI: un instrumento para el desarrollo educativo y social cada vez más relevante

2016

Tras una amplia revisión de las recientes publicaciones alrededor del tema, se analiza y valora la actual situación de la investigación evaluativa, como instrumento estratégico para la toma de decisiones de desarrollo y mejora  de la sociedad y de la calidad de vida de los ciudadanos, en ámbitos diversos como la educación, la sanidad, la economía, la cultura, la protección social, las políticas públicas, etc. Se describe y fundamenta la identidad científica de la investigación evaluativa actual, incidiendo en su carácter transdisciplinar, en el auge de la evaluación de organizaciones e instituciones, en su apoyo en metodologías diversas y en la importancia de las estrategias participativas.…

Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park

2019

“Ark Encounter” is a creationist theme park in Kentucky, a “life-size” replica of Noah’s Ark, which aims to prove the biblical story true by materializing it in stunning detail. Opened in 2016, it ...

Marc Flandreau y Frédéric Zumer. The Making of Global Finance, 1880–1913. Paris: OECD, 2004. Pp. 144.

2005

Bearing gods in mind and culture

2011

Abstract Where do supernatural agents come from and why do they stay around? Within the biocultural study of religion one finds a growing tendency to answer these questions by weaving together two conceptual threads, which I will refer to as anthropomorphic promiscuity and sociographic prudery. Although descriptions of these theogonic (god-bearing) mechanisms can differ significantly, the theoretical pattern can be recognized in authors from a variety of disciplines. I illustrate this pattern using four books published in 2010: David Lewis-Williams's Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion, Pascal Boyer's The Fracture of an Illusion: Science and the Dissolution of Rel…

People who run African affairs: staffing and recruitment in the African Union Commission

2020

AbstractThis study contributes to the field of International Public Administration (IPA) and the emerging area of Informal International Relations (IIR) by examining the politics of staffing and recruitment of the African Union Commission (AUC). Although the AUC has become a major political player in international affairs, there is a dearth of knowledge about the civil servants who work for the AUC and who run this paramount pan-African executive body. To address the void, this paper draws on a survey of 137 AUC staff, archival studies and interviews to explore recruitment of AUC staff. Combining organisational theory and informality as analytical lenses, the study demonstrates that, first,…