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Is batik a symbol of the national identity in Indonesia? The birth and the transfiguration of Indonesian national costume This study investigates the national costume in Indonesia, especially one of its components – batik. Is batik a symbol of Indonesian national identity, or is it just a proof of domination of the Javanese culture? In this article, I explore the ways in which batik became a popular...
Branding Greenland as a form of expression of national identity?In the times of globalisation there is a tendency for countries to differentiate from others. More and more governments decide to launch professional nation branding campaigns in order to communicate to a broad public what a particular country has to offer as well as what values and images it wants to be associated with. Greenland is...
Rap as identity music: from the black ghetto to Polish pop-nationalismIn today’s world, cultural products, technologies, information and ideologies more and more permeate from one society to another, crossing all kinds of borders in the least expected way. Rap career is an illustration of this process. It was created in the late seventies and eighties of the twentieth century in New York ghettos and...
Religion, ideology and traditionalism in Japan from Meiji period. Introduction into the issueIn many ways reminiscent of the situation today, the end of the 19th century saw ethnically and religiously based political conflicts throughout the world. Within the context of global nation building the postulation of respective culturally indigenous traditions played a central role, a concept called “nativism”...
Nation against “the leftist.” Political categorizations of the reality in internet folkloreIn his well known essay “Left-wing” communism: an infantile disorder Lenin used the Russian term “levizna” to name a naïve strategy of West European communist parties. This term is usually translated as “Left-Wing” but it does not show its disregarding to West communist politics in Lenin’s eyes. In Polish there...
The frontiers of identity, and the identity of frontiersThe essay discusses the relationship between group identities (especially national) and the notion of territory and its symbolic significance in the creation of the idea of community. The author examines possible contexts that connect the frontiers of identity with the identities of national state borders, as well as ways in which these connections...
Myth and mythologization in ideology and politcs. The mythologization of Japanese identity in the Meiji periodIs myth a word or a thought? Searching for the etymological roots proves to show that it is both. However, does it really exhaust all the possible understandings of the myth and does it enable the grasp of its multiple usages? Answering those questions seems very important not only because...
The Crimean tatars – a nation or an ethnic minority: in search for a new way of national revivalThe Russian Empire, increasing its aggressive expansion to all sites of the world, conquered the Crimean Khanate in 1783. This Khanate was the only one of its kind link connecting the European (Christian) and Asian (Islamic) civilizations. It was the state of high multilateral culture with strong – in the...
A work of art – a link between the present and the past. History and patriotism in non-professional art In her article, the author discusses art of non-professional artists who shape the national identity in an original way. In the former professional art, the works which illustrated and uplifted history were very popular. This phenomenon is still present among folk, naive, intuitive artists, generally...
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