Nations, National Narratives and Communities in the Asia-Pacific

Drums

Distortions, Rumours, Untruths, Misinformation, and Smears

Benjamin Ang, Shashi Jayakumar

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How Diasporic Peoples Maintain Their Identity in Multicultural Societies

Chinese, Africans, and Jews

Norman Vasu

How Diasporic Peoples Maintain Their Identity in Multicultural Societies : Chinese, Africans, and Jews

Multiracialism

Norman Vasu, Juhi Ahuja

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Diasporas in Multiculturalism

Managing Difference

Norman Vasu

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The Ties that Bind and Blind

A Report on Inter-racial and Inter-religious Relations in Singapore (2012)

Yolanda Chin, Norman Vasu, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. Centre of Excellence for National Security

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The Ties that Bind and Blind

A Report on Inter-racial and Inter-religious Relations in Singapore (2012)

Yolanda Chin

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Nations, National Narratives and Communities in the Asia-Pacific

Norman Vasu, Yolanda Chin, Jinyi Luo

Many states in the Asia Pacific region are not built around a single homogenous people, but rather include many large, varied, different national groups. This book explores how states in the region attempt to develop commonality and a nation and the difficulties that arise. It discusses the consequences which ensue when competing narratives clash, and examines the nature of resistance to dominant narratives which arise. It considers the problems in a wide range of countries in the region including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

Varieties of Nationalism

Communities, Narratives, Identities

Harris Mylonas, Maya Tudor

Nationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept, associated with democratic revolutions and public goods provision, but also with xenophobia, genocide, and wars. Moving beyond facile distinctions between 'good' and 'bad' nationalisms, the authors argue that nationalism is an empirically variegated ideology. Definitional disagreements, Eurocentric conceptualizations, and linear associations between ethnicity and nationalism have hampered our ability to synthesize insights. This Element proposes that nationalism can be broken down productively into parts based on three key questions: (1) Does a nation exist? (2) How do national narratives vary? (3) When do national narratives matter? The answers to these questions generate five dimensions along which nationalism varies: elite fragmentation and popular fragmentation of national communities; ascriptiveness and thickness of national narratives; and salience of national identities.

Nation State and Immigration

The Age of Population Movements

Professor Anita Shapira, Yedidia Z. Stern, Alexander Yakobson

For the last two centuries, the nation state has posed a formidable challenge to multinational empires. It has served as a base for modernisation, secularisation and democratisation -- and also for the formation of totalitarian regimes. Today, the nation state faces challenges from multiple directions. National minorities demand self-determination while religious forces challenge secular governments, and global migration movements undermine the cultural uniformity once considered essential for the formation and preservation of nation states. This is the third of a three-volume set (detailed below) which addresses key challenges facing the contemporary nation state from a global perspective but with special emphasis on the Middle East and Israel. Publication reflects research conducted under the auspices of The Israel Democracy Institute's "Nation State Project", which analyses Israel's complex reality in which a Jewish majority contends with an Arab minority, ultra-Orthodox religious forces reject the authority of the nation state, and an immigrant society exhibits substantial cultural and ethnic variance. Volume III explores the cultural, social and political effects of immigration on the contemporary nation state -- its character, cohesion, and possible future, as well as on contemporary liberal democracy. Contributions deal with such issues as different liberal approaches to the issue of immigration and immigrant integration, nation-building narratives and their implications for immigrants and minorities, citizenship tests and integration policy in the United States and in Europe, as well as Israel's Law of Return and the debate about it and other aspects of immigration policy.

Narrative and Nation

Literature and Identity

Mridula Acharya

Narrative and Nation: Literature and Identity explores how literature functions as witness to trauma, transformation, and the construction of national and cultural identities. The work examines how storytelling shapes understanding of historical events, social movements, and collective memory across diverse nations and cultures. Coverage includes literary representations of war, partition, displacement, and generational memory through narrative analysis. The book investigates how literature reflects and constructs national identity, examining postcolonial narratives, indigenous literature, and transnational perspectives. Topics address the relationship between narrative and collective trauma, memory work, and cultural resilience. Designed for literature students, scholars, and educators, this comprehensive work provides frameworks for analyzing how literature engages with nation, identity, and historical consciousness while exploring narrative's role in shaping cultural understanding. Research frameworks and analytical approaches support literary interpretation.

Narrating the Nation

Representations in History, Media and the Arts

Stefan Berger, Linas Eriksonas, Andrew Mycock

A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this volume, histories have not, of course, only been written by professional historians. Drawing on studies from a number of different European nation states, the contributors to this volume present a systematic exploration, of the representation of the national paradigm. In doing so, they contextualize the European experience in a more global framework by providing comparative perspectives on the national histories in the Far East and North America. As such, they expose the complex variables and diverse actors that lie behind the narration of a nation.

Towards Inclusive Societies

Psychological and Sociological Perspectives

Dharmendra Nath Tiwari

Towards Inclusive Societies: Psychological and Sociological Perspectives focuses on the importance of building inclusive societies and communities for global human welfare within psychological, social, political, and cultural realms. It discusses the engagement of psychology and other social science disciplines on the need for building both cultural sensitivity and interdisciplinary dialogue. The volume presents the issues and consequences of globalization and diversity in the social and psychological domains and their role in shaping the physical and mental health of people. It systematically examines the various parameters of inclusivity such as equality, equity, social identity, social stigma, and coexistence of differences in socio-cultural behaviour. The volume focuses on the developments towards building inclusive societies in the South Asian countries including, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal. It also highlights the challenges and possibilities in making social-psychological discourses more inclusive. This book will be of interest to students, teachers, and scholars of psychology, cultural psychology, gender psychology, social psychology, sociology, and political science and social work. It will also be useful for psychologists, sociologists, social scientists, social workers, political scientists, and Gandhian philosophers.