Sacred scholars, profane advocates intellectuals molding national consciousness in Greece

Karakasidou, Anastasia

doi:10.1080/1070289x.1994.9962494

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“…This continues to be the dominant perspective in the newly revived historiography, art history and archaeology of many Eastern European academics, including those of Greece (Karakasidou 1994;Niculescu forthcoming).…”

Section: Three Modes Of Methodological Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Modern history was largely written, up to the 1990s and, with notable exceptions such as Immanuel Wallerstein's (1974) or Eric Wolf's (1982) work, as a history of particular nation-states or of their relations to each other -often no longer with the obviously nationalist aim of legitimizing a particular nation-building project, as had been the case up to the Second Word War, but still deeply influenced by the methodological assumption that a particular nation would provide the constant unit of observation through all historical transformations, the 'thing' whose change history was supposed to describe. This continues to be the dominant perspective in the newly revived historiography, art history and archaeology of many Eastern European academics, including those of Greece (Karakasidou 1994;Niculescu forthcoming).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation–state building, migration and the social sciences

2002

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Methodological nationalism is understood as the assumption that the nation/state/society is the natural social and political form of the modern world. We distinguish three modes of methodological nationalism that have characterized mainstream social science, and then show how these have influenced research on migration. We discover parallels between nationalist thinking and the conceptualization of migration in postwar social sciences. In a historical tour d'horizon, we show that this mainstream concept has developed in close interaction with nation-state building processes in the West and the role that immigration and integration policies have played within them. The shift towards a study of 'transnational communities' -the last phase in this process -was more a consequence of an epistemic move away from methodological nationalism than of the appearance of new objects of observation. The article concludes by recommending new concepts for analysis that, on the one hand, are not coloured by methodological nationalism and, on the other hand, go beyond the fluidism of much contemporary social theory.After the first flurry of confusion about the nature and extent of contemporary processes of globalization, social scientists moved beyond rhetorical generalities about the decline of the nation-state and began to examine the ways in which nation-states are currently being reconfigured rather than demolished. That nation-states and nationalism are compatible with globalization was made all too obvious. We witnessed the flouring of nationalism and the restructuring of a whole range of new states in Eastern Europe along national lines in the midst of growing global interconnections. The concomitance of these processes provides us with an intellectual opening to think about the limitations of our conceptual apparatus. It has become easier to understand that it is because we have come to take for granted a world divided into discrete and autonomous nation-states that we see nation-state building and global interconnections as contradictory. The next step is to analyse how the concept of the nation-state has and still does influence past and current thinking in the social sciences, including our thinking about transnational migration.It is our aim in this article to move in this direction by exploring the intellectual potential of two hypotheses. We demonstrate that nation-state building processes have fundamentally shaped the ways immigration has been perceived and received. These perceptions have in turn influenced, though not completely determined, social science

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Section: Three Modes Of Methodological Nationalismmentioning

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Section: Three Modes Of Methodological Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation–state building, migration and the social sciences

2002

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“…As such, the organizational aspects of fields related to the ancient material culture in Greece are governed by a distinct set of mentalities regarding the fields' importance to the very existence of the state. Any cuts to services have a demonstrably different degree of significance in the eyes of the public than those in other European countries (Hamilakis 2012b;Hamilakis and Yalouri 1999;Karakasidou 1994). Given a long history of looting and transfer of antiquities to countries outside Greece, the state through its agencies is legally the sole entity tasked with heritage management.…”

Section: Cultural Heritage the De-secralization Of National Imaginarmentioning

confidence: 99%

Endangered Humanities at a Time of Crisis in the EU and Beyond: Shrinking, Downsize and The Itinerant Academic

Pappa¹

2016

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I am still convinced that our transmitting the message of ancient arts and civilisations to our age is of fundamental importance. To fulfil this task could not be easy in our civilisation in which the humanities are pushed into the margins but just therefore the role of out subject is indispensable for understanding our roots, identity and task. Moreover, I wish you pleasant adventure in the discovery of the unknown and never give up!

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“…The historical knowledge produced today in the Greek academic world and in public discourse is based on the concepts of ethnic group (ethnos) and race ( li) (Karakasidou, 1994). In this context, race is used in the sense of 'ethnic group', e.g.…”

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Teaching Preschoolers about Diversity: A view from Greece

Benincasa¹

2002

Journal of Education for Teaching

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This paper describes instances of teaching preschool children about diversity among human groups, as it has taken place in some kindergartens in a Greek town. The focus is on the categories used and on the way they are proposed, questioned, accepted, refused or legitimated by the teachers and pupils taking part in the interaction. The paper analyses eight reports written by trainee teachers in a preschool education department at a Greek university, which describe classroom activities and report classroom dialogues. Teaching relies on stereotypes and a strict classi cation of human kind into four races that the trainees defend against occasional attempts to 'defy' them on the part of the children. The paper contends that teacher training should include sensitising courses that provide perspectives on race, ethnicity, culture and nationality. Trainee teachers would thus have access to conceptual and linguistic resources more suitable for dealing with the topic of human diversity.

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Sacred scholars, profane advocates intellectuals molding national consciousness in Greece

Cited by 28 publications

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Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation–state building, migration and the social sciences

Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation–state building, migration and the social sciences

Endangered Humanities at a Time of Crisis in the EU and Beyond: Shrinking, Downsize and The Itinerant Academic

Teaching Preschoolers about Diversity: A view from Greece

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