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Record Nr.

UNINA9910420940703321

Autore

Giorgio Riello

Titolo

Seri-technics : historical silk technologies / / Dagmar Schäfer, Giorgio Riello, Luca Molà (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edition Open Access, 2020

Germany : , : Edition Open Access, , 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (96 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studies 13: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

At a time when the social and cultural importance of silk in the pre-modern global world is increasingly evident, this volume returns to the issue of technology and queries the ways in which actors determined the nature of silk by deploying, selecting, or pursuing certain set of technics, practices, or ideals (while dismissing or ignoring others). Drawing on the growing research on silk’s cultural, social, economic, and intellectual implications, these chapters provide a fresh look at how technical processes have been historically shaped to define the identity of silk. Calling the technical system that has generated ideas about silk a form of textile seri-technics, this volume presents historical case studies that, sampled from diverse cultural regions, exemplify major technological processes and practices of silk textile production. The contributions tackle five technical attributes and principles of action that have come to make- up historical seri-technics.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818103603321

Titolo

After civil war : division, reconstruction, and reconciliation in contemporary Europe / / edited by Bill Kissane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8122-9030-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century

Disciplina

303.6/90940904

Soggetti

Postwar reconstruction - Europe - History - 20th century

Civil war - Europe - History - 20th century

Reconciliation - Political aspects - Europe - History - 20th century

Nationalism - Europe - History - 20th century

Europe History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Legacy of the Civil War of 1918 in Finland -- Chapter 2. ‘‘A Nation Once Again’’? Electoral Competition and the Reconstruction of National Identity After the Irish Civil War, 1922–1923 -- Chapter 3. State, Nation, and Violence in Spanish Civil War Reconstruction -- Chapter 4. Enemies of the Nation – A Nation of Enemies: The Long Greek Civil War -- Chapter 5. Political Contention and the Reconstruction of Greek Identity in Cyprus, 1960–2003 -- Chapter 6. Under (Re)Construction: The State, the Production of Identity, and the Countryside in the Kurdistan Region in Turkey -- Chapter 7. Ethnicity Pays: The Political Economy of Post-conflict Nationalism in Bosnia- Herzegovina -- Chapter 8. Nationalism and Beyond: Memory and Identity in Postwar Kosovo/Kosova -- Chapter 9. Reconstruction Without Reconciliation: Is Northern Ireland a ‘‘Model’’? -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Civil war inevitably causes shifts in state boundaries, demographics, systems of rule, and the bases of legitimate authority—many of the markers of national identity. Yet a shared sense of nationhood is as



important to political reconciliation as the reconstruction of state institutions and economic security. After Civil War compares reconstruction projects in Bosnia, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, and Turkey in order to explore how former combatants and their supporters learn to coexist as one nation in the aftermath of ethnopolitical or ideological violence. After Civil War synthesizes research on civil wars, reconstruction, and nationalism to show how national identity is reconstructed over time in different cultural and socioeconomic contexts, in strong nation-states as well as those with a high level of international intervention. Chapters written by anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and sociologists examine the relationships between reconstruction and reconciliation, the development of new party systems after war, and how globalization affects the processes of peacebuilding. After Civil War thus provides a comprehensive, comparative perspective to a wide span of recent political history, showing post-conflict articulations of national identity can emerge in the long run within conducive institutional contexts. Contributors: Risto Alapuro, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Chares Demetriou, James Hughes, Joost Jongerden, Bill Kissane, Denisa Kostovicova, Michael Richards, Ruth Seifert, Riki van Boeschoten.