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제 목: Everyday Nation Building: Creativity, Culture and Political Community in Senegal and Indonesia
연 사: Dennis Galvan 교수
(미국 Oregon 대학교 국제학과/정치학과)
일 시: 2010년 4월 8일(목) 오후 3:00-5:00
장 소: 한양대학교 대학원관 7층 화상회의실
주 최: 한양대학교 비교역사문화연구소 / HK 트랜스내셔널인문학 사업단
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강좌초록:
Everyday Nation Building is grounded on the idea that 19th century, Wilson-era, and postwar tools are not going to cut it as we try to make sense of new problems of culture, political inclusion and conflict. The end of big structural explanations demands a significant shift in how we look at the politics of state and nation, indeed politics in general. Recognizing that identities are fragmentary and highly flexible, we have much to learn from recent work on practice, performance and ordinary life to understand the nation and politics not as a kind of rat maze through which people run in predictable, patterned ways, but as an outgrowth of the everyday creativity and sense-making inherent in human existence.
This talk explores how nations are built and inclusion emerges in everyday practices and beliefs, in the humdrum of how ordinary people think of themselves and treat those who are not like them. It showcases two examples of how this
works. In most of Senegal, West Africa, and in a city-state in Central Java, Indonesia, people don’t simply imagine the nation, or fit into it as designed from above. They live it as part of the mundane regularities of ordinary existence. Look carefully in places like Senegal and Central Java at jokes, teasing, common fears, shared stories, who people date, who they call neighbor, what they eat, what they treasure, and you can begin to understand how Muslim and Christian, Wolof and Diola, Orang Jawa and totok Chinese become the same kind of people, part of one community of belonging.
연사약력:
Dennis Galvan is Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science, and is also Director of the International Studies Program at the University of Oregon. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1996. Galvan’s work focuses on "comparative analysis of development, the politics of cultural identity, competing forms and structures of legitimation and social mobilization, and the search for locally meaningful and sustainable models of social change in the so-called ‘third world’." His field research has been in West Africa and Indonesia and examines how ordinary non-Western peoples adapt markets, law, local government, and natural resource management systems when "traditional" cultures are incorporated into "modern" political and economic systems. His book on institutional syncretism, land tenure, and local governance in rural Senegal, The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal (University of California Press, 2004) won the 2005 Best Book Award from the African Politics Conference Group. His other published work has appeared in various venues such as Theory and Society and Journal of Modern African Studies. He is currently completing a
book entitled Everyday Nation Building, which explores the ongoing, ordinary-life construction of inclusive forms of identity and community in Senegal and in Central Java, Indonesia.