Modernizing the Nation - Nationalizing Modernity
Modernizing the Nation - Nationalizing Modernity
Author(s): Orvar LöfgrenSubject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Nationalism Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Hrvatsko etnološko društvo
Keywords: project of modernity; modernizing the nation; cultural organization of nation-building and the images of modernity; Sweden; 20th century;
Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the project of modernity - both form the aspect of modernity as an internationalizing and westernizing force and from the aspect of nationalizing practices of modernity. This tension between homogenizing and heterogenizing processes forms the focus of this paper. After an introductory discussion of the cultural organization of nation-building and the images of modernity, the author sketches some traits in the remaking of 20th century Sweden, using the American experience as an analytical contrast.
Journal: Etnološka tribina : Godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva
- Issue Year: 22/1992
- Issue No: 15
- Page Range: 91-115
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English