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Elitist Egalitarianism
The cultural elite are believed to be under siege due to significant changes in the ‘workings’ of cultural capital. Despite such changes, there is very little information about the class subjectivities of the ‘cultural elite’ themselves. The present article seeks to contribute to this shortcoming by taking advantage of in-depth qualitative interviews with individuals possessing great levels of cultural capital in a highly egalitarian country, Norway. This study shows that while the interviewees experience lack of recognition and honour from ‘the people’, they are far from passively descending. The main demarcation to other groups seems not to be cultural taste, but instead the orientation towards culture, broadly defined. While egalitarian sentiments are voiced, this does not hinder cultural elite awareness, but rather dampens how this can be expressed in public – merged into a form of elitist egalitarianism.
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Spain in the nineteenth century
The nineteenth-century Hispanic world was shattered to its core by war, civil war, and revolution. At the same time, it confronted a new period of European and North-American expansion and development. In these essays, authors explore major, dynamic ways that people in Spain envisaged how they would adapt and change, or simply continue as they were. Each chapter title begins with the words “How to...”, and examines the ways in which Spaniards conceived or undertook major activities that shaped their lives. These range from telling the time to being a man. Adaptability, paradox, and inconsistency come to the fore in many of the essays. We find before us a human quest for opportunity and survival in a complex and changing world. This wide-ranging book contains chapters by leading scholars from the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain.
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The unwilling foils of the political right
Using classic elite understandings as our point of departure, we specify the constituent elements and repertoires of the cultural elite as these are described in Swedish and Norwegian newspapers. Through qualitative and quantitative content analyses, we contextualize and compare the cultural elite through five occupational categories and five main themes, and we ask how these characterizations affect the role this elite plays in politics. Also, we suggest a theoretical apparatus for how to link thematic analysis to national cultural repertoires and configurations. We find that there is a higher percentage of references to artists and those with authority over culture production in Sweden than in Norway, while the cultural elite are referred to as academics and culture policy influencers more often in Norway. Another finding is a high level of similarity between the two countries’ view of the cultural elite as snobbish, politically correct, powerful, arrogant and privileged. The study shows that the cultural elite are drawn into a media logic in which they are portrayed as despised adversaries of ordinary people. However, the cultural elite is a more politically contentious label in Sweden than in Norway. The Swedish cultural elite are described as both more cherished and more despised. Moreover, access to membership in the cultural elite is more difficult, and the polarization between the cultural elite and ordinary people is stronger in Sweden.
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Carving status at Kŭmgangsan : elite graffiti in premodern Korea
\"North Korea's Kŭmgangsan is one of Asia's most celebrated sacred mountains, comparable in fame to Mount Tai in China and Mount Fuji in Japan. The late Chosŏn (1650-1900) Korean elite went to Kŭmgangsan on pilgrimages to demonstrate and defend their high social status. Travelers used the mountain to cultivate practices such as naming sites, carving rock inscriptions, and joining a literary lineage. In pilgrimage, they sought an extraordinary experience that could be made only at a particular, nonsubstitutable site; they went on a journey of more than two weeks, following a prescribed route; and they journeyed to a locale that held significance for their religious, political, social, or cultural identity. Some Kŭmgangsan travelers expanded on the prescribed circular route to further demonstrate their social status, engaging with locales by leaving documentation of their visit. Based on multidisciplinary research drawing on literary writings, court records, gazetteers, maps, songs, and paintings, Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan transcends the traditional dichotomies between pilgrim and tourist by reconceptualizing pilgrimage in the premodern Korean context. The book will appeal to scholars in fields ranging from East Asian history, literature, and geography, to pilgrimage studies and art history\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sociabilidades en los inicios de la vida republicana. Nueva Granada 1820-1839
En este artículo se analiza el proceso que entre 1820 y 1839 permitió el ingreso del pueblo a la denominada sociabilidad formal y laica en la Nueva Granada. Se muestra que este ingreso al universo asociativo laico respondió principalmente a las pugnas políticas entre la élite gobernante, o entre un conjunto de personas que tenían la posibilidad de serlo. Con este propósito, se estudió una gran variedad de documentos producidos por las asociaciones de la época —por ejemplo, estatutos, reglamentos, listado de socios, entre otros—, como también información presente en la prensa periódica neogranadina y en diversos archivos consultados.
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Civil war and agrarian unrest : the Confederate South and southern Italy
\"Between 1861 and 1865, both the Confederate South and Southern Italy underwent dramatic processes of nation-building, with the creation of the Confederate States of America and the Kingdom of Italy, in the midst of civil wars. This is the first book that compares these parallel developments by focusing on the Unionist and pro-Bourbon political forces that opposed the two new nations in inner civil conflicts. Overlapping these conflicts were the social revolutions triggered by the rebellions of American slaves and Southern Italian peasants against the slaveholding and landowning elites. Utilizing a comparative perspective, Enrico Dal Lago sheds light on the reasons why these combined factors of internal opposition proved fatal for the Confederacy in the American Civil War, while the Italian Kingdom survived its own civil war. At the heart of this comparison is a desire to understand how and why nineteenth-century nations rose and either endured or disappeared\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cultural elites as selfless ethnic entrepreneurs in the fall of Yugoslavia?
In socialist Yugoslavia, cultural elites were structurally related to the communist ruling elite/s, but the relationship was not simple. Cultural elites were always constituted at the national (republic) level, whereas the political elite was initially a single Yugoslav one, but later, it fractured along the same lines. National cultural elites soon ceased to be anything like transmissions of the ruling one, nor were they unconditionally subjugated to it/them. All cultural elites had a proclivity to view issues as unfavourable towards their own nationhood. The Croat, Serb, and Slovene viewed the Yugoslav arrangement as somehow suppressing, exploiting, or restricting their respective nationhood. This sprang up in literary works, in intellectual production, in the issue of whether Serbo-Croat was a single language. These issues were brought about disputes, which grew from intellectual ones into inter-ethnic ones. These disputes contributed significantly to the disintegration of firstly, the weak Yugoslav cultural nucleus, and secondly of trust among nationhoods and finally they brought about a comprehension of an impossibility of a joint state. Most of these actions could be designated as ethnic entrepreneurship.
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