Titlebook: Culture and Context in World Politics; Stephanie Lawson Book 2006 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006 Cult

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Conceptualizing Culture in Political Studies,re’. A principal concern of the political culture school was with the prospects for democracy in various parts of the world. The devastating impact that fascism had had in Europe, and the growing strength of communist authoritarianism to the East, demonstrated that there could be no complacency about support for democratic institutions.

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Introduction, produce objective knowledge. Such challenges have focused much more attention on the cultural contexts within which people are embedded and that operate as the primary realm of intersubjective meaning and understanding. One commentator suggests that the study of culture and the modes in which knowl

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World Politics and the Cultural Turn,yday term used by people to indicate their community or general way of life.. In the world of business we find the idea of ‘corporate culture’ advertising agents use ‘culture’ to create an allure for products and tour operators to market exotic cultures. And there is scarcely any form of identity po

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Culture and the Emergence of the Human Sciences, by providing Europeans with their ‘deepest and most recurring images of the Other’. In this way, the Orient helped ‘to define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience’.. However, while images of the Orient were clearly important in shaping senses of self within E

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Culture/s: Conceptualization and Theorization,ially used to counter racialist ideas based on biological premises. At the same time, it worked to repudiate the evolutionary frameworks within which the superiority of European societies was often imagined, thereby producing a significant change in thinking about both sameness and difference. But t

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History, Culture and the National State,s occupants, it had the flexibility to accommodate the complex of more explicit political and cultural associations that emerged from the seventeenth century onwards in relation to political community. These were to include democratic ideas which awarded a particular political legitimacy and authori

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Contextualizing Cultural Politics,lier, discourses on these themes have become muted in the post-9/11 world, but the more general implications for understanding cultural politics in the international sphere remain important. The use of a cultural category such as Confucianism to underscore alternative models of democracy also raises

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