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"Myanmar und die Vereinten Nationen haben eine erprobte Beziehung. Seit den fünfziger Jahren sind UN-Organisationen in dem politisch zerrissenen Land engagiert, das außenpolitisch immer neutral war. Während der Militärdiktatur waren die UN nur eingeschränkt tätig, in der gegenwärtigen Öffnungsphase sind sie zu einem maßgeblichen Akteur geworden. Sie bilden in Kooperation mit der Regierung Myanmars den Knotenpunkt kommunikativer Vernetzung angesichts des weltweit gestiegenen ökonomischen Interesses an dem vormals isolierten Land." (Autorenreferat)

The growing interest in migration, citizenship, and nationalism among scientists has led in the last two decades to the formation of an interdisciplinary field of critical passport studies. Initially passport scholars were following the institutionalist approach to nationalism, as well as the theories of disciplinary regime and surveillance society. Thus they were focusing on how this travel document together with the associated institutional infrastructure, administrative and social practices have been used in developing modern nation-states by forging the physical, social and cultural boundaries of the nation and disciplining the citizens. More recently, an increasing number of scholars have been investigating the grassroot forms of the perceptions and practices of passport use. Their studies reveal how passports and passes can help citizens in navigating the attempts of nation-states to "bind" their own populations, as well as in subverting a citizenship regime that looks to involve citizens into national projects and socially exclude non-citizens. The review of critical literature on the passport allows us to conclude that the multidimensional nature of this document enables different social actors to involve it in both nation-building and nation-destruction. In light of this literature we can recognize the weakening of the link between citizenship and nation-state, and the fact that citizenship and civic consciousness are currently being produced by various actors at different societal levels.

Stand: 1. Januar 1997

The development of the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine, located in Mongolia's South Gobi province, promises to rebuild the nation after two decades of economic and social instabilities following the 1990 revolution. While the company promotes the mine as the teleological solution to Mongolia's development, the state and public remain ambivalent, as concerns about a resource curse and Dutch Disease loom. In this paper, I argue that Oyu Tolgoi remains contested due to tensions between corporate and state actors as well as public concerns about the potential negative political, economic, and environmental effects of mining. Debates over the Oyu Tolgoi investment agreement negotiations and the immediate repercussions of the agreement signing reveal how the dual teleologies of building mineral nations crystallize in the neologism "Mine-golia." This paper begins to fill a gap in the literature on mineral nations which privileges the role of the state, leaving how corporations engage in nation-building underexamined.

"Nations Across Borders" published on by Oxford University Press.

Rezension: Rong Xinyu, von seinen Freunden auch Arthur genannt, ist Teemeister ersten Grades, Teeproduktionsgroßmeister, Teekünstler, Professor an der Universität Zhejiang und vieles mehr. Vier Jahre hat er nunmehr an diesem Buch gearbeitet, das eine Reihe neuer Aspekte enthält. In seinem 2017 anläßlich der Frankfurter Buchmesse auf Englisch erschienenen Buch 'Tea Nation' malt er einen weiten Spannungsbogen. Anders als viele andere, die die Anfänge der Teekultur im Mythologischen verorten, versucht er die Ursprünge eher wissenschaftlich herzuleiten, wenn man sich bisweilen auch Quellenangaben und Belege wünschte. Nun folgt auf dreihundert lesenswerten Seiten eine tour d'horizon durch die Geschichte des Tees, die er schließlich mit einem Ausblick, The Tea of the Future, beschließt, der zwar originell ist, aber nicht jedem gefallen dürfte ...