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In the spring of 2008, Chinese students worldwide staged demonstrations to "protect" the relay of the Olympic torch from protesters and to condemn Western media coverage of the violence in Tibet. Hundreds of thousands of mostly young Chinese then posted and discussed images and accounts of these events online, creating a transnational "protopublic space" that projected the imagery of fashionable and self-confident Chinese students marching through San Francisco and Sydney back onto the streets of Wuhan and Hefei, demonstrating the role of young Chinese outside China in shaping nationalist discourse inside the country. Based on ethnographic observation of demonstrations in Sydney and Canberra and on the analysis of the online discussion that surrounded the worldwide events on the Chinese Internet, this article explores the mobilization that led to them, the meanings of the demonstrations for participants, and the public personalities ("heroes" and "traitors") that emerged from them. Unlike constructivist and primordialist analyses of Chinese nationalism that explain its growth by referring to the role of the state or to historical memory, we interpret the displays of nationalism by Chinese youth across the globe not only as an emotional experience of identifying with the nation but simultaneously as a show of middle-class sophistication, creativity and, paradoxically, cosmopolitanism. (China J/GIGA)

International audience ; This file aims at questioning the figure of the traitor – in the broadest sense of the term, in internal as well as in external politics – from Ancient History to nowadays. What role does the traitor play in politics? How do those who lead us make use of treason? Do they all have a propensity to become traitors or to be victims of treason? Is betrayal necessarily a deliberate choice or can it also be a desperate act to reach one's goal? How does an individual become a traitor in eyes of his peers? Historians, sociologists, political scientists, linguists, Cultural Studies researchers, philosophers and jurists are trying throughout this file to answer those extant questions that are all the more legitimate since they seem to recur in a hectic topicality: political scandals, demonstrations – Yellow vests, anti-vaxxers or opponents to Covid-19 health pass- but also the rise of populism in Europe, all being elements attesting a general mistrust against political elites who have lost their credibility and are accused of betraying people's interest. ; Ce dossier ambitionne de réinterroger la figure du traître en politique – au sens large du terme, des affaires intérieures aux relations internationales – dans le temps long, de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Quelle place le traître a-t-il en politique ? Comment ceux qui nous dirigent ont-ils recours à la trahison ? Sont-ils tous susceptibles de devenir traîtres ou d'en être victimes ? Trahir est-il forcément un choix délibéré ou peut-il être un acte par dépit pour parvenir à ses fins ? Comment un individu devient-il traître aux yeux de ses semblables ? Historiens, sociologues, politistes, linguistes, civilisationnistes, philosophes et juristes tentent dans ce dossier de répondre à ces interrogations intemporelles d'autant plus légitimes qu'elles semblent ressurgir au coeur d'une actualité brûlante : scandales politiques, manifestations populaires – Gilets jaunes, antivax et anti-pass sanitaire – ou encore montée des populismes en Europe témoignent ...

International audience ; This file aims at questioning the figure of the traitor – in the broadest sense of the term, in internal as well as in external politics – from Ancient History to nowadays. What role does the traitor play in politics? How do those who lead us make use of treason? Do they all have a propensity to become traitors or to be victims of treason? Is betrayal necessarily a deliberate choice or can it also be a desperate act to reach one's goal? How does an individual become a traitor in eyes of his peers? Historians, sociologists, political scientists, linguists, Cultural Studies researchers, philosophers and jurists are trying throughout this file to answer those extant questions that are all the more legitimate since they seem to recur in a hectic topicality: political scandals, demonstrations – Yellow vests, anti-vaxxers or opponents to Covid-19 health pass- but also the rise of populism in Europe, all being elements attesting a general mistrust against political elites who have lost their credibility and are accused of betraying people's interest. ; Ce dossier ambitionne de réinterroger la figure du traître en politique – au sens large du terme, des affaires intérieures aux relations internationales – dans le temps long, de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Quelle place le traître a-t-il en politique ? Comment ceux qui nous dirigent ont-ils recours à la trahison ? Sont-ils tous susceptibles de devenir traîtres ou d'en être victimes ? Trahir est-il forcément un choix délibéré ou peut-il être un acte par dépit pour parvenir à ses fins ? Comment un individu devient-il traître aux yeux de ses semblables ? Historiens, sociologues, politistes, linguistes, civilisationnistes, philosophes et juristes tentent dans ce dossier de répondre à ces interrogations intemporelles d'autant plus légitimes qu'elles semblent ressurgir au coeur d'une actualité brûlante : scandales politiques, manifestations populaires – Gilets jaunes, antivax et anti-pass sanitaire – ou encore montée des populismes en Europe témoignent ...

ABSTRACT: This essay explores the dynamics of extreme speech online in the context of Eritrea's fraught politics. I find the public sphere that Eritreans in diaspora established on a website as constantly open to collapse and subversion, and thus requiring on-going negotiation among participants. The analysis draws on a close reading of a set of online exchanges in response to a narrative posted on a leading Eritrean news and discussion website. The operation of an open public sphere online is especially significant for Eritreans since there is no right to freedom of expression and no independent media inside the country. In heated exchanges online, people's identities as Eritreans and their loyalties are questioned in spectacular attempts to silence, intimidate, and exclude certain people or ideas. What I also uncover are the strategies used by some posters and the moderator to assert the value of civil discourse and to keep the public forum open and inclusive. The ways that Eritreans engage in and respond to extreme speech in an online forum are interesting for what they reveal about Eritrean politics, but furthermore shed light on the global issue of extreme speech, digital media, and public spheres.

Russia's defeat in the Crimean War cast new doubt upon the fundamental political traditions, social structures, national myths of the Nikolaevan era. It precipitated wide-ranging reforms, including military reforms, which were predicated on a shift in mentality. This essay examines the new notions of heroism that circulated among Russia's emerging public sphere during and after the war. It analyzes the types of heroes that were celebrated as reflections of critical changes in attitude and mindset, which prefigured the liberalizing era of Alexander II.

"Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea's struggle for freedom from opposition to Japanese colonialism starting in 1905 to North Korea's current efforts to deter the threat of invasion by the United States or anybody else by having nuclear weapons. Koreans have been fighting a civil war since 1932, when Kim Il Sung, founder of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, along with other Korean patriots, launched a guerrilla war against Japanese colonial domination. Other Koreans, traitors to the cause of Korea's freedom, including a future South Korean president, joined the side of Japan's Empire, becoming officers in the Japanese army or enlisting in the hated colonial police force. From early in the 20th century when Japan incorporated Korea into its burgeoning empire, Koreans have struggled against foreign domination, first by Japan then by the United States."--Amazon.com.