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In the 1960s, Africobra, a group of African-American artists in Chicago, experimented with art that synthesized African and African-American forms with interpretative visions of an African Diaspora. Africobra mandated a functional program for art-making in which art was to instruct in the beauty of a universal Black culture. Their imagery predates publication of Molefi Asante's "Afrocentricity" yet negotiates in visual terms Afrocentric tendencies present throughout African American cultural historiography. Still working in the present day, Africobra emphasizes the moral value of the creative process for the individual African American artist within an Afrocentric paradigm. In so doing, Africobra attempts recapture in an American context, the power of definition over art and identity exercised for centuries by dominant culture. Adapted from the source document.

Recent Australian research suggests that professional boundaries are not necessarily bounded and static, but reconstituted in response to reform. An examination of professional identities within the healthcare sector suggests that societal and political change serve to liquefy professional delineations. Yet, how do these changes affect traditional labour divisions; and how do the forces for change affect the reconstruction of professional identity? This paper demonstrates that organisational pressures are changing the historically anchored medical profession and the emerging nursing profession. Such change is also influenced by the void between clinicians cum managers and clinicians. Because the success of healthcare reform is contingent on professional interdependence, it is important that the evolution of professional delineations within the sector is understood.

Kosovo's unresolved status is one of the major potential threats to that stability. A 'successful' outcome - one that leads to durable stabilisation of the region and promotes the acceleration of the whole region towards EU integration - presupposes the acceptance of the result of the process by all parties. However, this seems far away, given their diametrically opposed positions at present. The paper seeks to address the issue not primarily as one of the Kosovar Albanians' 'right to self-determination', but as a challenge to Serbia to redefine its national identity and statehood in light of the impasse of its traditional national agenda, and the new opportunities that EU integration now offers. Adapted from the source document.

In this article, social narratives & collective imaginary provide the frame to redefine the role of culture in protest movements. As collective narratives hold a specific stock of cultural & symbolic resources they construct the individual's identity. They also supply discursive viewpoints that facilitate or impede political participation & action. Here, the authors have observed the actions of French & Swiss anti-racist organizations in their defense of migrants. The representations of the nation, as well as the narratives collected, provide a conceptual scheme that allow to appreciate the presence of activists in the public sphere. They also disclose the type of politically mobilized actions in the claiming process as well as the contents of public incursion. Tables. Adapted from the source document.

Analyses of the women's movement that focus on its "waves" & theories of social movements that focus on contentious politics have encouraged the view that the women's movement is in decline. Employing alternative perspectives on social movements, we show that the women's movement continues to thrive. This is evidenced by organizational maintenance & growth, including the international expansion of women's movement organizations; feminism within institutions & other social movements; the spread of feminist culture & collective identity; & the variety of the movement's tactical repertoires. Moreover, the movement remains capable of contentious collective action. We argue for research based on broader conceptions of social movements as well as the contentious politics approach. 80 References. Adapted from the source document.

The essay presents an overview of the varied approaches to research on right-wing populism. Specifically, the objective is to document the evolution of the Austrian Freedom Party under Haider as an integral part of new European right-wing populism, whose strengths & weaknesses tend to be the product of specific characteristics of the phenomenon as such. Following a detailed analysis of the convergence of right-wing populist movements on identity politics, the remainder of the article is devoted to analyzing the failure of such parties in government. Of particular interest here is the structural mismatch between the typical characteristics that define such parties & the specific requirements for succeeding in government. 42 References. Adapted from the source document.

The article examines the question of how & why the Druze in Israel are defined officially as a 'national' community, separate from Arab-Palestinian citizens. The article reviews the historical record of the Druze-Jewish relationship beginning with the pre-1948 period, & the steps taken by the State to institutionalize the Druze as an ethno-religious community. The conclusion of the article is that the State successfully manipulated the religious identity of the Druze. It was done for purely 'Jewish-Zionist' reasons, in order to preserve the coherence of the hegemonic ethno-republican citizenship discourse. The current undermining of this discourse threatens also to undo the Druze's unique position between Jews & Arabs in Israel. 2 Tables. Adapted from the source document.

The discussion in Russia about the country's place in & relationship with Europe is a contradictory one. "Europe" & the "West" are the main points of reference. In political discourse, a belief that Russia belongs to "Europe" is frequently expressed, whereas "the West" has negative connotations. In addition, a distinction is drawn between a "true" & a "false" Europe; this "false" Europe is closely associated with NATO & the Baltic states. "Russia in Europe" depends primarily on the self-understanding of the society of the Russian Federation. Even though Russia's "identity crisis," which was a matter of foreign policy, has been overcome under Putin, Russia's perception of its relations with its neighbors is determined primarily by developments in domestic politics. Adapted from the source document.

Preliminary Material -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- TOWARDS A EUROPEAN MODE OF CULTURAL IMAGINARY? /Anna Saunders -- HISTORY AND FORMS OF COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN EUROPE: WHY EUROPE CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT BE BUILT ON HISTORY /Stefan Berger -- THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF MINORITY IDENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THREE 'HUMAN' EXHIBITIONS /Sophie Watt -- SHORN WOMEN, RUBBLE WOMEN AND MILITARY HEROES: GENDER, NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN BRITAIN, FRANCE AND GERMANY, 1944–1948 /Wendy Webster -- WORKING CLASS COMMUNITIES AND THE NEW NATION: ITALIAN RESISTANCE FILM AND THE REMAKING OF ITALY /Marian Hurley -- THE PERSISTENCE OF THE IMAGO-MYTH: BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA /Iulius Hondrila -- THE NEW WAVE AND CITATION: SUMMONING A NEW FRENCH SPECTATOR (AND CITIZEN) TO APPEAR /Franck Le Gac -- FOR WHOM THE DOMINANT MEMORY TOLLS: THE SUPPRESSION AND RE-EMERGENCE OF REPUBLICAN MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN SPAIN /Lorraine Ryan -- 'THINGS WE POSSESS': THE PAST LIVES ON IN THE PRESENT. RECENT FICTION BY ROMANIAN-GERMAN WRITER RICHARD WAGNER /David Rock -- LOCATION AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN CRIME NARRATIVE: THE CASE OF MARCELLO FOIS'S CRIME NOVELS /Lucia Rinaldi -- 'RESCUING THE GAZE': SEEING AS REMEMBERING IN GIANNI CELATI'S STRADA PROVINCIALE DELLE ANIME /Laura Rorato -- POLITICAL ARCHITECTURE AND THE SEDUCTION OF PLACE: THE FORM OF PARLIAMENTS AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY /Giovanni Rizzoni -- SILICON SAXONY:NEWLIFE IN ANOLDCOUNTRY /Joachim Schwend -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

The growing visibility of trans and gender-nonconforming individuals paved the way for a novel politics of transgender recognition in the legal sphere and state-governed public policies. Considering that the possibilities for registering multiple genders beyond male or female are taking effect in several countries, this article examines recent developments and claims that recognition is complicit with misrecognition for two main reasons. Firstly, because models of recognition tend to equalize all the interactions and all the fields of social life. Drawing on Axel Honneth's notion of spheres of recognition, I argue that inasmuch as different forms of recognition (legal, moral, affective) are governed by different norms and gender regimes, the dynamics of recognition produce misrecognition. Secondly, because legal and institutional recognition tends to reify individual identity. Drawing on Nancy Fraser's critique of the identity model of recognition, I contend that the identity recognition model tends to impose a norm rather than recognizing diversity. Therefore, gender identity categories can—through a process of reification—block the entitlement to affirm one's self-determined gender identity. The paradoxical dynamics of recognition are empirically illustrated through an analysis of third-gender markers and their effects upon the lives and narratives of trans and gender-nonconforming individuals. By examining the case of Nepal in comparative perspective with other developments in Asia and South America, it is demonstrated that the identity model of recognition is complicit with feelings and practices of misrecognition.