national identity

Holocaust memory and the horizon of national identity: Canada’s National Holocaust Monument (NHM) as a means for shaping Canadian identity

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By Jason Chalmers In recent decades, ‘the Holocaust’ has become a free- floating symbolic signifier that can be applied to a variety of subjects regardless of their (dis)similarity to the Nazi persecution of European Jewry. This means that, while the ostensible purpose of Holocaust commemoration is to honour the dead, a community’s decision to remember the Holocaust is compelled by… Read more →

Volume 7, Issue 1, 2016

Volume 7, Issue 1, 2016

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To access the complete Amsterdam Social Science Journal Volume 7 Issue 1 click here Preface by Ina Rüber The familiar reader of Amsterdam Social Science would know that in each issue we seek to encourage interdisciplinarity and provide a stage for young and devoted researchers. In this issue, we invite our old and new curious readers to join in and… Read more →

Feminisation of the Nation: Images of Woman, Family and Nation in the Lithuanian Public Discourse

Feminisation of the Nation: Images of Woman, Family and Nation in the Lithuanian Public Discourse

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By Darja Davydova Narratives on family, gender and sexual behaviour are signifcant for the investigation of national identity construction, because they always bring up discussions of morality and cultural essence. This article poses the question how the national self is contested and reassured during debates on restrictive policies in spheres of reproduction and sexuality, and explains interrelation between gender and… Read more →