Introduction: Inventing Traditions

Hobsbawm, Eric

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“…Might intentionally designed projects of local and "Islamic" architecture, through the habitualizing of particular spatial performances-or through repetition-constitute in time, both an "invented tradition" (Hobsbawm 1983) and, consequently, heritage? But perhaps the more pertinent question here is to ask, following Thomas (1992, 216), "against what are traditions invented?"…”

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Reclaiming Heritage Through the Image of Traditional Habitat

Mozaffari

Westbrook

2017

The Making of Islamic Heritage

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From the 1960s, Iran, like many other similar countries experienced a radical urban expansion and industrialization, chiefly as a result of the expanding oil industry. Internal migration fueled by industrialization created both a crisis of habitation and a cultural dissonance, in response to which various schemes were developed for model communities, intended to bridge the gap between Iranian culture, its heritage, and modern urbanism. We will examine one such "model community," New Shushtar, a housing complex adjacent to the ancient heritage town of Shushtar, in which architectural motifs and images were used to evoke and perhaps invoke authentic traditional life. We will place this complex within the broader context in the Muslim world of attempts to defend regional culture from the effects of globalization.

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Reclaiming Heritage Through the Image of Traditional Habitat

Mozaffari

Westbrook

2017

The Making of Islamic Heritage

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“…First, the revival of telemark skiing follows the logic of what Hobsbawm (1983) calls invention of tradition. According to Hobsbawm, traditions are invented by resourceful people in order to connect the present with the past.…”

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Telemark Skiing: The Ultimate Norwegian Sport and a Class Phenomenon

Breivik

Skille

2012

European Journal for Sport and Society

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In this paper, we scrutinize telemark skiing with regard to gender and social class and other sociological variables. In so doing, we apply Bourdieu's framework to analyse the surveys -one representative nationwide and one from a specific telemark race -that are our methodological approach. National statistics is utilized as an additional source. Main findings are that telemark skiing is dominated by boys, and more than other ski disciplines and other sports have a distinct class profile, especially related to higher education. Telemark skiing can be seen as both a class distinction and a sign of individualization, as it is a rather "new" sport. Analytically, it is suggested that the theses of individualization and of social inequality are interrelated; it is more likely to be individualized if you belong to a higher social class, because the economic and cultural capital needed to make choices are concentrated in that specific area of social space.

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“…They have been referred to as a key element in the "invention of tradition," a term used to refer to a formalization and ritualization that was designed to establish or legitimize authority. 29 Such events had replaced the symbolic significance of the old landed elites, whose weddings and funerals had once formed an importance part of civic life in their local towns and cities and were a key component of a reordered urban environment in which the new urban aristocracy sought to establish and maintain their legitimacy.…”

Section: Aristocratic and Municipal Elites In Late-nineteenthcentury mentioning

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Re-ordering the Landscape: Landed Elites and the New Urban Aristocracy in Manchester

O’Reilly¹

2011

Urban History Review

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This paper examines the relationship between the landed aristocracy in the vicinity of Manchester and the “urban aristocracy” of the municipal authority and their role in the development of municipal parks in the city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It contests the view that landed elites had little impact on the development of the environs of Manchester during this period and argues that their social and economic influence was gradually replaced by that of the municipal authority in a reordering of the social landscape. It also re-examines the role of debt in the decline of the traditional landed elites and argues that, in the case of the two families studied here, debt became a problem much earlier than others have suggested and was often chronic and persistent. The aristocracy of the Manchester area and the sales of their estates have been marginalized in existing histories, as this group has been perceived as peripheral to the city’s development. It is the contention of this paper that they played a more active role in their localities than previously believed and that they forged significant networks with local authorities, families, businesses, and institutions. Their economic relationships with the new business elite in Manchester, represented primarily but not solely by the municipal authority, provide an opportunity to examine the reordering of the social landscape as the landed elite sought to remove themselves from the city. Having symbolized the social and economic power of the aristocracy, the land now represented the civic pride and enterprise of the municipal authority. This paper reveals the complex interplay of power between these elite groups and sheds a unique light on urban land usage and the formation of leisure spaces in the city.

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Introduction: Inventing Traditions

Cited by 971 publications

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Reclaiming Heritage Through the Image of Traditional Habitat

Reclaiming Heritage Through the Image of Traditional Habitat

Telemark Skiing: The Ultimate Norwegian Sport and a Class Phenomenon

Re-ordering the Landscape: Landed Elites and the New Urban Aristocracy in Manchester

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