https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd Some of my thoughts plus space to post your own recommendations. en-us 2018-08-11 09:06:52 UTC 2024-12-16 15:03:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Manbag.png lisa_smilla https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272703938 Dear people! The VSS was almost a month ago and I wanted to thank you all for participating in this workshop! I thought it was very interesting to listen to your thoughts and discussions. Here you find some articles and videos I used for researching - please understand them as food for thought, not necessarily my own opinion or a universal truth.
Please add your own recommendations, especially if it adds a new perspective from your home country!
Also feel free use any of this in your AFS volunteer work (or anywhere else) - if you need any further information/activities, write to me!]]> 2018-08-11 09:08:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272703938 lisa_smilla https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272703969 Anderson analyses the nation state as a social concept and how it's changing due to influences like (loss of) religion, literacy in society, etc. Highly recommendable (if you're into books)!]]> 2018-08-11 09:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272703969 lisa_smilla https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704217 Social critic and stand-up comedian George Carlin about pride and patriotism. 
Sorry about the quality.]]> 2018-08-11 09:18:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704217 lisa_smilla https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704252 I have collected some visual materials about patriotism/nationalism which were not used in the workshop - could be used in an AFS activity.]]> 2018-08-11 09:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704252 lisa_smilla https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704300 2018-08-11 09:23:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704300 lisa_smilla https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704309 2018-08-11 09:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704309 lisa_smilla https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704417 A video explaining an approach to national identity and the nation state.]]> 2018-08-11 09:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704417 lisa_smilla https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704620 Here's a list of movies which (according to the authors of the article) have patriotic features to themselves. Most of us have probably seen some of them - did you see how patriotism was depicted there? Did you perceive it as something positive or negative? Can you come up with examples from your own country?]]> 2018-08-11 09:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704620 lisa_smilla https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704776 Documentary recommendation! A documentary about Sudanese refugees coming to the US and adapting to life there by getting to know the new culture while trying to maintain their own cultural identity.
I have only seen parts of this documentary, I must add.]]> 2018-08-11 09:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704776 lisa_smilla https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704947 A 1994-satire on how a team of Sub-Saharan anthropologists come to rural Austria to study the traditions and culture of the locals and explains it to a non-Western audience. Goes into all the cliches of how ethnologic studies were carried out in non-Western countries by Westerners and how identity/culture can be built from the outside.

Terrible quality (well, 1994) and no subtitles, but highly recommendable!]]> 2018-08-11 09:51:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_smilla/m5gg2vlgafmd/wish/272704947