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Civil-military relations must go beyond civilian control based primarily on the risk of a coup d'état. An important concept in this regard is military identity. However, literature explicitly discussing how military and civilian identities shape behaviors in civil-military relations is scarce. This article addresses the role of military identities in the structural challenges involved in these relations in Colombia, based on the case study of the 2014 presidential campaign, its main political, security, scandals, and public debates. It discusses how these identities are both an asset and a liability to strengthening civil-military relations and proposes a means of improvement through citizen identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his biography of Camilo Torres, historian Walter Broderick (1996) describes the Order of Preachers as obscurantist, and its members as ignorant and living off the superstitious practices of the country's most underprivileged classes. This statement serves as a pretext for the introduction to an exercise of historical analysis on the decline, disappearance and subsequent restoration of the Order of Preachers in Colombia. The aim is to propose a periodization of the order in the country during the twentieth century. From the confrontation of primary and secondary sources, it seeks to highlight the social and political dynamics that led, simultaneously, to the construction of the republic and the decline of the religious orders in the country. Afterwards, in a more extensive way, the process of restoration of the Order between 1881 and 1965 will be presented, through the three phases that have been identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The connection between identity and language is hard to deny. In the production of national identities, language plays a key role in the homogenizing of the population by political will. Since the conquest of Colombia over 500 years ago, language has been a crucial tool in the construction of national identity and the concept of nation. This article, through archival research, critical reading, textual analysis, and grounded theory, examines the role of language from pre-colonial Colombia to modern day Colombia in the formation of national identity and character. It carefully and critically examines the roles and conflicts of Spanish and indigenous languages in colonial laws until modern education legislation, and the current rise of English in education law, and what this means in terms of national identity for Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the parameters and constraints that discuss the creation and dissemination of education system and the way in which ascribes the teaching of history in the general education cluster. It is stating that the national education system does not appear to correlate a picture that simply allows the State to exercise a hegemony closed in the processes of formation of the Colombian national identity. The emphasis will rather that this project was to facilitate cohesion and social mobility through various obstacles inherited from the nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to describe the identity forms in the Táchira (Venezuela) -North Santander (Colombia) border region. The research design comes from the qualitative methodology and adopts the Grounded Theory as method to be followed. It uses sampling theory in combination with the saturated theory to analyze the interviews of a series of informants located at both sides of the international border. A review of the literature on identity and identity forms was carried out, contemplating the contributions of various scientific disciplines. The data are analyzed in following theoretical coding (open, axial and selective) and analytic induction, to reveal emerging concepts and reveal their links. The results show commonalities and divergent forms of identity: personal identity (self-perception elements, relationships, double identity and identity differentiation), border identity (the region is perceived as different from the rest) and national identity (History, awareness of the border line, and symbols) coexist in the inhabitants of border. The attitudinal aspects show the acceptance and rejection of the performance of the major institutions in the border dynamics. The identity forms found in the region confirm the findings of studies on identity and borders, although it should be noted that the experience of the international boundary fails to blur national stereotyped perceptions of the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An investigation into the representation in the print media of the cultural and archaeological heritage issues shows that in Colombia, despite a strong increment in its visibility since 1991, -- given the role they play in the construction of the national identity imposed by the condition of a multicultural and multiethnic state which is decreed by the Political Constitution from the aforementioned year -- this trend was not maintained over time and covered all media equally, therefore, characterizing some aspects of this process and deining ways to monitor and study this issue in the short term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this research article the study of cultural institutionalism between 1982 and 1992 through Radio Nacional de Colombia is dealt with. During that period, institutionalism defined by the cultural organization and the national identity representation as the faculties belonging to the Colombian State, which generated a series of struggles and competences for its control and monopoly, is questioned. The study of cultural institutionalism conceived as a field of cultural production, and its relationship with public broadcasting, was made from a genetic analysis of cultural institutionalism, an analysis of its structure in the 1980's decade. In the reorganization of cultural institutionalism, the role of public media in the State cultural and educational activities, in which commercial media took on most of its functions, was redefined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the description of how globalization and its relationship with the emergence with the so called "new world order" has been assumed, this article investigates about the consequences of globalization in the Nation-state and the categories that, as national identity, are closely related to it. Finally, using the Colombian case, I will investigate the strategies implemented by the State in order to adapt and be competent in a globalized and transnational context with the correspondent consequences for the way to identify nationals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is a historical approach to the National Museum of Colombia, in order to analyze the representations of the Nation and its inhabitants exhibited between 1880 and 1912. First, it refers to some of the features of the Museum, taking into account its development during the nineteenth century and the social and cultural function it fulfilled; it then studies how collections were established by examining their origin and type of object gathered at the time, discussing how objects were classified in relation to the segment population and the variation of this classification during this period. Finally, it exemplifies how specific segments of the population were represented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate those socio-cultural process generated by the participation of a group of sudamerican children in inmigratory family project. This involves asking questions about what kind of mechanisms are used by children to define, interpret and re-intepret their identities when their frames of socialization change, especially at school. Two arguments are developed. First, inmigration responsability, from children's view, is placed on their role as students, while education is understood as an opportunity for social and economic promotion. Second, at school, etnic and national belongings become important when they are stressed by different looks and interpretations that single them out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a comparison of two ethnographic, this article analyzes the socio-cultural transformations that have occurred on the island of San Andrés over the last 50 years. This exercise uncovers elements that enable new ways of explaining the social conflicts that have occurred on Colombia's Caribbean islands beyond the standard interpretation that they stem from cultural differences between the native population and people from the Colombian mainland. In this sense, the article points to a series of other social processes and dynamics that took place in this part of the country, exploring the possible impacts that occurred on the island as a result of a more complex mode of social organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]