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Nationalism, Militarism and Masculinity After the Construction of the Border

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Nationalism, Militarism and Masculinity in Post-Conflict Cyprus

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This chapter shows nationalism, militarism and masculinity as constructed in Cyprus after the partition of the island in 1974. The community, civil society and state constructed the post-1974 idea of the country as gendered and victimized. Tied in with it is militarism—the creation of an ideology of ‘defence’, expressed with a ‘fighting spirit’ in a national struggle aiming to ‘liberate’ the ‘occupied’. The national ‘struggle’ and ‘fighting spirit’ are embodied by men and linked to notions of post-conflict masculinity.

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Efthymiou, S.A. (2019). Nationalism, Militarism and Masculinity After the Construction of the Border. In: Nationalism, Militarism and Masculinity in Post-Conflict Cyprus. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14702-0_2

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