Meaning of folkism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An ideology that emphasizes racial or ethnic identity, especially when combined with nationalism.
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2. An ideology, articulated by historian Simon Dubnow, that declared Jewish people to be a diaspora nation without a territory.
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3. Völkisch nationalism; the desire for a homogeneous population that excludes foreigners and the belief that different racial or ethnic groups have different rights.
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4. A Japanese ideology that emphasized a common identify among East Asian peoples, associated with the fascist movement during the WWII era.
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5. A movement within the Heathen or neo-pagan community that states one cannot convert to Heathenry unless one has the appropriate ancestry.
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6. Synonym of populism.
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7. An artistic aesthetic that is based on traditional practices that are passed on from individual to individual, such as folk tales, folk music, common cultural practices, etc.
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8. A movement within Nigerian theater started by Sam Ukala that focuses on folk tales as a reaction against colonialism.
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9. A folksy saying, expression, or practice.
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10. A philosophical stance that meaning is based on common usage by ordinary people rather than an abstract principle.
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Examples

“For example, I hear a "forward" reference to the quartets of Bartok and Shostakovitch (and perhaps more generally to a kind of imprecise "Central European nationalism/folkism”) in the bare and unharmonized motif in the viola and cello, imitated by the first and second violins, at bars 92–94 of the movement.”

“While Marilyn Booth notes how the Negm-Imam duo drew on 'popular oral performance and collective life', she adds that 'these songs, performed, countered the "naïve folkism” that Nasserist rhetoric – including publications for the populace in the form of poems, songs and studies of “folk life” – incorporated' (Booth 2009, 71).”

“The stage animator of the Good Soldier Schweik, the teacher of Peter Weiss and Ralph Hochhuth, Piscator would have despised Utpal's glowing outbursts of patriotism, nationalism and folkism.”

“Folkism viewed itself as a present-oriented phenomenon called into existence not by individuals or ideals, but by the exigencies of daily life in the Diaspora.”

“Subsequently, this vision led him to an embrace of a populist folkism that attempted to forge a Jewish nationally autonomous space by creating an independent Jewish economics and politics.”

“Folkism in Poland drew its inspiration from several sources including Ahad Ha'am's notion of a spiritual Zionism, Chaim Zhitlovsky's zealous Yiddishism, and mostly, the historian Simon Dubnow's idea of the Jews as constituting an ethical, democratic, diaspora nation.”

“For folkism, human value and human rights were associated with cultural identity just as they are for contemporary postmodernism.”

“It was, in essence a romantic folkism synthesized with scientific evolutionism. It included the standard Darwinian ideas of struggle (Kampf) and competition as the foundation for natural law, and therefore social law, with a curious "religion" of nature which implied a small place for rationalism, the lack of free will, and happiness as submission to the eternal laws of nature.”

“Jordan regarded his enunciation of 'revolutionary folkism' as 'National Socialism developed to its ultimate implications'.”

“But folkism, he urged, should not be understood as imperial expansion but rather as the necessity of the group to transcend "certain limits." "The formation of Manchukuo," he wrote, "had nothing to do with capitalism but resulted from the [needs] of Japanese folkism."”

“Harootunian calls this "an ideological/cultural order calling for authenticity, folkism, and communitarism” in pointing out fascism's “ideological appeal to culture and community.””

“Explicitly anti-political and anti-religious, this 'folkism' or 'ethno-nationalism' (minzokushugi) as a general pattern of thought remains strong in contemporary Japan, and can be readily tapped into by those whose aims are in fact political.”

“Further, the 'slope' from mild 'folkism' to more major nationalism, including the use of symbols associated with the far right and the appropriation and use of heathen or Asatru symbolism by such groups, is documented for the USA by Gardell (2003); we have commenced some discussion of such phenomena within the UK (e.g. Blain 2004) but wish to emphasise that the majority of heathens with whom we have been in contact see this as a major problem and seek to distance themselves from 'political' and 'racial' frameworks.”

“Notwithstanding, the idea of Folkism is largely rejected by more than a hundred kindreds, including the Raven Kindreds and those affiliated with the Ring of Troth, the Irminsul Ættir, or the American Vinland Association.”

“Swain Wodening (n.d.) argues that tribalism allows Heathens to become Heathen without many of the hassles of universalism or folkism. Since most tribal Heathens believe folks must be adopted into the tribe, ancestry is not as much of an issue as it is with folkism.”

“These movements were intensely nationalist, highly moral and, although middle class, discovered folkism 'as a reaction against bourgeois society' (Joll, 1983: 154).”

“The communal body, wrapped with the social fabric of folkism, naturalized social relations, thus erasing any differences of class, gender, or region.”

“He focused on the failures of institutions such as the church, describing Christianity as a 'spiritual cancer' that threatened racial survival, and also decried the monarchy, whose existence was not deemed incompatible with the 'revolutionary folkism of the vanguard'.”

“But never forget that while fascist Reds are one thing and Fascists quite another, Social Transcendentalists would be different again, being the logical extension beyond petty-bourgeois folkism to the proletarian classlessness of the Centre, more radical and absolutist in every respect.”

“The emergence of folkism in Bangladeshi cinema had much to do with what in the romantic tradition is called escapism.”

“And so, in a sense, folklore was, in the rhetoric of the thirties, a makeshift, used more as an enabling language, a medium, than anything else. In the postwar forties, this veneer of folkism rubbed off as easily as, in the thirties, it had been laid on.”

“While the electric energy there and on the smarter "Jolene" inoculates the disc from soft-focus folkism, Branan generally does better when quieting down to shine light on a woman "by the vending machine talking to a Marine" (on the beautiful "Troublesome Girl") or the gal with "the fake tattoos that say 'Forever Yours'" on "Crackerjack Heart."”

“Apart from the African folktale's capacity for clear communication and its popularity among the folk, there are other reasons why it should provide a matrix for folkism.”

“Folkism permits the audience to feel but sacrifices the luxury of sustained empathy, in contrast to epic drama, which exhorts the audience to reason (p. 286).”

“He then explained folkism as the use of history, culture, concerns, and aspirations of Nigerian people to compose and perform deploying African confentions.”

“Quaint folkisms, rejected by the folk, did exert some influence – a selective influence, surely – on upper-class and noble writers, such as the great poet Aleksandr Pushkin.”

“Step-parenting is proverbially the hardest of relatiohships to build successfully. For many o fhte millions who start over again with children in the equation, that folkism proves woefully true.”

“But fifty years ago we found ourselves at the confluences of several forces that upset the apple-cart (Tom found the folkisms interspersed with the intelligent dialogue quite amusing, but forced and artificial).”

“In his 1954 campaign, Folsom adopted the slogan "Y'all come," a regional folkism that signaled Southern hospitality but also hinted at Folsom being the most accepting candidate in terms of working with and seeking votes from blacks.”

“Once one accepts the concept of folkism in man's thought, this leads to a consideration of folkism in religion.”

“This compromises the note of purportedness in reference that it seems to me folkism means to sound. Either the intentionality of reference is accepted as a datum or it has to be explained. Folkism short-stops the question, both ways.”

“In particular, I argue that (i) moral folkism leads us to the deflationary conclusion that many of the normative and metaethical questions that philosophers discuss are settled by empirical facts about what ordinary folk happen to mean by their words — and so they're not settled by mind-independent facts about reality.”

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