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Imagined Communities
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Author : Benedict Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2006-11-17
Imagined Communities written by Benedict Anderson and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-17 with Political Science categories.
What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.
Imagining Communities
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Author : Gemma Blok
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Imagining Communities written by Gemma Blok and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Communities categories.
This book examines actual processes of experiencing the imagined community, exploring its emotive force in a number of case studies.
Imagined Communities
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Author : Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1991
Imagined Communities written by Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Political Science categories.
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality—the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation—has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality. Anderson explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was modularly adopted by popular movements in Europe, by the imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa. This revised edition includes two new chapters, one of which discusses the complex role of the colonialist state's mindset in the development of Third World nationalism, while the other analyses the processes by which all over the world, nations came to imagine themselves as old.
A Nation Of Neighborhoods
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Author : Benjamin Looker
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-10-22
A Nation Of Neighborhoods written by Benjamin Looker and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with History categories.
Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In A Nation of Neighborhoods, Benjamin Looker presents us with the city neighborhood as both an endless problem and a possibility. Looker investigates the cultural, social, and political complexities of the idea of “neighborhood” in postwar America and how Americans grappled with vast changes in their urban spaces from World War II to the Reagan era. In the face of urban decline, competing visions of the city neighborhood’s significance and purpose became proxies for broader debates over the meaning and limits of American democracy. By studying the way these contests unfolded across a startling variety of genres—Broadway shows, radio plays, urban ethnographies, real estate documents, and even children’s programming—Looker shows that the neighborhood ideal has functioned as a central symbolic site for advancing and debating theories about American national identity and democratic practice.
Imagining Communities In Thailand
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Author : Shigeharu Tanabe
language : en
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Release Date : 2008
Imagining Communities In Thailand written by Shigeharu Tanabe and has been published by Silkworm Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
This book explores newly emerging communities and the new practices, knowledge, and power relations that can no longer be explained adequately by the conventional conception of community. In the early 1980s, Benedict Anderson coined the term "imagined communities" to examine the creation and global spread of the nation-state as a collective fiction constructed in the homogeneous and empty time of modernity. Set against this conceptual background, the present volume focuses on the processes of "imaging communities" to explore how people imagine and create their own sense of knowledge, power, and identity. The essays in this volume consider the communal relations and properties of newly emerging or transforming communities, associations, and networks: the "imagined family" in shaping the modern Thai nation-state, the Asoke community of a new Buddhist movement, a Karen millenarian Buddhist community on the Thai-Myanmar border, networks of producers and sellers in the Night Bazaar of Chiang Mai, female factory workers in Lamphun, and HIV/AIDS self-help groups of northern Thailand. Taken together, these case studies demonstrate the possibilities of new communities in Thailand and provide a key reference for both students and scholars concerned with a critical approach to sociology, history, development studies, Southeast Asian studies, and anthropology.
Before The Nation
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Author : Susan L Burns
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2003-12-02
Before The Nation written by Susan L Burns and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-02 with History categories.
Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of “nation.”
Imagining A Medieval English Nation
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Author : Kathy Lavezzo
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2004
Imagining A Medieval English Nation written by Kathy Lavezzo and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
The first comprehensive analysis of English national identity in the late Middle Ages. During the late Middle Ages, the increasing expansion of administrative, legal, and military systems by a central government, together with the greater involvement of the commons in national life, brought England closer than ever to political nationhood. Examining a diverse array of texts--ranging from Latin and vernacular historiography to Lollard tracts, Ricardian poetry, and chivalric treatises--this volume reveals the variety of forms "England" assumed when it was imagined in the medieval West. These essays disrupt conventional thinking about the relationship between premodernity and modernity, challenge traditional preconceptions regarding the origins of the nation, and complicate theories about the workings of nationalism. Imagining a Medieval English Nation is not only a collection of new readings of major canonical works by leading medievalists, it is among the first book-length analyses on the subject and of critical interest.
Re Imagining Community And Civil Society In Latin America And The Caribbean
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Author : Roberta Rice
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-15
Re Imagining Community And Civil Society In Latin America And The Caribbean written by Roberta Rice and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Political Science categories.
Latin American and Caribbean communities and civil societies are undergoing a rapid process of transformation. Instead of pervasive social atomization, political apathy, and hollowed-out democracies, which have become the norm in some parts of the world, this region is witnessing an emerging collaboration between community, civil society, and government that is revitalizing democracy. This book argues that a key explanation lies in the powerful and positive relationship between community and civil society that exists in the region. The ideas of community and civil society tend to be studied separately, as analytically distinct concepts however, this volume seeks to explore their potential to work together. A unique contribution of the work is the space for dialogue it creates between the social sciences and the humanities. Many of the studies included in the volume are based on primary fieldwork and place-based case studies. Others relate literature, music and film to important theoretical works, providing a new direction in interdisciplinary studies, and highlighting the role that the arts play in community revival and broader processes of social change. A truly multi-disciplinary book bridging established notions of civil society and community through an authentically interdisciplinary approach to the topic.
Collective Dreams
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Author : Keally D. McBride
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2007-08-09
Collective Dreams written by Keally D. McBride and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-09 with Political Science categories.
How do we go about imagining different and better worlds for ourselves? Collective Dreams looks at ideals of community, frequently embraced as the basis for reform across the political spectrum, as the predominant form of political imagination in America today. Examining how these ideals circulate without having much real impact on social change provides an opportunity to explore the difficulties of practicing critical theory in a capitalist society. Different chapters investigate how ideals of community intersect with conceptions of self and identity, family, the public sphere and civil society, and the state, situating community at the core of the most contested political and social arenas of our time. Ideals of community also influence how we evaluate, choose, and build the spaces in which we live, as the author’s investigations of Celebration, Florida, and of West Philadelphia show.Following in the tradition of Walter Benjamin, Keally McBride reveals how consumer culture affects our collective experience of community as well as our ability to imagine alternative political and social orders. Taking ideals of community as a case study, Collective Dreams also explores the structure and function of political imagination to answer the following questions: What do these oppositional ideals reveal about our current political and social experiences? How is the way we imagine alternative communities nonetheless influenced by capitalism, liberalism, and individualism? How can these ideals of community be used more effectively to create social change?
Imagining The American Jewish Community
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Author : Jack Wertheimer
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2007
Imagining The American Jewish Community written by Jack Wertheimer and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
A lively collection of sixteen essays on the many ways American Jews have imagined and constructed communities