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Imagined communities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The imagined community is a concept coined by Benedict Anderson which states that a nation is a community socially constructed, which is to say imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part...
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Benedict Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (born August 26, 1936) is Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government & Asian Studies at Cornell University, and is best known for hi...
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Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, rev. ed. London: Verso Books, 1991. ... It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, ... Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined.
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In order to address some of these problems, Anderson proposes the following definition of nationalism: it is an imagined political community that is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. ... they were responses by power groups threatened with exclusion from popular imagined communities (e.g., Russia, England,
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But it is understandable, and touching, that the first footnote to Benedict Anderson’s afterword to his new edition should read, in explanation of ... But in the beginning, what Anderson wanted to clarify (and keep hold of in subsequent storytelling) were the conditions of production of imagined communities of the new kind.
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