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Com o presente artigo, pretende-se abordar o tema do “jogo de futebol” e as estratégias utilizadas por seus mediadores – os narradores esportivos – para construir a enunciação esportiva e, consequentemente, vincular-se aos participantes... more
Este artículo examina diferentes conceptos de nación que van desde lo étnico, lo moderno, y lo utópico. Esboza la evolución del significado de la palabra nación desde el Renacimiento al siglo XXI y distingue entre la nación y el... more
Abstract: During the televised broadcast of the rite of voting of the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, the pre-arrangement of a programmed environment was exposed, in which, due to the audiovisual recording planning, an... more
In his classical book “Imagined Communities”, Benedict Anderson attempted to outline the historic causes and process that lead to the rise and spread of nationalism all over the world, and in doing so came up with some innovative ideas,... more
The word “cacique” usually refers to a local strongman, boss, or warlord, and “democracy” denotes the political system that has put such powerful figures in command of politics at the national level. A prototype of this politics first... more
Conference paper/introduction for the 3 sessions on "Belonging and Unbelonging", Intersections/Intersezioni Conference, Florence, 30 May - 1 June 2018
The phrase “the Chinese problem” is used to describe the fragmentation of the ethnic Chinese group from the Indonesian nation, and their subsequent discrimination . In other words, the failure for ethnic Chinese Indonesians to be accepted... more
Examines common language biases and ideologies about orality and literacy in Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities."
"فإذا كانت القومية علاقة إنتماء لجماعة متخيلة فهى تتضمن الحب طبعا. اما منتجات القومية الثقافية من شعر، ونثر قصصي، وموسيقى، وفنون تشكيلية، فتظهر هذا الحب بوضوح شديد في آلاف الأشكال والأساليب. ومن جهة آخرى كم من النادر حقا أن نجد منتجات... more
Benedict Anderson’s great work, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Anderson 1983; hereafter IC) has been hailed as the “best known single work in nationalism studies” (Breuilly 2016: 625). His work... more
The geological divergence of the North American and Eurasian plates creates a geological border known as the mid-Atlantic ridge. The continual diverging forces and intense volcanic activity of the sub-oceanic ridge have given birth to the... more
Pre-publication version of a chapter in The Adrián E. Cristobal Lecture Series 2010-2017 (Manila, 2018), which features the AEC Lectures of Gémino H. Abad (2011), Virgilio S. Almario (2012), Resil Mojares (2013), Reynaldo Ileto (2014),... more
This is a report on ''Imagined Communities: Reflection on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism''
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Музей нь үүсэн байгуулагдсан цаг үеийнхээ төрийн байгуулал, дэглэмийн бэлгэдлийн эрх мэдэл (Бурдьё 1984), бүх төрлийн ноёрхол үүнд жишээ нь жанжлах ёсыг (Грамчи [1936] 1971) шинжлэн судлахад хамгийн тохиромжтой талбар юм. Түүнчлэн... more
Chapter 6 - Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
Indian Cashmere shawls were costly accessories in nineteenth-century Britain, and they were ‘imitated’ in Edinburgh, Norwich and Paisley. This article argues that shawls were at the centre of a key debate within the design reform... more
This essay argues that Anderson’s definition of the nation as a community that is imagined, limited and sovereign, while correctly identifying nations as constructed, is insufficient. In fact, Anderson fails to give a definition at all,... more
The subject of this article is Kurdish historiography in Turkey in the 1990s and especially the ways in which it constructs, defines and reworks Kurdish national identity. Although a number of studies exist regarding the relationship... more
This is a e-proceedings of International Conference on Reviving Benedict Anderson: Imagined (Cosmopolitan) Communities, January 13-14, 2017, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
This paper aims at answering the question “No nation now but the Imagination”. The author agrees with Anderson’s ideology about imagined communities but questions its validity. The author’s paper focuses on identifying areas where... more
Employing a poststructuralist-meets-anarchist stance that advances conceptual insight into the nature of sovereign power, this article examines the dialectics of capitalism/primitive accumulation, civilization/savagery, and law/violence,... more
Tinjauan atas buku Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, edisi kedua (London: Verso, 1983).
This article examines the relationship between the fan community of Arsenal Football Club and time-space distanciation. Since the end of European imperialism, the English football club has been quietly colonising the minds of spectators... more
The essay shows that language is a significant tool of nationalism by focusing on Benedict Anderson's print capitalism theory and provides several examples of nationalist movements where language played a crucial role.
This paper offers a discussion of the modernist approaches to the nation and the critique of it. First, I will offer brief accounts of the scholars who argue that the nation is a modern construction. Later on, I will turn to the... more
Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities" has become the bible of nationalism in which he examines the origin and spread of nationalism. The purpose of this article it to go beyond Anderson's colonial and postcolonial time periods and... more
This essay appears in the book Enchanting David Bowie, edited by Toija Cinque, Christopher Moore and Sean Redmond and published by Bloomsbury Academic Press, July 2015. Abstract : Among all the fabulist baubles of five decades of... more
Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation, I argue, constitute a response to what I call the problem of stability: how in the moment of crisis can a rational state stably be realized. The crisis, for Fichte, is both political and... more
Although literacy and print were essential tools of the New Zealand colonial project ultimately designed to ‘amalgamate’ Māori into the modern Pākehā-dominated world, ironically they also helped in the evolution of a collective Māori... more