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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
01 Jan 1983-
TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and 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.
Abstract: 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.
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01 Dec 1993
TL;DR: In this article, an examen des modeles anthropologiques which rendent compte de la formation identitaire europeenne, and de leur valeur explicative for l'integration europeennes, l'A. se demande si l'etude des dynamiques d'integral en Europe ne pourrait pas amener a repenser ces modeles.
Abstract: Apres un examen des modeles anthropologiques qui rendent compte de la formation identitaire europeenne, et de leur valeur explicative pour l'integration europeenne, l'A. se demande si l'etude des dynamiques d'integration en Europe ne pourrait pas amener a repenser ces modeles. La construction de l'« Europe » par la CE pose probleme. L'A. se demande s'il est possible de construire une identite europeenne saillante sans l'erosion des anciens nationalismes « centres », et si la campagne de la CE pour le renforcement de la conscience des Europeens par rapport a leur heritage culturel commun pourra eviter le developpement de nouvelles formes de xenophobie et de chauvinisme culturel.
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06 Aug 2007TL;DR: The strange death of political anthropology has been discussed in this paper, where the authors argue that political anthropology is a metaphor for the state and violence in the modern world, and argue for the existence of pluralism in theory and practice.
Abstract: 1. The strange death of political anthropology 2. Locating the political 3. Culture, nation and misery 4. Performing democracy 5. The state and self-making 6. The state and violence 7. Pluralism in theory, pluralism in practice 8. Politics and counter-politics.
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01 Jan 2007TL;DR: Khalili's Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine as mentioned in this paper is an ethnographic study of the history of the Palestinian national movement and how dispossessed Palestinians have commemorated their past, and how through their dynamic everyday narratives, their nation has been made even without the institutional memory-making of a state.
Abstract: Many decades have passed since the Palestinian national movement began its political and military struggle. In that time, poignant memorials at massacre sites, a palimpsest of posters of young heroes and martyrs, sorrowful reminiscences about lost loved ones, and wistful images of young men and women who fought as guerrillas, have all flourished in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine tells the story of how dispossessed Palestinians have commemorated their past, and how through their dynamic everyday narrations, their nation has been made even without the institutional memory-making of a state. Bringing ethnography to political science, Khalili invites us to see Palestinian nationalism in its proper international context and traces its affinities with Third Worldist movements of its time, while tapping a rich and oft-ignored seam of Palestinian voices, histories, and memories.
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TL;DR: In this paper, four main patterns of ethnic survival are outlined: imperial-dynastic, communal-demotic, emigrant-colonist and diaspora-restoration.
Abstract: The persistence of ethnic communities is a neglected area of research. The study of ethnies over long time‐spans requires comparison of different patterns of ethnic survival, in terms of symbols and myths of ethnic election. Such myths can be found in the ancient Near East, in Judea, Greece, Armenia, Persia, as well as Byzantium, Russia and Western Europe, mobilizing and inspiring ethnic survival. Four main patterns of ethnic survival are outlined: imperial‐dynastic, communal‐demotic, emigrant‐colonist and diaspora‐restoration. In each case, modern nationalism reinforces and politicizes the old myths of ethnic election and its forms and intensity can be explained in terms of these patterns of ethnic survival.
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TL;DR: The authors synthesize empirical studies on undergraduate language learners' experience abroad during a time period of a year or less to identify problems and characteristics that language learners generally encounter in the study abroad (SA) experience.
Abstract: The aim of this review is to synthesize empirical studies on undergraduate language learners’ experience abroad during a time period of a year or less To help provide a framework to this synthesis, we begin our review by tracing the recent evolution of empirical mixed-method research on the learner, identifying problems and characteristics that language learners generally encounter in the study abroad (SA) experience We take a closer look at variables related to individual difference such as anxiety, motivation, and attitudes to more recent views of learner identity in language learning We highlight the shift to language learner agency, a topic that merits more discussion in SA literature We then review how the SA learning environments are treated This review takes a closer look at research informed by socially grounded theories Finally, we review the role that SA plays in undergraduate language curricula, where the objectives of the experience are aligned with at-home (AH) curricula, a topic that has not been fully discussed in SA literature The conclusions offer suggestions for keeping pace with the broader field of applied/educational linguistics
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