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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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TL;DR: The authors examines the historical and conceptual background to the current discussion of post-national citizenship and argues that concepts of nation and citizenship took on new meanings and became closely connected with the rise of the modern nation-state.
Abstract: This article examines the historical and conceptual background to the current discussion of post-national citizenship. It is argued that concepts of nation and citizenship took on new meanings and became closely connected with the rise of the modern nation-state. Nation and citizenship became key institutions determining access to resources, patterns of solidarity and the active participation that we call citizenship. As the economic and cultural structures upon which national citizenship depend are undermined, it is necessary to review the different ways in which citizenship depends upon the identity, homogeneity and culture which constructions of the nation have in the past provided.
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21 Jan 2002
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the Reginas in international relations: occlusions, cooperations, and Zimbabwean cooperatives, and discuss the dangers in merging feminist and peace projects.
Abstract: Part I. Introductions: Part II. Sightings: 1. Handmaids' tales of Washington power: the abject and the real Kennedy White House 2. Reginas in international relations: occlusions, cooperations, and Zimbabwean cooperatives 3. The white paper trailing 4. Picturing the Cold War an eyegraft/art graft 5. Four international Dianas: Andy's tribute Part III. Sitings: 6. The emperors theories and transformations looking at the field through feminist lenses 7. Feminists and realists view autonomy and obligation in international relations 8. Some dangers in merging feminist and peace projects 9. Gendered development imaginaries: shall we dance Pygmalion? 10. Emphatic cooperation: a feminist method for IR Part IV. Citings: 11. Feminist arts of international relations 12. Internations of feminism and international relations.
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TL;DR: This article investigated the influence of war on state strength in two countries, Afghanistan and Vietnam, and found that war in Vietnam contributed to state-building, while war in Afghanistan has been state-destroying.
Abstract: Does the war-making/state-making thesis, most associated with Charles Tilly, apply in the developing world If so, how? This essay reviews the bellicist literature and offers an explanation for variation in state capacity among the most war-prone states in the developing world. We investigate the influence of war on state strength in two countries, Afghanistan and Vietnam. We examine three hypothesized causal mechanisms about how war contributes to state formation: raising money, building armies, and making nations. We find that war in Vietnam contributed to state-building, while war in Afghanistan has been state-destroying. There appear to be two main factors that contributed to state-making in Vietnam that were absent in Afghanistan: the existence of a core ethnic group that had served as the basis for a relatively long-standing political community in the past, and the combination of war and revolution, which inspired state officials and facilitated the promulgation of a unifying national ideology. Of these two factors, comparative data suggest relative ethnic homogeneity is the most important. Absent these specific conditions, war is more likely to break than make states in the contemporary Third World.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the growing importance of transmigration as a specific type of migration in transnational social spaces and consider transnational spaces as a key concept for understanding the current dynamics of international migration as well as new arrangements of the social and the spatial in human life.
Abstract: In the last decade of the 20th century globalization as a key concept in social sciences and political debate indicated a general shift in the (perception of the) relation between the social and the spatial. At the same time, in migration studies, as a central field for studying this ongoing reconfiguration of social and spatial relations, the focus of transnationalism became very promising. Based on empirical research and conceptual reflections this article focuses on the growing importance of transmigration as a specific type of migration in transnational social spaces. It considers transnational social spaces as a key concept for understanding the current dynamics of international migration as well as new arrangements of the social and the spatial in human life in general.
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TL;DR: A critical examination of the way social media can increase capacity for engagement rather encourage collaboration, depending upon the way the tools are constructed is taken.
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