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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: In this paper, a framework which conceptualises geographical scale as dialectically and internally related to the totality of social relations is proposed and discussed with examples from remote mining regions in Australia.
Abstract: Difficulties in relating local scale change to broader dynamics of social and economic restructuring continue to be reflected in much geographical research. This paper argues that inadequate conceptualisations of geographical scale restrict the relevance of much research to the agenda of an applied peoples' geography. A framework which conceptualises geographical scale as dialectically and internally related to the totality of social relations, is proposed and discussed with examples from remote mining regions in Australia.
127 citations
01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In den Kulturwissenschaften eine intensive Beschaftigung mit Konzepten von kollektivem Gedachtnis und Erinnerungskulturen zu beobachten ist in den 1990er Jahre as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Seit Ende der 1980er Jahre ist in den Kulturwissenschaften eine intensive Beschaftigung mit Konzepten von kollektivem Gedachtnis und Erinnerungskulturen zu beobachten. Fragt man nach moglichen Ursachen fur die Wirkungsmacht dieses ›neuen Paradigmas‹ (Jan Assmann), so rucken — neben der durch die Jahrtausendwende ohnehin vermehrt zu beobachtenden Tendenz zur Ruckschau — mit dem ausgehenden 20. Jahrhundert einsetzende Wandlungsprozesse historischer, politischer und gesellschaftlicher, aber auch technologischer und wissenschaftlicher Art in den Blick, die Fragen nach der kollektiven Dimension von Erinnerung und nach dem Verhaltnis von Kultur und Gedachtnis aufwerfen.
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23 Jun 2005
TL;DR: The authors investigate how gay male identities are constructed in the public domain, including tabloid newspaper articles, political debates on homosexual law and erotic narratives, by bringing together queer linguistics and corpus linguistics.
Abstract: Queer linguistics has only recently developed as an area of study; however academic interest in this field is rapidly increasing. Despite its growing appeal, many books on ‘gay language’ focus on private conversation and small communities. As such, Public Discourses of Gay Men represents an important corrective, by investigating a variety of sources in the public domain. A broad range of material, including tabloid newspaper articles, political debates on homosexual law and erotic narratives are used in order to analyse the language surrounding homosexuality. Bringing together queer linguistics and corpus linguistics the text investigate how gay male identities are constructed in the public domain.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify two ideological traditions within Northern Irish unionism, Ulster loyalism and Ulster British, and analyse the structure of each ideology in terms of its imagined community, its Other and its fundamental structuring concepts.
Abstract: This paper identifies two ideological traditions within Northern Irish unionism. The first, Ulster loyalism, is defined by its primary imagined community of Northern Protestants and its secondary conditional loyalty to the British state. It treats religion and politics as inextricably interrelated. This ideology is reproduced by potentially dominatory marches. Ulster British ideology, in contrast, is defined by its primary imagined community of Greater Britain and its secondary regional patriotism for Northern Ireland. It professes liberal political values. This ideology is reproduced by the extensive linkages between Northern Ireland and Great Britain which create typical life paths for Ulster British individuals. After analysing the structure of each ideology in terms of its imagined community, its Other and its fundamental structuring concepts, the paper discusses the possibilities of change of each ideology.
126 citations
01 Sep 2003
TL;DR: The model of identity and sacrifice in the tax state in Brazil and South Africa is discussed in this article, where the tax reform in an era of globalization and democratization is discussed.
Abstract: 1. The model of identity and sacrifice 2. The tax state in comparative perspective 3. Critical juncture: defining national political community 4. The rise of the modern tax state in Brazil and South Africa 5. Shadows of the past: tax reform in an era of globalization and democratization 6. Identity and sacrifice beyond Brazil and South Africa 7. Conclusion.
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