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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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13 Oct 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the price of being mobile in Asia-pacific and domesticate Cartographies of gendered mobile media in the region, focusing on mobile communication and gender in the Asia-Pacific region.
Abstract: Introduction: The Price of Being Mobile. Section 1: Mobile Media Societies 1. Locating the mobile: Mobile Communication and Gender in the Asia-Pacific 2. Paradigms of Mobility: Conceptual Tenors for Studying Mobility Today 3. Beyond "The New Rich": Consumption, Production and Gender in the Region Section 2: Mobile Media Cultures 4. Fast-forwarding to the Present: The Rise of Customised Mobile Media in Tokyo 5. Engaging Rings: The Haendupon and Intimate Communities in Seoul 6. Nostalgia Mobility: Memory and the Mobile Phone in Hong Kong 7. Postal Presence: Persistence of the Postal Metaphor in Melbourne 8. Domesticating Cartographies: Gendered Mobile Media in the Region Section 3: Mobile Media Practices 9. Domesticating New Media: A Discussion on Locating Mobile Media 10. The Big Bang: An Example of Mobile Media as New Media 11. On Hold: Reflections on a Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific
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15 Aug 2002TL;DR: In this paper, Rae locates these practices of "pathological homogenisation" in the processes of state building and argues that those atrocities prompted the development of international norms of legitimate state behaviour that increasingly define sovereignty as conditional.
Abstract: Why are forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and genocide an enduring feature of state systems? In this book, Heather Rae locates these practices of 'pathological homogenisation' in the processes of state building Political elites have repeatedly used cultural resources to redefine bounded political communities as exclusive moral communities, from which outsiders must be expelled Showing that these practices predate the age of nationalism, Rae examines cases from both pre-nationalist and nationalist eras: the expulsion of the Jews from fifteenth century Spain, the persecution of the Huguenots under Louis XIV, and in the twentieth century, the Armenian genocide, and ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia She argues that those atrocities prompted the development of international norms of legitimate state behaviour that increasingly define sovereignty as conditional Rae concludes by examining two 'threshold' cases - the Czech Republic and Macedonia - to identify the factors that may inhibit pathological homogenization as a method of state-building
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how imagination is put into practice and determine what it is that makes some individuals act on the basis of these imaginings to improve their quality of life.
Abstract: Through the examination of British migration to rural France, the article explores how imagination is put into practice and aims to determine what it is that makes some individuals act on the basis of these imaginings to improve their quality of life. It becomes clear that, for lifestyle migration to occur and in order to explain the timing of migration, it is necessary to question and consider the other factors—structural, cultural and biographical—that might drive people to act on the basis of their imaginings. Through recognition of the various contingencies that need to be in place for lifestyle migration to occur, the paper argues for a theoretical approach that accounts for the dialectic between structure and agency in the act of migration.
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TL;DR: At the psychological level, ethnic conflict can be seen as an extreme result of normal group identification processes and bridging perceived intergroup boundaries is therefore key to improving intergroup relations as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: At the psychological level, ethnic conflict can be seen as an extreme result of normal group identification processes. Bridging perceived intergroup boundaries is therefore key to improving intergr...
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TL;DR: The racial identities of Indians and mestizos in a highland Peruvian region are closely associated with their relative positions to the earth as mentioned in this paper, and this distinction is maintained and reinforced through the use of material objects in everyday life.
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