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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
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Benedict Anderson, author of Imagined Communities,
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Benedict Anderson, Riddles of Yellow and Red, NLR 97, January–February 2016
Benedict Andersonnewleftreview.org
If in the jocular-sophisticated fiction of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe the trope ‘our hero’ merely underlines an authorial play with a(ny) reader, Marco’s ‘our young man,’ not least in its novelty, means a young man who belongs to the collective body of readers of Indonesian, and thus, implicitly, an embryonic Indonesian ‘imagined com
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In an anthropological spirit, then, I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community – and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.
Benedict Anderson • Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Benedict Anderson rightly described nations as ‘imagined communities’. They have boundaries and resources but are also held together by selective memories of great battles and heroes—and the equally careful forgetting of uncomfortable facts—woven into useful myths that provide a simplified map of the past into which we can insert ourselves, a refer
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