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kokumin, which is commonly translated as “the nation.”
Hiromi Mizuno • Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
"We are citizens of the most powerful country in the world, and it is a country that stands upon the wrong side of every liberation struggle on earth. I want you to feel what that means."
Substack • Practicing a practice is a practice
In 1991 the nation of Zimbabwe bought our building and everyone was evicted.
William Zinsser • Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacher
NAPO was a coming together of different communities in the New Afrikan Independence Movement. The Republic of New Afrika was imagined in 1968 as an independent Black-majority nation in the Southeastern United States. The first vision was articulated at a meeting of the Malcolm X Society in Detroit. The states they imagined as being part of this new
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
The nation is a thing whose meaning is consigned and contested within a specific process of commodification of social relations. Although the nation is an imagined idea, it is institutionalized as laws and policies once it is invoked by social and state actors.
Hyun Ok Park • Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
