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Author : Sami Zubaida
Release : 1998
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Book Synopsis The Fragments Imagine the Nation by : Sami Zubaida
Download or read book The Fragments Imagine the Nation written by Sami Zubaida. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Partha Chatterjee
Release : 2020-05-05
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Nation and Its Fragments by : Partha Chatterjee
Download or read book The Nation and Its Fragments written by Partha Chatterjee. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing that scholars have been mistaken in equating political nationalism with nationalism as such, he shows how anticolonialist nationalists produced their own domain of sovereignty within colonial society well before beginning their political battle with the imperial power. These nationalists divided their culture into material and spiritual domains, and staked an early claim to the spiritual sphere, represented by religion, caste, women and the family, and peasants. Chatterjee shows how middle-class elites first imagined the nation into being in this spiritual dimension and then readied it for political contest, all the while "normalizing" the aspirations of the various marginal groups that typify the spiritual sphere. While Chatterjee's specific examples are drawn from Indian sources, with a copious use of Bengali language materials, the book is a contribution to the general theoretical discussion on nationalism and the modern state. Examining the paradoxes involved with creating first a uniquely non-Western nation in the spiritual sphere and then a universalist nation-state in the material sphere, the author finds that the search for a postcolonial modernity is necessarily linked with past struggles against modernity.
Author : Friedrich List
Release : 1904
Genre : Economics
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Book Synopsis The National System of Political Economy by : Friedrich List
Download or read book The National System of Political Economy written by Friedrich List. This book was released on 1904. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harith Al Qarawee
Release : 2012-04-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Imagining the Nation: Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict in Iraq by : Harith Al Qarawee
Download or read book Imagining the Nation: Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict in Iraq written by Harith Al Qarawee. This book was released on 2012-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled down in Baghdad's Firdous square, Iraq was entering a new phase of uncertainty. This is a country whose history has been shaped by foreign occupations, authoritarianism, wars and violence. Its identity was always a matter of controversy. The incompatibility between Iraq as a territorial entity and the various cultural identities of its population made it more difficult for Iraqis to imagine their 'Nation'. This Identity Problem has been made worse by a political power which has always based itself on the hegemony politics of exclusion. Through a long journey in the historical processes and socio-political conflicts, the author tells the story of a country devastated by its legacy, seeking to reconcile with itself and re-imagine its nationhood.
Author : Lyn Spillman
Release : 1997-01-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Nation and Commemoration by : Lyn Spillman
Download or read book Nation and Commemoration written by Lyn Spillman. This book was released on 1997-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do people think when they imagine themselves as part of a nation? Nation and Commemoration answers this question in an exploration of the creation and recreation of national identities through commemorative activities. Extending recent work in cultural sociology and history, Lyn Spillman compares centennial and bicentennial celebrations in the United States and Australia to show how national identities can emerge from processes of 'cultural production'. She systematically analyses the symbols and meanings of national identity in these two 'new nations', identifying changes and continuities, similarities and differences in how visions of history, place in the world, politics, land, and diversity have been used to express nationhood. The result is a deeper understanding, not only of American and Australian national identities, but also of the global process of nation-formation.
