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UNINA9910465122503321 |
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Autore |
Stephens Angharad Closs. |
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Titolo |
The persistence of nationalism : from imagined communities to urban encounters / / Angharad Closs Stephens |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-203-57538-5 |
1-299-31967-X |
1-136-69192-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Nationalism |
Internationalism |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: the persistence of nationalist imaginaries -- Beyond "imagined communities": nationalism and the politics of knowledge -- Weberian tales: disenchantment, mastery and meaning -- Rousseau's legacies: the politics of time, community and loss -- Urban cosmopolitanism: the return of the nation in times of terror -- Nationalism and its limits: the politics of imagination -- Sites of memory and the city as a melee -- Conclusion: the aftermath of nationalist imaginaries. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is a book about the difficulties of thinking and acting politically in ways that refuse the politics of nationalism. The book offers a detailed study of how contemporary attempts by theorists of cosmopolitanism, citizenship, globalism and multiculturalism to go beyond nationalism often reproduce key aspects of a nationalist imaginary. It argues that the challenge of resisting nationalism will require more than a shift in the scale of politics - from the national up to the global or down to the local, and more than a shift in the count of politics - to an emphasis on diversity and multi |
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