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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465122503321

Autore

Stephens Angharad Closs.

Titolo

The persistence of nationalism : from imagined communities to urban encounters / / Angharad Closs Stephens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-57538-5

1-299-31967-X

1-136-69192-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Interventions

Disciplina

320.54

Soggetti

Nationalism

Internationalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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