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

• Autore: Stephens Angharad Closs.
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.54
• Soggetto topico: Nationalism; Internationalism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The persistence of nationalism
• ISBN: 0-203-57538-5; 1-299-31967-X; 1-136-69192-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465122503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Interventions (Routledge (Firm))