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Autore: | Stephens Angharad Closs. |
Titolo: | The persistence of nationalism : from imagined communities to urban encounters / / Angharad Closs Stephens |
Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
Disciplina: | 320.54 |
Soggetto topico: | Nationalism |
Internationalism | |
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: | 1-136-69199-5 |
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.: | 9910811046003321 |
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