SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Imagined Community, Government Simulation Game, Indonesian Language
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Benedict anderson(1992) imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Nation state: specific type of state that only occurred recently, modular: capable of being transplanted . Conceived of being viable everywhere, roughly in the same form. 3 paradoxes: objective modernity vs subjective antiquity: Nations = modern enterprises seeking legitimacy through references to it"s history: universality vs particularity: One particular instance of a universal form: reality vs performance. Performed, to sweep people up in an emotional tide to have them give their allegiance to the state. A community which is imagined as both limited and sovereign: imagined: Not based on face to face experiences. E. g: how do we come to recognize that we all come from the same community. Because we imagine" to be in the same community: limited: Each and every nation-state occupies it"s own unique territory. Cannot overlap with any other nation state: sovereign:
