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The Persistence of Nationalism : From Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters.

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 reproduc...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Closs Stephens, Angharad
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Collection:Interventions.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; The Persistence of Nationalism: From imagined communities to urban encounters; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The persistence of nationalist imaginaries; Part I Unpacking nationalistimaginaries; 1 Beyond 'imagined communities': Nationalism and the politics of knowledge; 2 Weberian tales: Disenchantment, mastery and meaning; 3 Rousseau's legacies: The politics of time, community and loss; Part 2 Contesting nationalistimaginaries; 4 Urban cosmopolitanism: The return of the nation in times of terror; 5 Nationalism and its limits: The politics of imagination.
  • 6 Sites of memory and the city as a meleeConclusion: The aftermath of nationalist imaginaries; Notes; References; Index.