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The Persistence of Nationalism - From Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters (Hardcover)
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The Persistence of Nationalism - From Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters (Hardcover)
Series: Interventions
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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 multiculturalism. In order to avoid the
grip of 'nationalist thinking', we need to re-open the question of
what it means to imagine community. Set against the backdrop of the
imaginative geographies of the War in Terror and the new beginning
promised by the Presidency of Barack Obama, the book shows how
critical interventions often work in collaboration with nationalist
politics, even when the aim is to resist nationalism. It claims
that a nationalist imaginary includes powerful understandings of
freedom, subjectivity, sovereignty and political space/time which
must also be placed under question if we want to avoid reproducing
ideas about 'us' and 'them'. Drawing on insights from feminist,
cultural and postcolonial studies as well as critical approaches to
International Relations and Geography, this book presents a unique
and refreshing approach to the politics of nationalism.
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