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Represented Communities - Fiji and World Decolonization (Paperback, New)
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Represented Communities - Fiji and World Decolonization (Paperback, New)
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In the year 2000, Fiji was the site of chaos: a coup d'etat;
martial law; near civil war; local takeovers of police stations,
factories, resorts, even military bases. Why has the social
contract of the nation-state been unsustainable there? What is this
social contract in real history, especially since World War II?
This book reconfigures the issues for the anthropology of nations
and nationalism, away from nationalism as the culture of modernity,
toward the nation-state as an artifact of American power. Benedict
Anderson's vastly influential "Imagined Communities" led a
generation of scholars to study national imaginaries, print
capitalism, shared memories and identities. Now, "Represented
Communities" offers an extensive and devastating critique of
Anderson's approach. The authors focus not on imagination but on
legal, ritual, and electoral representation in the formation of
communities. They stress not modernity, but decolonization. They
track consequences of nationalist sentiments, but also of
nation-state realities. Their emphasis is not on memory and
identity, but on will and power.
Fiji's story is one of legally entrenched racism and struggles for,
against, and about democracy. Its dramatic crises reveal the force
and limits of changing global political structures, empires to
nation-states. Sophisticated and impassioned, this book portrays
the era of decolonization not as the last wave as modern
nationalism, but as the actual onset of the nation-state, with a
fundamentally different politics of representation.
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