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In his groundbreaking Imagined Communities, first published in
1983, Benedict Anderson argued that members of a community
experience a "deep, horizontal camaraderie." Despite being
strangers, members feel connected in a web of imagined experiences.
Yet while Anderson's insights have been hugely influential, they
remain abstract: it is difficult to imagine imagined communities.
How do they evolve and how is membership constructed cognitively,
socially and culturally? How do individuals and communities
contribute to group formation through the act of imagining? And
what is the glue that holds communities together? Imagining
Communities examines actual processes of experiencing the imagined
community, exploring its emotive force in a number of case studies.
Communal bonding is analysed, offering concrete insights on where
and by whom the nation (or social group) is imagined and the role
of individuals therein. Offering eleven empirical case studies,
ranging from the premodern to the modern age, this volume looks at
and beyond the nation and includes regional as well as
transnational communities as well.
Offering important new understandings of the Indonesian
independence struggle, this fine-grained study explores the
international activities in the capitals of interwar Europe of the
Perhimpoenan Indonesia (PI), an Indonesian nationalist student
organisation based in the Netherlands. Operating in a vibrant
political environment, the PI interacted with different
anticolonial movements in cities across Europe. Focusing on the
period between 1917 and 1931, the book follows the personal
journeys of different students to cities such as Zurich, Paris,
Brussels and Berlin as they established contacts, joined
associations and attended international conferences. Here, the
complex reality of movement building is examined, going beyond
superficial suggestions of contact and collaboration. The study
shows that the activities of the PI reverberated in the Indonesian
political landscape, where the new collaborations in Europe were
followed with great interest. In this way, the book offers new
findings for multiple audiences - Indonesianists and scholars of
anticolonial resistance alike. However, it also demonstrates that
the political awakening of Indonesian elites should be understood
not just as an indigenous response to Dutch rule but also as part
of global anticolonial movements and struggles.
Offering important new understandings of the Indonesian
independence struggle, this fine-grained study explores the
international activities in the capitals of interwar Europe of the
Perhimpoenan Indonesia (PI), an Indonesian nationalist student
organisation based in the Netherlands. Operating in a vibrant
political environment, the PI interacted with different
anticolonial movements in cities across Europe. Focusing on the
period between 1917 and 1931, the book follows the personal
journeys of different students to cities such as Zurich, Paris,
Brussels and Berlin as they established contacts, joined
associations and attended international conferences. Here, the
complex reality of movement building is examined, going beyond
superficial suggestions of contact and collaboration. The study
shows that the activities of the PI reverberated in the Indonesian
political landscape, where the new collaborations in Europe were
followed with great interest. In this way, the book offers new
findings for multiple audiences - Indonesianists and scholars of
anticolonial resistance alike. However, it also demonstrates that
the political awakening of Indonesian elites should be understood
not just as an indigenous response to Dutch rule but also as part
of global anticolonial movements and struggles.
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