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The Persistence of Nationalism: From Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters book cover

1st Edition

The Persistence of Nationalism From Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters

By Angharad Closs Stephens Copyright 2013
192 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Part One: Unpacking Nationalist Imaginaries 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 Two: Contesting Nationalist Imaginaries 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 melee Conclusion: the aftermath of nationalist imaginaries

Biography

Angharad Closs Stephens is a Lecturer in the Geography Department at Durham University, UK.

The Persistence of Nationalism convincingly shows a way out of the either/or quandary between nationalism and cosmopolitanism by bringing the city back at the centre of the debate. By investigating how people actually develop elective affinities, affective investments and identifications through quotidian encounters, it shows how people negotiate workable terms of living together. This is the best critical introduction to nationalism from an urban perspective.

Engin Isin, The Open University, UK 　

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