ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Imagined Communities, Nationstates
23 Mar 2018
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Nation-states are one possibility out of many potential political formations. An alternative definition of the nation: the nation is an. Imagined political community"; it is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign (benedict anderson, imagined communities : a nation-state" is a political community that has clearly defined territorial borders and a centralized authority, nationalism. The world view" of members of a nation-state. Nationalism describes (1) the belief in a national identity and emotional investments in that national identity, (2) the actions that members of a nation take to achieve (or sustain) self-determination as a nation: benedict anderson, imagined communities . These factors laid the bases for national consciousness: nation-states and economic trade. States became the building blocks of an emerging global economic network. Modern nation-states developed out of partnerships between ruling elites and merchant classes. Nation-states used military force to open and maintain markets: violence and the nation-state. The formation of the nation-state is fundamentally tied to violence and conflict:
