The persistence of nationalism : from imagined communities to urban encounters / Angharad Closs Stephens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephens, Angharad Closs, author.

Series:

Interventions (Routledge (Firm))

Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism.

Internationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 multi

Contents:

Introduction: the persistence of nationalist imaginaries

Beyond "imagined communities": nationalism and the politics of knowledge

Weberian tales: disenchantment, mastery and meaning

Rousseau's legacies: the politics of time, community and loss

Urban cosmopolitanism: the return of the nation in times of terror

Nationalism and its limits: the politics of imagination

Sites of memory and the city as a melee

Conclusion: the aftermath of nationalist imaginaries.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-69199-5

0-203-57538-5

1-299-31967-X

1-136-69192-8

9780203575383

OCLC:

831117926