Beskrivelse
In the highly influential book Imagined Communities (1991), Benedict Anderson discusses the spread of nationalism across the globe - from the Americas to Europe and further, to the colonial domains in Asia and Africa. In general, Anderson associates the emergence of nationalist feeling with changing apprehensions of time and the role of print capitalism. More specifically, in relation to the emergence of nationalism in the colonial domains, he accentuates the importance of the colonial state. Anderson, however, is not concerned with the often studied link between colonialism and anti-colonial nationalism. Rather, he is interested in how the colonial state, in a much more subtle manner, fundamentally engendered 'the grammar' of the nationalisms that eventually rose to combat colonialism. Anderson's approach to the emergence of nationalism in a colonial context has been met with criticism by, among others, Partha Chatterjee and in a recent publication on theories of nationalism, the author notes that Anderson 'misinterprets the rise of anti-colonial nationalism' (Özkirimli 2000). Is this a fair criticism? And how does Anderson actually understand the emergence of nationalism in a colonial setting? I will be addressing these questions in my presentation. In that connection I will be accentuating the existing differences between the first edition of Imagined Communites (1983) and the revised version published in 1991. Besides correcting factual errors Anderson did not revise the original text. But he added a new preface and two new chapters. In one of these (chapter 10) Anderson develops and clarifies his previous analysis of the emergence of nationalism in a colonial context. Finally, I will also be drawing on other parts of Anderson's work - among others his latest book Under Three Flags (2005) - in order to draw a more complete picture of Anderson's approach to colonial nationalism.| Periode | 7 nov. 2008 |
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| Begivenhedstitel | Un-finished nations in Southeast Asia |
| Begivenhedstype | Konference |
| Arrangør | Centre for International Development Studies |
| Placering | Roskilde, DanmarkVis på kort |