imagined communities reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

This interplay led to print languages that, for Anderson, facilitated national consciousness in at least 3 ways:

In Chapter 3, Anderson discusses the origins of national consciousness in the intersections between capitalism (as a system of production and productive relations), print (as a technology of communication), and what he calls the “fatality of human linguistic diversity” (wherein the myriad of spoken vernaculars was assembled into far fewer print vernaculars beyond the previous Latin hegemony) (43). He then traces their origins in practices from the Americas, both Spanish and Anglo, then their adaptations in linguistic nationalisms of Europe, official nationalisms in service of the imperial nation, and post-WWII ex-colonial nationalisms.

He goes on to locate the origin of national consciousness at the intersection of capitalism, print, and the fatality of linguistic diversity engendered by the former two. Such understanding of time, for Anderson, is epitomized in the development of the novel and the newspaper in print capitalism. He begins by defining it as “an imagined political community–and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” (6) that has cultural roots in the decline and territorialization of religion and sacred-script, the de-authorizing of monarchical centers as the natural way to organize political relations in space, and the delinking temporally of cosmology and history such that humans could now imagine themselves in a simultaneous, homogenous, calendrical time that connects folks who’ve never met. Eschewing interpretations that it should be lumped in with other political “isms” such as Marxism or Liberalism, Anderson sees it more closely aligned with phenomena like religion and kinship. In this classic book, Anderson works to trace the cultural, political, and technological conditions that gave rise to Nationalism in the late 18th century Europe and continue to make it such a resilient phenomenon today. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. OL1702855W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.39 Pages 246 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1844674843 Urn:lcp:imaginedcommunit00ande:epub:8c704fd6-0103-4cb5-b9b3-bb0cfce7c8e0 Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier imaginedcommunit00ande Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0xp7xw8d Isbn 0860913295ĩ780860915461 Lccn 91010900 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition

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