Imagined Communities by Anderson

Renz Ubalde

IMAGINED COMMUNITES MAIN POINTS

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"Imagined Communities" by: Anderson

NATIONALISM

imagined political community that is both sovereign and limited

Marxist and liberal attempts explain nationalism as "unsatisfactory"

CULTURAL ROOTS

Dynastic realm

its legitimacy is derived from divinity rather than populations

Monarchy

Kingship

Pre-modern empires and kingdoms

Sovereignties

Old Legitimacy

Religious Community

declines religious community because of the explorations of the non-European world and the slow disappearance of sacred language

Sacred communites

Sacred texts such as Bibles and Quran

Apprehensions of time

The replacement of Sacred communities and dynastic realm

Nationalist Movement

The Father of Filipino nationalism, Jose Rizal wrote Noli Me Tangere

Christendom assumes its universal form

Marxist and liberal attempts explain nationalism as "unsatisfactory"

Marxism: method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of histrorical development

END GOALS

Materialism

Commitment to political practice

VERNACULARIZATION

Print-capitalism

Print-Media

construction of a shared national identity of individuals

Reformation

Admin Reforms

Nationalism brings a nation-state as imagined community

Nation-state as imagined community promotes Nationalism

NATION

imagined political community that is both sovereign and limited

IMAGINED

the impossibility of all members in a nation to "know each other"

LIMITED

No single nation can accomodate all mankind

political boundaries is subjected where each nation has its own geographical location

SOVEREIGN

Nation always strives for freedom

breaking away from a religious beliefs of those in higher power

COMMUNITY

a nation is think of as a horizontal companionship of equals

cultural constructions that lead people to believe they have a common heritage and collective responsibility to the nation

nothing natural but a concept created by human beings

bounded by political boundaries and established based on shared experiences