Imagining Communities : : Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation / / ed. by Claire Weeda, Gemma Blok, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• MitwirkendeR: Blok, Gemma,; Dhoest, Alexander,; Henkes, Barbara,; Jensen, Lotte,; Kuitenbrouwer, Vincent,; Lajosi, Krisztina,; Pas, Niek,; Rensen, Marleen,; Stutje, Klaas,; Weeda, Claire,; Zijlstra, Suze,
• HerausgeberIn: Blok, Gemma,; Kuitenbrouwer, Vincent,; Weeda, Claire,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage and Memory Studies ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.) :; 25 halftones

In his groundbreaking Imagined Communities, first published in 1983, Benedict Anderson argued that members of a community experience a “deep, horizontal camaraderie.” Despite being strangers, members feel connected in a web of imagined experiences. Yet while Anderson’s insights have been hugely influential, they remain abstract: it is difficult to imagine imagined communities. How do they evolve and how is membership constructed cognitively, socially and culturally? How do individuals and communities contribute to group formation through the act of imagining? And what is the glue that holds communities together? Imagining Communities examines actual processes of experiencing the imagined community, exploring its emotive force in a number of case studies. Communal bonding is analyzed, offering concrete insights on where and by whom the nation (or social group) is imagined and the role of individuals therein. Offering eleven empirical case studies, ranging from the premodern to the modern age, this volume looks at and beyond the nation and includes regional as well as transnational communities as well.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Meanwhile in Messianic Time -- 2. Diverse Origins and Shared Circumstances -- 3. Imagining Europe -- 4. Gypsy Music and the Fashioning of the National Community -- 5. ‘Tired, Worried and Overworked’ -- 6. ‘From Heart to Heart’ -- 7. Indonesian Nationalism in the Netherlands, 1920s-1930s -- 8. Time, Rhythm and Ritual -- 9. Stamverwantschap and the Imagination of a White, Transnational Community -- 10. ‘L’Oranie Cycliste, une grande famille’ -- 11. Remembering and Imagining the National Past -- Index