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Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities 091919
Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities 091919
Benedict Anderson
* Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities traces the origins of the rise of national
consciousness to the modern-industrial age of the Enlightenment in Western Europe.
Presentation Overview
Chapter 1: Introduction
Discussion Questions
Chapter 1: Introduction
*The issues concerned with the term nationalism.
• Capitalism
• Piracy
• Lexicographers, grammarians, and composers were producers for the print market,
they were linked to the consuming public.
• The intelligentsias
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Chapter 8: Patriotism & Racism
• The creation and global spread of the imagined communities of nationality, and
explores the processes that created these communities:
1. Do you agree with Anderson’s definition of the nation? Why? Why not?
2. To what extent do you agree with Benedict Anderson and his view that nationalism is a force for
good?
3. How does this compare with Turkey and Turkish nationalist movements? Can you give some
examples?
4. Do you agree that cultural events create and reinforce imagined communities, for example,
how effective was the London 2012 Olympics in conveying an imagined community?
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5. How do you see the “imagined communities” growing and spreading their nationalism in new
areas in the modern world? Can you relate it to Turkish context?