Theories of Nationalism

IMAGINED COMMUNITIES
Key Concepts:

Nationality, Nation-ness,
Nationalism
are CULTURAL ARTEFACTS of a PARTICULAR KIND?

What does this mean?

How did B. Anderson define the NATION?

 IMAGINED political community

Inherently limited and sovereign

Why imagined?
Why Limited?
Why Sovereign?
Why a community?
Before the “ Nation” came in the18th century, how did
the people identify themselves
2 CULTURAL SYSTEMS:
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES ( Sacred language and
(Written script)
DYNASTIC REALMS
 Print Capitalism and Nationalism
How did Nationalism spread across Europe and outside
Europe?
PRINT CAPITALISM
NATIONALISM
Created a unified fields of exchange and communication

Gave way to the new fixity of language

 Created languages –of- power of a kind different from

different from the older administrative vernaculars
POPULAR
NATIONALISM
Popular Perceptions of Jose Rizal

Jose Rizal Vs. Dr . Jose Rizal ( Dr. Uliman)

Rizal as the “ Risen Tagalog Christ”

Rizal as the Source of POWER:
In a country without a tradition of hierarchy,
Rizal became the necessary center, the “
Ancestor” in the sense of being source of
kapangyarihan for leaders of peasant
movements against both foreign and local
oppressors.