An imagined community…?
on John Calloway (Nepal), 10/Feb/2013 20:09, 34 days ago
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What binds a nation together? Is it defined by allegiance to a flag, history and tradition or a constructed narrative about the nation-state? Can the ‘truth’ of national identity be found in fixed racial categories, myths about origins, and certain primordial ‘facts’:- or must it be imagined into existence? “(The nation)… is imagined because the members [...]
