reimagined communities
what does "national identity" really even mean, anyway?
Anyone who has ever taken a freshman-level political science course has likely encountered the work of Benedict Anderson, the Anglo-Irish political philosopher whose 1983 book Imagined Communities famously argued that the “nation” as we understand it today is “an imagined political community…imagined because the mem…
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