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Political Theory


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Political Theory
This paper looks at the extent to which the concept of a nation is an "imagined community". It debates whether our national identity is a figment of the imagination or an objective reality.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages) | 18 sources | MLA | 2002 United Kingdom


Paper Summary:

By exploring the idea of a nation state as an 'imagined community' this study tackles the difficult issue of national identity. It explores the cultural characteristics that contribute to the boundary construction of collective ideologies - territory, race, language and others. Drawing from a wide range of sources, the paper considers how crucial the feelings and perceptions of nationalism are to the objective existence of the state.

From the Paper:

"Anyone can declare a nation into existence." (Beissinger 1988: 173). There are many different definitions of a "nation". This essay aims to weigh up Benedict Anderson's definition of a nation as an "imagined community" and explore its claims. Criticisms of subjective definitions are investigated, in a brave attempt to consider other perspectives. A "nation-state" is separate from the "nation" under discussion; it refers to a political set-up with appropriate institutions involved in governance over a spatially bounded territory and the policing of it.

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APA Citation:

Political Theory (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.co.uk/Essay-Political-Theory/24006

MLA Citation:

"Political Theory" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.co.uk/Essay-Political-Theory/24006>




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