Imagined Communities
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2006 | No Comments »
又到了交报告的时候。突发奇想，出了研究新加坡人认同感的题目。写了之后开始后悔，真的好难。。。历史短、著作不多是一回事，身处岛国又如何从世界看岛国呢？
翻了几本经典名著，查找了新闻资料库，总算交了一篇六千字的功课。
Benedict Anderson has described nation-ness and nationalism as cultural artifacts of a particular kind. Nation = an imagined political community, and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign; with imagined communities of nations replacing religious communities and dynastic realms when modern states evolved.
History plays an important role in nation-building process. French historian Ernest Renan suggested [...]
