What is an example of an imagined community?

Table of Contents:

1. What is an example of an imagined community?
2. How is a nation an imagined community?
3. Who argued that nation is an imagined community?
4. Why is imagined community limited?
5. Is the EU an imagined community?

What is an example of an imagined community?

Nation as an imagined community He defined a nation as "an imagined political community". ... Members hold in their minds a mental image of their affinity: for example, the nationhood felt with other members of your nation when your "imagined community" participates in a larger event such as the Olympic Games.

How is a nation an imagined community?

Defines the nation as an "imagined political community": imagined because the members of the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.

Who argued that nation is an imagined community?

Benedict Anderson

Why is imagined community limited?

The imagined community is limited because regardless of size it is never taken to be co-extensive with humanity itself—not even extreme ideologies such as Nazism, with its pretensions to world dominance, imagine this; in fact, as Giorgio Agamben has argued such ideologies tend to be premised on a generalization of an ...

Is the EU an imagined community?

After briefly reviewing the status of contemporary theory on European identity, the authors apply to the European Union policies one of major social theories on cohesive, artificially forged communities with a detectable common identity as a precondition and a side-effect—Benedict Anderson's 'imagined community'—to ...