Effects of colonialism and the search for an identity in Francisco Sionil José’s The Rosales Saga by Nadifa Shekh Nahji

“…Hence, there is a need for the masses to fight for the social justice that they yearn for. In Benedict Anderson’s article, “Cacique Democracy in the Philippines: Origins and Dreams”, he argues that the ilustrados “had no political power” despite being “wealthy and educated” (8).The growth in national sentiment leads to the rise of revolutionist like Andrés Bonifacio, who “formed a secret revolutionary society” known as Katipunan (Anderson 9). …”
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Fisuras en narrativas románticas y comunidades imaginadas: María (1867) de Jorge Isaacs (1837-1895) y Úrsula (1859) de Firmina dos Reis (1825-1917) by Juana Sañudo Caicedo

“…En el presente trabajo se parte del concepto comunidades imaginadas de Benedict Anderson y su relación con el Romanticismo, en las obras María de Jorge Isaacs y Úrsula de Firmina dos Reis, en las que se construyen narraciones con subjetividades resistentes al poder en términos foucaultianos. …”
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The Loss of Diversity in the Anthropocene Biological and Cultural Dimensions by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

“…Ernest Gellner compared the pre-nationalist world to a painting by Kokoschka (a colour extravaganza) and the world of nationalism as one by Modigliani (calm, monochrome surfaces), while Benedict Anderson showed how the standardisation of language through the medium of printing was a condition for shared national identities. …”
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The Technological Expansion of Sociability: Virtual Communities as Imagined Communities by Camelia Grădinaru

“…The reception of Benedict Anderson’s ideas was very fruitful in many disciplines, and his work provided key concepts that can now throw a clarifying light in some blurry matters. …”
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Opera and british nationalism, 1700-1711 by Thomas McGeary

“…Ils semblent qu’ils aient imaginé ce royaume comme ce que Benedict Anderson a appelé « une communauté politique imaginée ». …”
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A telenovela brasileira: uma nação imaginada by Cláudia de Almeida Mogadouro

“…Tentamos fazer um paralelo entre a idéia de “repertório compartilhado” a partir da audiência massiva da telenovela, presente na obra de Martín-Barbero e Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes e o conceito de “comunidades imaginadas”, proposto por Benedict Anderson e utilizado por Homi Bhabha. Procuramos ainda, rever o percurso da telenovela brasileira, que traz muitas peculiaridades em relação aos outros países da América Latina, potencializando ainda mais as discussões polêmicas que atravessam o país. …”
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Dominance without Hegemony / The Nation and lts Fragments by Mauricio Archila Neira

“…Chatterjee empieza su texto con la crítica del modelo de Benedict Anderson de nación como' comunidad imaginada. …”
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Subversion of Heart of Darkness’s Oriental Discourses by Season of Migration to the North by Halil İbrahim ARPA

“…By compare and contrast, the study will try to show how Conrad’s criticism is superficial, insufficient and paradoxical in the means of not providing a remedy for identity problem unlike Tayeb Salih who resolves rooted troubles of colonialism through “mental miscegenation” as Benedict Anderson put forward many years after Salih’s death.…”
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The young Ibsen's theatre aesthetics - a theatre of the old free and mountainous north by Anette Storli Andersen

“…I disagree with Benedict Anderson when he argues that the development of a printed national language was a basis for an imagined community and a condition for the modern nation state. …”
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Palmares como território de transição na redemocratização by Rafael Garcia Madalen Eiras

“…Portanto, a perspectiva de Benedict Anderson ao pensar a nação como uma comunidade imaginada e Milton Santos entendendo o território como a soma de forças diversas, são acionados em um diálogo com o filme. …”
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Dominance without Hegemony / The Nation and lts Fragments by Mauricio Archila Neira

“…Chatterjee empieza su texto con la crítica del modelo de Benedict Anderson de nación como' comunidad imaginada. …”
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Imagined Transcultural Histories and Geographies by Bronwyn Winter

“…Amidst all the noise of our transnationalisms, hybridities and interstitialities, the idea of what it is to be ‘Australian’ or ‘French’ or ‘Filipino’ or ‘Asian’ reaffirms itself, in mental geographies and constructed histories, as our ‘imagined community’ (to use Benedict Anderson’s famous term [Anderson 1983]), or indeed, ‘imagined Other’, even if it is an imagined ‘Other’ that we would somehow wish to incorporate into our newly hybridised Self.
 
 Using the notion of transcultural mappings, the articles in this special issue investigate this apparent paradox. …”
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Imagined Transcultural Histories and Geographies by Bronwyn Winter

“…Amidst all the noise of our transnationalisms, hybridities and interstitialities, the idea of what it is to be ‘Australian’ or ‘French’ or ‘Filipino’ or ‘Asian’ reaffirms itself, in mental geographies and constructed histories, as our ‘imagined community’ (to use Benedict Anderson’s famous term [Anderson 1983]), or indeed, ‘imagined Other’, even if it is an imagined ‘Other’ that we would somehow wish to incorporate into our newly hybridised Self. …”
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Schooling, Identity, and Nationhood: Karen Mother-Tongue-Based Education in the Thai–Burmese Border Region by Hayso Thako, Tony Waters

“…Karen medium education is an important element establishing what Benedict Anderson called the “imagined community”. With mass Karen literacy, a national consciousness emerged, particularly in areas where schools were sustained. …”
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NATIONALISM FOR CONTEMPORARY INDONESIA: A STUDY ON Y.B. MANGUNWIJAYA’S DURGA UMAYI AND BURUNG-BURUNG RANTAU by Elisabeth Oseanita Pukan, Heri Setyawan

“…To draw the abstraction about nationalism, the researchers refer to Benedict Anderson’s theory. In the “Durga Umayi”, through the character of Iin Sulinda Pertiwi Nusamusbida, Mangunwijaya shows in achieving independence of the country, individuals involved are vulnerable. …”
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THE SPACE IN KOLO GORAH (1851) BY OTO ŠIJAKOVIĆ by Anica Bilić

“…Being based on theories of nations and nationalism by Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm and Anthony D. Smith, the role of this work in the shaping of the national identity has been analyzed from the following thematic aspects: collective past, present and future, mutual space, mutual culture and national man. …”
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A memória nacional lusitana em O vento assobiando nas gruas, de Lídia Jorge by Clenir da Conceição Ribeiro, Eliana da Conceição Tolentino

“…Maurice Halbwachs (1990) para visitar a memória coletiva, bem como a Benedict Anderson (2005), Ernest Renan (2005), Bhabha (1998) e Wander Melo Miranda (2010) para abordar nação e Eduardo Lourenço (1998) para situar o contexto português pós-74.…”
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On territorial images: Erewhon, or, chiastic desire by Andrew Douglas

“…Drawing on Andrea Mubi Brighenti’s (2010) call for an expanded territorology—itself drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987 & 1994) notions of territoriality—the paper emphasises the extent to which territory, more typically recognised as a spatial phenomenon, in fact, arises out of temporal and psychical geneses consolidating differences in modes of repetition—in the case of the nation-state, as Benedict Anderson (1991) has proposed, spanning commonly imagined daily routines, memorialising, and refashioned futures. …”
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Re-conditioning England: George Orwell and the social problem novel by Mechie, C

“…It is informed by Williams' conception of the novel as a "knowable community" and Benedict Anderson's of the nation as an "imagined community". …”

Welcome to the desert of the real: resisting a postcolonial reality in the modern Irish novel by Mansouri, Shahriyar

“…Benedict Anderson claims In Imagined Communities that nationalism and national identity are but fruits of a politicised imagination, and that the nation only acts what the State imagines. …”
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