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    "subtitle": "Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation",
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    "description": "In his groundbreaking Imagined Communities, first published in 1983, Benedict Anderson argued that members of a community\nexperience a \u0178deep, horizontal camaraderie.\u0152 Despite being strangers, members feel connected in a web of imagined experiences.\n\n\n\nYet while Anderson\u2019s insights have been hugely influential, they remain abstract: it is difficult to imagine imagined communities.\nHow do they evolve and how is membership constructed cognitively, socially and culturally? How do individuals and communities\ncontribute to group formation through the act of imagining? And what is the glue that holds communities together?\n\n\n\nImagining Communities examines actual processes of experiencing the imagined community, exploring its emotive force in a number of case studies. Communal bonding is analysed, offering concrete insights on where and by whom the nation (or social group) is imagined and the role of individuals therein. Offering eleven empirical case studies, ranging from the premodern to the modern age, this volume looks at and beyond the nation and includes regional as well as transnational communities as well.",
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