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The paper 'nationalism and Political Economy' seeks to evaluate Lenin's theory of imperialism, which came amid an intensification of European engagement with the surrounding where domestic capital was concentrated in large monopolistic corporations that were led by large financial companies.... Economic nationalism can be comprehended in terms of relationships that links national identity to political economy; thus, this approach focuses on nation and understanding of the national identity as being rooted in the nation's political economy (Polanyi 28)....
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Heroism and the willingness of somebody to die for his nation is one good example that imagination plays a pertinent role in this concept of a nation, national identity, and nationalism (Anderson).... The paper 'Establishing National Identity on a Nation-State' discusses the distinctive attributes and characteristics of a certain group, either through lineage, origin, or parentage.... Benedict Anderson defined a nation as an "imagined political community"....
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Sporting competition arguably provides the primary expression of imagined communities; the nation (at least temporarily) turning real in the domain of sports.... Brief History of Sports and nationalism of United Kingdom and Republic of IrelandHistorically, sporting identities have reflected also the national identities within the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.... ugby union as a global team sport with a recognized and established World Cup is considered the most significant sporting arena whereby its imagined community of Ireland is turned real (Anderson, 1991)....
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In the book Imagined Communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism (1991: 6), the author: British social anthropologist, Benedict Anderson defines nation as “an imagined political community – and imagined as both politically limited and sovereign”.... ... ...
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Imagined Communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism.... reflections on the Revolution in France.... This follows that, the spirit of revolution for the benefit for all the member of the society is likened to the spirit of nationalism.... The aspect of an imaginary community enhances the spirit of nationalism (Benedict, 26)....
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?Imagined Communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism.... Anderson elaborated that this is a product of print capitalism that facilitated discourse and in the process, resulted to a common mental image of affinity which is the root of nationalism (Anderson 1991, 10).... This common language wrought by the discourse of print capitalism brought about the idea and notion of imagined Community, the perception of kinship and affinity towards a bigger group of which an individual has not came in contact with its members....
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Imagined Communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism.... he Social Circulation of Media Discourse and the Mediation of communities.... Media, according to Anderson, plays the role of creating as large-scale imagined society, through the creation of information channels that make the people identify with one another.... In this respect, media plays the role of enlarging the imagined society.... In this respect, media plays the role of enlarging the imagined society, since the information channels serves to make a large number of people share a collective identity, for example in the names of their cities (places) and types of persons (culture), which eventually make the people share in a collectivity....
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The research 'Rugby Union and nationalism in Ireland' will explore the complex inter-relationship between sport, culture, and national identity with particular reference to rugby union in Ireland.... The author of the paper tells that rugby union as a global team sport with a recognized and established World Cup is considered the most significant sporting arena whereby its imagined community of Ireland is turned real.... This symbolic historical ritual of narrations is consequently loaded with the 'recollection of shared experiences' of a people in the form of an 'imagined community', which gives meaning onto the nation....
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