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The Technological Expansion of Sociability: Virtual Communities as Imagined Communities [PDF]
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. The expression “imagined community” has known a remarkable proliferation, a
Camelia Grădinaru
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An imagined community of practice: Online discourse among wheelchair users [PDF]
People with disabilities often live in local communities primarily made up of people without disabilities: in the absence of a geographic community of people with disabilities, the internet becomes a valuable tool for connecting individuals across both ...
Leslie E. Cochrane
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Imagining biosocial communities: HIV, risk and gay and bisexual men in the North East of England [PDF]
Many critics have charted an increasing biomedical and individualised approach to HIV prevention among gay and bisexual men, citing a significant shift in HIV policy and practice away from the community-based approaches to HIV prevention which ...
Young, Ingrid
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Textual Anthropology and the ‘Imagined Community’
This paper enquires into ‘textual anthropology’ as a new way of reading Irish texts. It has been prompted by two papers given in Sydney last October by Antony Tatlow, Professor of Comparative Literature at TCD, and a passage from the Introduction to ...
Peter Kuch
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La Gaeltacht : une communauté imaginée
This article analyses the Gaeltacht category from existing literature on the subject and ethnographic sociolinguistic fieldwork in Irish courses. It points out that the Gaeltacht can not be apprehended solely through linguistic criteria, but must be ...
Kevin Petit Cahill
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Shiina Rinzo: imaging hope and despair in occupation Japan [PDF]
With defeat in the Pacific War in 1945, the very notion of ‘community’ (as described by Benedict Anderson) in Japan was under threat, the future of the nation dependent, as never before, on the response of the international community.
Williams, M.
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Tumačenje sjećanja i zamišljanje zajednica u poslijeratnim vukovarskim ritualima (1992. – 2015.)
Interpretation of memory and imagining communities in post-war rituals in Vukovar (1992-2015) Modern rituals are exceptionally complex events; the actors performing them have a narrative and imaginative connection with the space where the performance ...
Mateo Žanić
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« Wales is an artefact created by Broadcasting » : la BBC comme acteur d’une identité galloise ?
On 13 February 1923, the British Broadcasting Company, the British Broadcasting Corporation to be, started broadcasting programmes in Wales and it became a single unit in the BBC’s organisation in 1937, until BBC Wales Cymru was launched in 1964.
Stéphanie Bory
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How do social platforms such as Facebook help migrant communities cope with the adversities faced during the migration journey? This is the question that drove this study, which explores the on- and offline experiences of Malagasy migrants in France ...
Fortunat Miarintsoa Andrianimanana +1 more
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Imagined Engagements: Interpreting the Musical Relationship with the Canadian North
In this article, we extend Benedict Anderson’s notion of imagined communities to examine the idea of an “imagined engagement” between or among people and groups that have not met.
Jeffrey van den Scott +1 more
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