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The Technological Expansion of Sociability: Virtual Communities as Imagined Communities [PDF]

open access: yesAcademicus International Scientific Journal, 2016
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]

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2017
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]

open access: yes, 2015
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’

open access: yesABEI Journal, 2003
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

open access: yesLa Bretagne Linguistique, 2022
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]

open access: yes, 2003
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.)

open access: yesSlavia Meridionalis, 2019
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 ?

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2020
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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The Facebook Groups and Pages of Malagasy Migrants in France: Hubs of Peer-to-Peer and Spontaneous Solidarity

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
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

open access: yesQualitative Sociology Review, 2019
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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