TY - JOUR AU - Moncusí, Albert PY - 2017/02/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Imagined communities against the tide? The questioned political projection of nationalism JF - Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat JA - Debats VL - 1 IS - 0 SE - SPECIAL ISSUE 1 DO - UR - https://revistadebats.net/article/view/1687 SP - AB - <p>This article deals with the validity of Anderson’s definition of imagined<br />communities and the future of imagination typical of nationalism. It is<br />based on bibliographic review and research on the case of Cerdanya.<br />Three questions of Anderson’s definition are revised: the limitation of the<br />nation, its supposedly inherent sovereignty and the sense of community<br />among unknown people. In this last point, the text focuses also on<br />the consequences that imagined community is embodied for known<br />people every day. It concludes that the production of local identities<br />and dynamics in global, local and regional level represents a challenge<br />for the political projection of imagined communities. Nevertheless, that<br />production is not absolutely questioned. Denationalisation dynamics are<br />produced in sovereignty and delimitation becomes more porous but it<br />carries on the cultural production of community limits by education, army<br />and communications. In addition, some global alternatives to national<br />communities arise, but the nationalist grammar remains intact as a<br />base of community categories and identifications.</p> ER -