Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization Paperback / softback - 2001 - 1st Edition
by John D. Kelly
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- Title Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization
- Author John D. Kelly
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date September 1, 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780226429908
- ISBN 9780226429908 / 0226429903
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.97 x 6.04 x 0.57 in (22.78 x 15.34 x 1.45 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Oceania
- Library of Congress subjects Nationalism, Decolonization
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00013098
- Dewey Decimal Code 325.961
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First line
When the twentieth century began, the world did not consist of "nation-states."
From the rear cover
In the year 2000, Fiji was the site of chaos: a coup d'tat; martial law; near civil war; local takeovers of police stations, factories, resorts, even military bases. Why has the social contract of the nation-state been unsustainable there? What is this social contract in real history, especially since World War II? This book reconfigures the issues for the anthropology of nations and nationalism, away from nationalism as the culture of modernity, toward the nation-state as an artifact of American power. Benedict Anderson's vastly influential Imagined Communities led a generation of scholars to study national imaginaries, print capitalism, shared memories and identities. Now, Represented Communities offers an extensive and devastating critique of Anderson's approach. The authors focus not on imagination but on legal, ritual, and electoral representation in the formation of communities. They stress not modernity, but decolonization. They track consequences of nationalist sentiments, but also of nation-state realities. Their emphasis is not on memory and identity, but on will and power. Fiji's story is one of legally entrenched racism and struggles for, against, and about democracy. Its dramatic crises reveal the force and limits of changing global political structures, empires to nation-states. Sophisticated and impassioned, this book portrays the era of decolonization not as the last wave as modern nationalism, but as the actual onset of the nation-state, with a fundamentally different politics of representation.