| Abstrakt: |
Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities has become the bible of nationalism in which he examines the origin and spread of nationalism in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The purpose of this paper it to go beyond Anderson's colonial and postcolonial time periods and see to what degree his perspective of 'imagining community' helps us explain events in a modern nation today, in this case Austria. As we will see, the time frame, reasons and circumstances for 'imagining nation' are different in Austria; however, we will discover how this powerful idea of 'imagining community' remains the same today as it was in colonial and post-colonial periods and how it can be used not only to create nation but also to re-create one like in Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
