Last year's students' movement has brought to sharp relief the continuing religio-linguistic divide in Bangladesh. Memory plays a central role in shaping nationalism, particularly in post-colonial ...

Our international institutions simply are not designed to address systemic issues indifferent to national borders ...

Should the Awami League (AL), the party that dominated Bangladesh politics for over a decade and a half, be banned outright ...

Benedict Anderson’s concept of the “imagined community” suggests that nationhood is a shared narrative constructed through common institutions and participation. Yet Bangladesh’s post ...

With the advance of the twenty-first century, we have moved deeper into the Fourth Industrial Revolution—a tech-driven epoch ...

To change how we think about such problems calls for both an intellectual and a psychological shift -- beyond the nation-state, or what Benedict Anderson famously called "imagined communities".

As Cornell University political scientist Benedict Anderson argued in 1983, a nation is ultimately an “imagined community,” because we can never know everyone within it. The feeling of ...

As Cornell University political scientist Benedict Anderson argued in 1983, a nation is ultimately an “imagined community” because we can never know everyone within it. The feeling of national ...

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Critically drawing on Benedict Anderson's influential concept of "imagined communities", we will be asking questions like: what happens when shared, commonplace narratives of nation-ness are turned ...