Benedict Anderson coined the term “imagined communities” to examine the creation and global spread of the nation-state as a collective fiction constructed in the homogeneous and empty time of modernity
From his early application of the ideas of one of his mentors
this ethnically separate community has evolved from a traditional peasantry into “cosmopolitan” villagers who are actively shaping Thai politics
or Khmer Rouge’s infamous S-21 detention-cum-torture centre
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Gendered Entanglements: Revisiting Gender in Rapidly Changing Asia USA Benedict Anderson coined the termEdited by Ragnhild Lund, Philippe Doneys and Bernadette P. Resurreccin 350 pp., Illustrated, 2015 The overall objective of this volume is to revisit gender as a concept that can engage simultaneously with change and continuity in todays Asia, but with greater intellectual reflexivity to examine multiple, intersecting, and complex dimensions of identity and difference, and formerly unacknowledged sources of social power from institutions and their