Represented Communities

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Fiji and World Decolonization

By Martha Kaplan and John D. Kelly

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Represented Communities by Martha Kaplan and John D. Kelly challenges Benedict Anderson's influential theory from Imagined Communities about how nations are formed. Through an incisive critique focusing on Fiji's colonial history and political upheavals from World War II through the 2000 coups, the authors argue that Anderson’s emphasis on cultural imagination overlooks crucial struggles over legal rights and political representation in postcolonial states. The book highlights how the concept of the "self-determining" nation-state evolved with the formation of the United Nations, reshaping political representation globally.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in anthropology, nationalism studies, postcolonial history, and political science, especially those seeking a deeper understanding of contemporary nationalisms beyond cultural narratives.

This volume offers and extensive critique of Benedict Anderson's deepitions of colonial history, his comparative method, and his political anthropology.

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In 1983, Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities revolutionised the anthropology of nationalism. Anderson argued that "print capitalism" fostered nations as imagined communities in a modular form that became the culture of modernity.

Now, in Represented Communities, John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan offer an extensive and devastating critique of Anderson's depictions of colonial history, his comparative method, and his political anthropology. The authors build a forceful argument around events in Fiji from World War II to the 2000 coups, showing how focus on "imagined communities" underestimates colonial history and obscures the struggle over legal rights and political representation in postcolonial nation-states. They demonstrate that the "self-determining" nation-state actually emerged with the postwar construction of the United Nations, fundamentally changing the politics of representation.

Sophisticated and impassioned, this book will further anthropology's contribution to the understanding of contemporary nationalisms.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226429908

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2001

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 2.0mm

Width: 15.0mm

Height: 22.0mm

Weight: 369g

Pages: 240

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Australian & Pacific History Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military John D. Kelly Martha Kaplan Non-Fiction

About the Author

John D. Kelly is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago and the author of A Politics of Virtue: Hinduism, Sexuality, and Countercolonial Discourse in Fiji.

Martha Kaplan is an associate professor of anthropology at Vassar College and the author of Neither Cargo nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji.