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New Imagined Community
Uriya Shavit
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Description for New Imagined Community
Hardcover. Advanced media technologies have transformed immigrants' relations with their departure and arrival societies. This title explores how Muslim-Arab religious scholars have developed over the years a theory that tasks Muslims living in the West with specific duties within the framework of their anticipated global Muslim nation. Num Pages: 209 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460.
Advanced media technologies -- satellite technology and the Internet -- have transformed immigrants' relations with their departure and arrival societies. Part I -- "Imagining Nation States from Afar" -- extends Benedict Anderson's model of the nation as an imagined community; discussion focuses on how immigrants are enabled to imagine their native national communities from afar, almost as if they never left their homelands. As a result, new typologies of migrants are created, such as the passive trans-national. A comprehensive analytic framework for the role of advanced media technologies in fostering relations between immigrants and their national communities of origin is ... Read more
Advanced media technologies -- satellite technology and the Internet -- have transformed immigrants' relations with their departure and arrival societies. Part I -- "Imagining Nation States from Afar" -- extends Benedict Anderson's model of the nation as an imagined community; discussion focuses on how immigrants are enabled to imagine their native national communities from afar, almost as if they never left their homelands. As a result, new typologies of migrants are created, such as the passive trans-national. A comprehensive analytic framework for the role of advanced media technologies in fostering relations between immigrants and their national communities of origin is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
209
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845193287
SKU
V9781845193287
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99-50
About Uriya Shavit
Uriya Shavit is a fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and teaches Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University. He specialises in the study of Muslim minorities in Europe and of democratic discourses in Arab societies. He is also the author of several articles on Islam in the West and democracy Arab conceptualisation of ... Read more
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