...political consequence of all the rapid changes I have been discussing concerns the migrants themselves. Not least as a result of the ethnicization of political...classical nation-state project from a different direction. A striking illustration is the fateful recent destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya, which plunged...

...political community— and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. BENEDICT ANDERSON, 1991 Not least as a result of the ethnicization of political...call long-distance nationalism is visibly emerging. BENEDICT ANDERSON, 1994 MODERN EGYPT is a nation in the sense meant by Anderson (1 991 , 6-7). It is...

...structure relations across national borders. Yet they are far from being generically cosmopolitan. Benedict Anderson has pointed out that, "Not least as a result...classical nation-state project from a different direction" (1998: 73). For these reasons I emphasize the imbrication of media with transnational subjectifi cation....

...structure relations across national borders. Yet they are far from being genetically cosmopolitan. Benedict Anderson has pointed out that, "Not least as a result...the ethnicization of political life in the wealthy, pos tindustrial states, what one can call long-distance nationalism is visibly emerging. This type...