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Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 – December 13, 2015) was an Anglo-Irish political scientist and historian who lived and taught in the United States. Anderson is best known for his 1983 book Imagined Communities, which explored the origins of nationalism.
An imagined community is a concept developed by Benedict Anderson in his 1983 book Imagined Communities to analyze nationalism. Anderson depicts a nation as a socially-constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of a group.
May 6, 2024 · Benedict Anderson (born August 26, 1936, Kunming, China—died December 12/13, 2015, Batu, Indonesia) was an Irish political scientist, best known for his influential work on the origins of nationalism.
May 19, 2016 · May 19, 2016. Benedict Anderson’s View of Nationalism. The child of late empire, who transformed the field of area studies, lived a life beyond boundaries. Scott Sherman. Benedict Anderson...
Dec 14, 2015 · Benedict Anderson, a scholar of Southeast Asia who transformed the study of nationalism by positing that nations were “imagined communities” that arose from the fateful interplay of capitalism...
Dec 13, 2015 · Benedict Anderson, who died yesterday at age 79 in Malang, Indonesia, is internationally famous for his 1983 book Imagined Communities, far and away the most influential study of nationalism.
In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality. Anderson explores the processes that created these...
Dec 15, 2015 · Benedict Anderson, a Cornell professor emeritus in government who wrote “Imagined Communities,” the book that set the pace for the academic study of nationalism, died Dec. 13 in East Java, Indonesia.
Benedict Anderson (born August 26, 1936, Kunming, China—died December 12/13, 2015, Batu, Indonesia) was an Irish political scientist, best known for his influential work on the origins of nationalism. Anderson’s family heritage crosses national lines.
In Memoriam: Benedict Anderson (1936-2015) As a historian-novelist, Ben was drawn to the contingent constellations of people and events, reveling in their surprising and unexpected juxtapositions. All of these generated not only alternative and parallel universes to what had happened; they also opened up doors into worlds that could have happened.
