Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship 022614481X, 9780226144818

In this book anthropologist Victoria Bernal reveals the ways that forms of nationhood, strategies of state power, and mo

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Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship
022614481X, 9780226144818

How is the internet transforming the relationships between citizens and states? What happens to politics when internatio

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"Drawing on the Athenian tradition of 'wielding citizenship as a weapon to defend a contingently defined polis

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A premier debate in the present conjuncture of globalization has been the prospect of ‘post nation’ and the obsolescence

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Reconceptualises instability in relation to cyberspace Assesses the risks of inadvertent escalation in cyberspaceExamine

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