eprintid: 10105060 rev_number: 28 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/10/50/60 datestamp: 2020-07-15 14:05:24 lastmod: 2021-01-14 11:40:11 status_changed: 2021-01-14 11:40:11 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Collins, M title: Imagining Worlds beyond the Nation-State ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F28 keywords: decolonization, nation-state, nationalism, internationalism, race, race thinking note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: In addressing the relationship between national and international worldmaking political projects, Adom Getachew's impressive and thought-provoking recent book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, seeks to move beyond recent debates between those who posit an inevitability thesis about the triumph of the nation-state after 1945, on the one hand, and those who insist on the possibilities of alternative pathways, on the other. The argument is compelling in demonstrating that the transcendence of race hierarchies was integral to arguments and aspirations about meaningful sovereignty. Getachew's central characters were visionaries in terms of imagining possible worlds beyond the nation-state. The book is less convincing in demonstrating that an intractable nationalism and indeed underlying racial thinking were not serious impediments to the achievement of these goals. date: 2020-12-01 date_type: published publisher: Duke University Press official_url: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-8747559 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1796814 doi: 10.1215/1089201X-8747559 lyricists_name: Collins, Michael lyricists_id: MCOLL73 actors_name: Collins, Michael actors_id: MCOLL73 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East volume: 40 number: 3 pagerange: 601-606 citation: Collins, M; (2020) Imagining Worlds beyond the Nation-State. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East , 40 (3) pp. 601-606. 10.1215/1089201X-8747559 <https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-8747559>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10105060/9/Collins_Making%20Worlds%20pre-publication%20text.pdf