eprintid: 10105060
rev_number: 28
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datestamp: 2020-07-15 14:05:24
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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
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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   
 
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