The Spectre of Comparisons — chapter on long-distance nationalism

Anderson, Benedict · Verso, London (1998)

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Anderson coined 'long-distance nationalism' in a 1992 lecture and developed it in this book — diaspora-rooted political identity linking a community to a homeland it does not physically inhabit, without sovereign claim or return. Canonical academic ancestor of TLTE's Hybrid Nation: an additive, deterritorialised civic identity carried by a translocal community. Cited in Dossier 09 §02 to anchor the lineage in peer-reviewed political theory rather than tech-libertarian discourse.

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