Represented Communities
Fiji and World Decolonization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2847641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roderick Ewins (0000-0003-2397-2198, University of Tasmania, corresponding author), John D Kelly (0000-0002-7616-0321), Martha Kaplan |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 654 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4127394 |
| OpenAlex | W2037524273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 86 |
In 1983 Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities revolutionized the anthropology of nationalism. Anderson argued that print capitalism fostered nations as in a modular form that became the culture of modernity. Now, in Represented Communities, John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan offer an extensive and devastating critique of Anderson's depictions of colonial history, his comparative method, and his political anthropology. The authors build a forceful argument around events in Fiji from World War II to the 2000 coups, showing how focus on imagined communities underestimates colonial history and obscures the struggle over legal rights and political representation in postcolonial nation-states. They show that the self-determining nation-state actually emerged with the postwar construction of the United Nations, fundamentally changing the politics of representation. Sophisticated and impassioned, this book will further anthropology's contribution to the understanding of contemporary nationalisms
Decolonization · Geography · Political science · Politics · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law
Publics and Politics
The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones
Middle-Class Déjà Vu
At the Rendezvous of Decolonization
Situating' active citizenship
What Was Postcolonialism
The Social Life of Conflict Narratives
Creating Consumer-Citizens
India Beyond India
Empire and Order in International Relations and Security Studies
Mana in Christian Fiji
Nation and Conservation
Activism and Identities in an East Kalimantan Dayak Organization
Nation‐building in post‐colonial nation‐states
Imagining Modernity in Rural Fiji
Policing the Imperial Nation
Voices and Votes in the Fields of Settler Society
Customs Regimes and the Materiality of Global Mobility
History, Anthropology, and Rethinking Modern Disciplines
Land of Symbols
Sacred Soil in Kadavu, Fiji
The Governance of the Prior
Epilogue
Fellowship and Citizenship as Models of National Community
Traditional Fijian Apology as a Political Strategy
Retheorizing Mana
Introduction to Relations in Multicultural Fiji
Gender in a Land‐Based Theology
Re‐mythologizing the State
Reconfigurations of Place and Ethnicity
Land, Life and Labour
Feared Rumours and Rumours of Fear
Penser la citoyenneté à l'aune des histoires coloniales
Introduction to Special Issue 'Rethinking Decolonisation in Papua New Guinea
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Imperial dialectics and epistemic mapping
South Asia Down Under
Urban Diaspora and the Question of Community
Staging Sassoun
Cleanliness in a Caste-less Context
Queering the Pitch from Beyond a Boundary
Neglect by Concern
Building bridges
Belonging in the Pacific, culture and history thirty years on
Ethnicity and nationality among Ethiopians in Canada’s census data
Britain, India, and the United Nations
The Cannibalized Career of Liberalism in Colonial India
Rituals of Solidarity in the New South Africa
Prologue
Baseball and decolonization
Do Stronger Collective Property Rights Improve Household Welfare? Evidence from a Field Study in Fiji
Sir Philip Mitchell and the Indian Ocean, 1944–49
The Campaign for Islamic Law in Fiji
Taste, Taxes, and Technologies
Rethinking community
A nation 'living in different places
Performing power, composing culture
Spatial Inequity and National Territory
Reflexivity, Tradition, and Power
Nation, Nationalism, and Sport
Nation and decolonization
Political orientation and the resonance of ethnic mobilization
Land and Life in Timor-Leste
Bodily Translations
Who "Who" is, and Other Local Poetics of National Policy
Appeals to indigeneity
Seeing Like a "Failed" NGO
The organization of ideological diversity in discourse
Constituted through Conflict
"Wasting time" the Veratan way
The political dimensions of coexistence
Actor-network theory and anthropology after science, technology, and society
The Anthropology of Credit and Debt
From Sugar Cane to 'Swords
Perpetual Lament
Friction in the field
The maverick dialogics of religious rivalry in Sri Lanka
Corporal destinies
Paraguayan Horses
Chronological Pollution
Global Customs Regimes and the Traffic in Sovereignty
The Meanings of Interjections in Q'eqchi' Maya
Time and the other time
Empire through Diasporic Eyes
Border crimes, extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the racialization of sovereignty in the Ethiopia-British Somaliland borderlands during the 1920s
Politics and Business in the Indian Newspapers of Colonial Tanganyika
| Unique citing works | 86 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,44 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 79 |