Myths of nation and empire
The logic of America’s liberal empire-state
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4481891 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian Go (0000-0003-4309-7183, Boston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 139 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-83 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513617700046 |
| OpenAlex | W2599840941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 29 |
While empires and civic-liberal nations have been seen as opposite and even contradictory political forms, this essay argues that they are similar. Both create and depend upon hierarchical differentiation accompanied by exclusion and subjugation. Furthermore, they are logically related. The hierarchies typically attributed to empires are inscribed into the very theoretical and institutional core of civic-liberal nationhood. Using the American 'liberal empire-state' as the example, the essay uncovers these hierarchies and discusses two logics of imperial differentiation: the subjugation of bodies and of territory. It suggests that exploring the shifting lines and principles of hierarchization offers the most fruitful analytic strategy for examining the history of nations and empires
Aesthetics · Empire · Inscribed figure · Mythology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Australian History and Society · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
Atlantic Reconstruction
Defending Liberalism in the Global South
Uncovering whiteness as discourse
Epilogue
Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States' relationship to whiteness
Unipolar Dispensations
Homogenizing nationalists, budding fascists, and truculent exceptionalists
A Research Agenda for the Study of Southeast Asian Liberalisms
Small’ and ‘greater’ nations
Grounded Nationalisms
Citizen, Subject, Human
Fanon's Mobilities
The French Revolution and the New Spatial Format for Empire
History, sociology and the study of empires
Colonialism
Slavery in the United States
Black Skin, White Masks
Blood and belonging
An American Dilemma
Semblances of Sovereignty
Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy
Culling the Masses
The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire
Impossible Subjects
Liberalism and Empire
Foreign in a Domestic Sense
Many Thousands Gone
Identity as Ideology
Deadly Symbiosis
Terms of Assimilation
Many Thousands Gone
Empires in World History
Nation-states as empires, empires as nation-states
Patterns of Empire
"Racism" and Colonialism
The Human Tradition in California
| Citations per year | 1.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |