The Spectre of Comparisons
Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5773376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Chirot |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1651-1651 |
| Publication date | 1999-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The spectre of comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the world, Benedict Anderson, 1998 |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2649380 |
| OpenAlex | W2008911983 |
| Language | EN |
This collection of essays spans a range of subjects, including: Aquino's Philippines, where the horses on the haciendas ate better than the stable hands; and political assassinations in contemporary Thailand, where government posts have become so lucrative that to gain them candidates will kill their rivals. Politics, national imaginings, bureaucracy, modernization and its agents (particularly print culture) is covered. spectre of comparisons was a phrase used by the celebrated Filipino nationalist and novelist Jose Rizal (1861-96), whose work and fate in the national imagination are discussed in the book. In his observations on South-East Asian societies, Anderson raises deep questions concerning this spectre, about how, for example, Manila is changed when it can no longer be seen through a comparison with European capitals, and how, more broadly, nationalism is produced by the process of increasing global connection. The book should be a resource for those interested in South-East Asia. But it also contains theoretical and historical considerations about nationalism, national literature and memory, modernization and the prospects for the Left in what Anderson dubs New World Disorder. Benedict Anderson is the author of Java In a Time of Revolution, Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia and Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Bureaucracy · Economic history · Government (linguistics · Modernization theory · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture
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Ink of Nostalgia
Sport Nationalism in South Korea
Narratives in Action
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Mimicry and Projection in the Colonial Encounter
They Think We are Just Caregivers
Transnationalism and Relationships with 'Home' among Women in the East Timorese Community in Melbourne
With Dev in America Sinn Féin and Recognition Politics, 1919-21
It was networking, all networking
In the Name of Diaspora
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The perils of empire
From citizenship to social liberalism or beyond? Some theoretical and historical landmarks
Heritage Conservation through Private Donation
Living through terror
Malaysian diaspora philanthropy
Diasporas and democratization in the post-communist world
A comparative analysis of diaspora policies
Intervention
(Re)positioning Malaysia
The king yields to the village? A micropolitics of statemaking in Northwest Vietnam
From fever to flu
Cultural Hegemony of Singapore among Asean Countries
Post-Soviet Nation State as a Sponsor of Construction of the Ethno-National Diaspora
Botanical surveying, nation-building and American empire
National Multiculturalism, Transnational Identities
Democratic theory and democratization in contemporary Brazil and beyond1
Cyber-hindutva
Diaspora construct in the focus of entity policies and different mobilities
Geography, Globalization, and the Problematic of Area Studies
The Degeneration of Tropical Geography
The geopolitics of diaspora
Inter-area Ethnography
A Post-Fordist Ethnicity
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature
The New Transnational Activism
The Balance of Power in World History
Print Culture and Imagining the Union of South Africa
Land and Life in Timor-Leste
Before History and Prior to Politics
Indieglobalization and the Triumph of Punk in Indonesia
Urbanizing the Countryside
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Nations and Nation-States in History
Separatist Conflict in Indonesia
Select General Bibliography
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The Eaton Sisters and the Figure of the Eurasian
Confronting Peace
José Martí, José Rizal, and Their Speculative Extended Caribbean
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State Weakness and Civil Society in the Philippines
Lav Diaz and the Durational Sublime
Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia
Reading Humanitarian Intervention
The Nation in Heterogeneous Time
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Informal security regimes
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The dynamics of Africa's in/security regimes
Conceptualising in/security regimes
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Borders and Borderland Literature
Nonviolence as Contentious Interaction
The Racial Paradigm and Dalit Anti-Caste Activism in the United States
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Diaspora
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Are We Them? Textual and Literary Representations of the Chinese in Twentieth-Century Thailand
Introduction
Globalising Vietnam’s national identities in the early twentieth century
Passive revolution
Rethinking Citizenship
On Twenty-First-Century Postcolonialism
Decolonization? What Decolonization
“Demonic Societies”
Long-Distance Nationalism
Imagining the State as a Space
The Captive State
Affect
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The Battlefield and the Prize
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Public Secrets, Conscious Amnesia, and the Celebration of Autonomy for Ladakh
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Religion and Nationalism in Southeast Asia
Stories of women
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |