Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110051 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Serie Documentos de Trabajo No. 525
Publisher: 
Universidad del Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina (UCEMA), Buenos Aires
Abstract: 
The literature has long argued that the nation is a community, either "imagined", "invented", or of "sentiment". The existence of such a "national community" has strongly relied upon the assumption that members share - or feel/believe that they share - something/s in common. It stands to reason that members of the national community, therefore, should have some degree of consciousness as to what unites them as a nation. Theoretically, they ought to somewhat concur in identifying the features that characterize their nations and differentiates them from others. Very seldom, however, has literature asked members of the nation what the nation means to them. In this paper I do and thereby I question well-known arguments in current literature on the nation., I seek to establish to what degree, if at all, the nation exists as a construct in the popular imaginary. I attempt to identify the concepts and images that members of the nation associate with their national identity.
ISBN: 
978-987-1062-91-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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