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Analysis: Reimagining the Nation

Reimagining the Nation

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What happens to a nation when its media fragments?

Peter Pomerantsev looks at how a nation is forged by its media and what happens when it comes apart.

What keeps a nation together? For political scientist Benedict Anderson, it was the idea of the 'imagined community'. Although people from different backgrounds in a country might not know one another, they could imagine themselves as part of the same larger story. 

Peter Pomerantsev looks at how we can survive as a society when the idea of the 'imagined community' is under strain. Is it too late to find any commonality? Or are there other ways of imagining the future of the nation?

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Editor Jasper Corbett

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