Beck adapted imagined communities into a risk-cosmopolitanism framework.
Evidence
In one of his last published essays, Ulrich Beck (2011) engages at length Benedict Anderson and applies the idea of imagined communities to his own transnational concept of “risk cosmopolitanism.” — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 516
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- XREF: Connects imagined communities theory to manufactured-uncertainty scholarship; relevant to reader’s mapping of how speculation reconstructs collective imagination.
Related
- Beck adapted Anderson’s imagined communities concept into a theory of transnational risk solidarity. (similarity 0.93)
- Existential uncertainty, not just political economy, enabled national imagined communities (similarity 0.81)
- Imagined communities emerge from capitalism, print, and linguistic diversity (similarity 0.81)
- Speculative communities replace print-nationalism with social-media and dating-app connectivity. (similarity 0.80)
- Speculative communities evolve from imagined communities by financializing their three core elements (similarity 0.80)
- Imagination is social and intersubjective, constituting collectivities (similarity 0.79)
- Speculative communities embrace uncertainty through strategic unknowing rather than anticipation or control (similarity 0.78)
- Speculative communities emerge from collective imagination, not individual gambling (similarity 0.78)