Educational and administrative pilgrimages forged national identity
Evidence
The interlock between particular educational and administrative pilgrimages provided the territorial base for new imagined communities in which natives could come to see themselves as nationals (Calhoun 1991, 140). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 403
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Calhoun’s pilgrimage mechanism parallels how speculative platforms route users through shared experiences that forge community identity — the analog for modern speculative communities.