Nationalists fought for territories they had only seen on schoolroom maps
Evidence
Sukarno never saw the West Irian for which he fought so hard till he was over 60. Here, as in the schoolroom maps, we see fiction seeping into reality – cf. Noli and El Periquillo Sarniento. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 501
Categorization
- CANDY: ‘Sukarno never saw the West Irian he fought for till he was over 60’ is a perfect elevator fact about imagined communities.
- XREF: The schoolroom-map mechanism is the textbook illustration of Anderson’s whole ‘imagined community’ thesis and directly scaffolds how the Islamophobia field understands nation as constructed rather than natural. — connects to: Colonial historiography reproduced administrative maps that erased mixed-ethnic encampments; The map can create a national community where none previously existed — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 668
Related
- The map can create a national community where none previously existed (similarity 0.84)
- National communities bore no determined relation to existing political borders (similarity 0.81)
- Logo-maps and martyr legend made an unseen territory sacred in the national imagination. (similarity 0.79)
- Colonial states invented historical maps fabricating ancient territorial identities. (similarity 0.78)
- Colonial map coloring evolved into a detachable logo-map that fueled national identity. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- The map can create a national community where none previously existed
#expands(0.92) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 668 - Colonial historiography reproduced administrative maps that erased mixed-ethnic encampments
#complicates(0.80)