Post-colonial nations blend popular and official nationalism as ongoing projects

Evidence

One can thus think of many of these nations as projects the achievement of which is still in progress, yet projects conceived more in the spirit of Mazzini than that of Uvarov. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 446

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Official nationalism is a reactive response to earlier popular national movements — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 348; Official nationalism serves threatened ruling classes, not great powers alone — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 380; Postcolonial liberation means building a new society, not reviving or prolonging old ones. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 113 (+1 more)

Related

• Official nationalism is a reactive response to earlier popular national movements (similarity 0.87)
• Postcolonial liberation means building a new society, not reviving or prolonging old ones. (similarity 0.81)
• Official nationalism is a copyable state-serving policy with a Janus-headed legacy (similarity 0.79)
• Nationalism originated in the New World colonies, not in Europe’s ethnolinguistic movements (similarity 0.79)
• Once a national-state model exists, even reactionary nationalisms must adopt populist standards (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial subjects imagined nations before most of Europe did (similarity 0.78)
• Postcolonial national bourgeoisies consolidated while nationalism evaporated or caused havoc (similarity 0.78)
• Nationalism could be consciously modeled and pirated once visible predecessors existed. (similarity 0.78)