Postcolonial national consciousness becomes an empty shell rather than collective hope

Evidence

National consciousness, instead of being the all-embracing crystallization of the innermost hopes of the whole people… will be in any case only an empty shell, a crude and fragile travesty of what it might have been. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3405 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: National consciousness can become an empty travesty of people’s hopes. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3405; National identities are imagined modern constructs rather than primordial bonds; Post-colonial nations blend popular and official nationalism as ongoing projects — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 446

Broader Connections

• National consciousness can become an empty travesty of people’s hopes. #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3405
• Post-colonial nations blend popular and official nationalism as ongoing projects #complicates (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 446
• National identities are imagined modern constructs rather than primordial bonds #complicates (0.74)