 | Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti, Ella Shohat - Social Science - 1997 - 562 pages
...to an abrupt halt. They came to call this invisible demarcation the "medicine line. " Sharon O'Brien All nationalisms are gendered; all are invented; and...relations to political power and to the technologies of violence.1 As such, nations are not simply phantasmagoria of the mind; as systems of cultural representation... | |
 | M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty - Philosophy - 1997 - 468 pages
...of nations when she writes: All nationalisms are gendered, all are invented, and all are dangerous They represent relations to political power and to the technologies of violence . . . legitimizing, or limiting, people's access to the rights and resources of the nation-state (McClintock... | |
 | Neil Lazarus - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 316 pages
...nationalisms. To these scholars, as McClintock suggests, nationalisms typically loom as "dangerous," not "in the sense that they represent relations to political power and to the technologies of violence" but in "Hobsbawm's sense of having to be opposed."24 Significantly, however, most of these contemporary... | |
 | Sangeeta Ray - History - 2000 - 216 pages
...which an Indian national identity has become intelligible. Despite McClintock's subversive formulation that "all nationalisms are gendered, all are invented...that they represent relations to political power and the technologies of violence" (352), Ernest Kenan's 1882 lecture "What Is a Nation?" continues to provide... | |
 | Jarrod Hayes - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 322 pages
...explored in L'enfant de sable and La nuit sacrée as being central to nationalism and nation-building: All nationalisms are gendered; all are invented; and all are dangerous — dangerous ... in the sense that they represent relations to political power and to the technologies of violence.... | |
 | Charles V. Carnegie - Social Science - 2002 - 264 pages
...this sobering assertion: "All nationalisms are gendered; all are invented; and all are dangerous ... in the sense that they represent relations to political power and to the technologies of violence." Nations, she reminds us, "are historical practices through which social difference is both invented... | |
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All nationalisms are gendered; all are invented; and all are dangerous — dangerous, not in Eric Hobsbawm's sense of having to be opposed but in the sense that they represent relations to political power and to the technologies of... 