Benedict Anderson (1 jan 1936 ano – 1 jan 2015 ano)

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About
- American, PhD at Cambridge (political science) and taught at Cornell
- interdisciplinary: drawing from anthropology, history, literature, and political science
- focus on the origins of nationalism, specifically in Thailand and Indonesia
- fluent in Javanese, Tagalog, Indonesian, Thai, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, and Russian

Major Works:
- "Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism" (1983)
- "The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World" (1998)
- "Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia" (1990)

Contributions:
- imagined communities and the concept of nationalism
- analysis of language and political power

Critiques:
- Anderson's focus on nationalism overlooks subnational identities and supra-national identities
- lacking a gender perspective

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