Imagined Worlds

"...for polities of smaller scale, there is always a fear of cultural absorption by polities of larger scale, especially those that are near by. One man's imagined community (Anderson, 1983) is another man's political prison."

from Arjun Appadurai, "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy."

http://www.intcul.tohoku.ac.jp/~holden/MediatedSociety/Readings/2003_04/Appadurai.html