...Setting out the broader conceptual framework and debates, this chapter considers the central influence of citizenship as a concept in the development of the welfare state. Exploring the development of citizen rights and the emergence of the imagined communities of nation-states provides a historic...

... took Afrolatinamericans as well as indigenous people) have found to challenge neoliberal intercultural policies is to re-imagine their culture identity through memory and literature. Constructing a discourse of self-recognition as a different “imagined community” from the hegemonic...

... for the most disadvantaged pupils. Thus, the lack of available school places within the local community threatens the very existence of itself as community. She draws upon the concept of ‘imagined communities’ to demonstrates how the term community is employed in local political and popular discourses...