The persistence of nationalism [electronic resource] : from imagined communities to urban encounters / Angharad Closs Stephens.

Introduction: the persistence of nationalist imaginaries
Beyond "imagined communities": nationalism and the politics of knowledge
Weberian tales: disenchantment, mastery and meaning
Rousseau's legacies: the politics of time, community and loss
Urban cosmopolitanism: the return of the nation in times of terror
Nationalism and its limits: the politics of imagination
Sites of memory and the city as a melee
Conclusion: the aftermath of nationalist imaginaries.