Collective
The Nation (as collective)
Explore in the Atlas →The nation considered as a collective actor — a people who imagine themselves as a deep, horizontal comradeship — as distinct from the nation-state institution that gives it territorial and legal form. Following Anderson, the nation-as-collective is sustained by shared media, narratives and memory, and is the imagined community on whose behalf national architecture and monuments are built.
Collectivity Memory Country
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Lived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Protocol performed
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Benedict Anderson associated with
Sources
- n.d..
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Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "The Nation (as collective)." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/collective/the-nation-as-collective/. Accessed July 17, 2026.