| Summary/Abstract |
In the contemporary era the concept of nation is no longer intricately connected to a specific area of the globe inhabited by a particular community; as an idea it has become fluid, malleable, and unpredictable than ever before. Unlike the world map of states-with its clearly demarcated, contiguous, and fairly stable, homogenous units-the world map of nations is imagined as made up of units that spill over state borders, overlap each other, and are continually pushing for their own, exclusive national space.
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