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- adjective Pertaining to a time or mindset in which the identity of a
nation is no longer important.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Canada is something that could best be described as postnational, worried less about protecting and more about encompassing.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Ibbitson 2011
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Canada is something that could best be described as postnational, worried less about protecting and more about encompassing.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Ibbitson 2011
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And the dangers are potentially explosive in East Asia, where -- in stark contrast to "postnational" Western Europe -- there are no overarching structures like the European Union or NATO to dampen tensions or provide a framework for cross-border cooperation.
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And the dangers are potentially explosive in East Asia, where -- in stark contrast to "postnational" Western Europe -- there are no overarching structures like the European Union or NATO to dampen tensions or provide a framework for cross-border cooperation.
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The Postnational Fantasy: Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction places itself at the nexus of current debates about nationalism, postnational capitalism, the reassertion of third world nationalism and its cosmopolitical counterparts, and the role of contemporary Science Fiction SF and fantasy in challenging, normalizing, or contesting these major conceptual currents of our times.
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It's one of the first truly postnational institutions that the Internet has produced along with those in the hedonistic business of file-sharing.
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The "information capsule for the future," like a postnational Trojan Horse, will lack any Cubans in its gigabyte guts.
Yoani Sanchez: YouTube Invites The World To 'Life In A Day' But Tells Cubans, 'Not You' 2010
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Victor Davis Hanson has dubbed Obama the first postnational global citizen.
The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010
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Victor Davis Hanson has dubbed Obama the first postnational global citizen.
The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010
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Important also in our study would be the nature of representation itself, but especially the affective value of the texts in generating and foregrounding the questions of feelings invoked by the SF and the postcolonial text, and the impact of this emotive state on the issues of national, postnational, and cosmopolitan identity formation.
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