Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Protestant Reformation, Canada Day, Jus Soli
17 Apr 2018
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Political science lecture 7- nationalism and subnational identities. Internal legitimacy of state: do people regard government as legitimate and something people can work with and live with, role of civil society, are there robust social and civil society institutions that people are regularly engaged with. Infrastructure: does economy work, are people able to get around and live in relative comfort, allies. Nationalism: a political, cultural and moral concept where emphasis is placed on a shared language, culture, religion, history or ethnicity. It may have political or cultural aspirations: quebecois for a long time had political and cultural aspirations, nation definition #2: imagined political communities, you don"t have to be living with anyone who belongs to that nation. Primordialists: idea that the features of a nation (language, religion, ethnicity) have existed forever, nations tend to be really old things, nations didn"t even realize they are nations for a very long time. We produce them ourselves through political and cultural action.
