ANTH20011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Arkan, Gorinchem, Class Conflict
28 Jul 2018
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Nation: a group of people who share (or share the aspiration of acquiring) a common territory and a state. Nationalism: the form of political mobilisation associated with the nation. Nationalism is modern and nationalism is constructed. Therefore, nationalism and the nation are inherently vulnerable because imagined" as ancient and natural. Ethnicity is the most effective narrative by which nations overcome the reality of their newness and present themselves as ancient! Different approaches to conceptualising the relationship between ethnicity and nationalism. 1989-2016: dissolved from one federal nation ---> 6(7) ethnically based nation states. This process involved several violent conflicts; this was shocking because: The most popular overseas destination for western european tourists. The biggest single element behind what has happened in bosnia is the collapse of the. Soviet union and of the discipline that exerted over the ancient hatreds in the old yugoslavia.
