CDNS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unemployment Benefits, Good Governance, Human Security
26 Feb 2017
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Group identities: nationality, gender, ethnicity, religion, class etc. identity is a relational process, there is always the other that you compare yourself with. Post-modernist theory: identity is not static, it(cid:495)s not fixed, it evolves and is not given. Power relations between groups and individuals who belong to certain groups. Canada as a nation state, and how is positions itself to us, and the international community. It gets shaped through the relation with another collective identity (usually the us) Helps people situate in the world- part of the nation (-state) Sense of power you get from that, you are part of something bigger- the country. How is it imagined= sense of commonness: values, symbols, discourses. Part of a larger cultural system (parsons and shills) Limit the type of interaction occurring among actors. Powerful enough to produce moral and political passivity. Cultural illiteracy(cid:499)- people do not know about national culture.
