POLI 1119 Lecture : Globalization.docx
Document Summary
Argued that world wide web may weaken national identities, but in actuality may reinforce. Advertisers know where isp is located, and target your locality. Globalization may have reduced the power of national identities of modern era but national identities are extremely powerful people willing to sacrifice own lives in name of nation. When society faces a challenge it looks to the state for protection. Economic crisis of 2008 challenged the weakening state thesis: demonstrated that when times are good, we don"t think about state/national identity, but when shit goes wrong, we look to the state. Histories and myths neither static nor timeless: ex. Louis riel quebec: he was a hero/western: he was a traitor interpreted differently. National identities change overtime; stories, myths as well: we used to talk about 2 founding peoples of canada, now it"s 3. Forgetting history, or even getting history wrong, is an essential factor in the formation of a nation renan 1882.
