SOCI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Failed State, Jus Soli
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State: centrally organized institution or set of institutions who central aim is to enforce order. Nation: people tied together ethnically (or civically) and having a shared culture, long history, and mutual recognition as members of the same group. National identity: collective identity of a political community. Violation of principle -- nationalist sentiment (anger) --movement, conflict, violence, war. State failure to include all members of the nation. Failure to include al nationals, yet includes non-nationals. Nationalism emerges in a context where nations are already in existence. Nationalist movements -- sense of national identity, corr political unit. Unification of national territory or homeland (if land is divided) What makes members similar to one another and different from non-members. Not endless supply of defined, homogeneous political territories. Homogeneity achieved only if kills, expels, or assimilated all non- nationals. Language & symbols - powerful aspects of nationalism. National museums, artwork, poetry, literature, etc. as representation of the nation.
