POG 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Y-Dna Haplogroups By Ethnic Group, Terra Nullius, Metanarrative

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 320
• Professor: Sadif Arat- Koc

Document Summary

09/17/20: public memory and imagining the "nation" in canada, exaltation of the "national subject", colonialism vs. citizenship, master national narratives in canada and the memory of colonialism: the doctrine of. Implications of exaltation for different groups of citizens. "discovery" and notions of terra nullius and humanitas nullius. Sovereignty, colonialism and the ambiguous relationship of aboriginal peoples to. Canadian citizenship: zoe vs. bios; "coercive exclusion" and "coercive inclusion" . Nationalist grand narrative = certain stories about the nation"s history, who build the nation, and so on. Significance of public memory: public memory, not just about the past. Memory includes the feelings about the past: public memory bringing the past into the present consciousness; it allows the memory of the past to be mobilized for decisions about the present and the future. Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past (george orwell).