SA 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Imagined Communities, Nationstates, Deskilling

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 345
• Professor: Parin Dossa

Document Summary

Sa345 unit 3: from africa to canada - bordered spaces, border crossings, and imagined communities. Interview study of a group of black african women living in vancouver. Examines the spaces of tension and contradiction in which immigrants and/or people of colour in canada negotiate what it means to belong as a canadian. These bordered spaces emphasize their difference from canadians. Attempts to construct a white british and french canada where british structures, values, and. Operate thru discourses of citizenship that tend to homogenize and erase differences in the nation. Internally and externally separate citizens from others . Arbitrary dividing lines that are social, cultural and psychic. Territories to be patrolled against those who they perceive as outsiders, aliens, or others. Zones where fear of the other is fear of the self. Places of ownership (mine, yours, theirs) are fought over. Nation-building projects define political, geographical, social, and psychic borders that rely on imagined communities of belonging.