SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ethnogenesis, Mediascape, Deterritorialization
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Colonialism and trade unleash massive migrations around the world. Gendered aspects of population ovement which we have discussed before men are favoured in employment, and this aters local relations back home. Transnationalism: how the borders and distances affects nationalism, long distance nationalism . The maintenance of a connection to land of origin(e. g sending money home: deterritorialization: Adoption of an identity related to beliefs or patterns identified with place of origin, but out of context and often stricter: mediascape: Similar to landscape, but image of place generated by mass media of all kinds rather than actually viewing real place tends to create romanticized notions of a place: distortion of reality: Created through partial, selective, incomplete representation of a place. We didn"t create capitalism without depriving third world countries. People didn"t always think so openly about their identities: didn"t need to, because their social circle" was small, not generally relevant to their daily lives.
