POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hybridity, Bounded Set, Sensemaking

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2103
• Professor: De Larrinaga Miguel

Document Summary

Identity: always a case of reiteration through discourses and practices, we shape the world we make, thinking about these practices, how we create boundaries etc, traditional approaches: fully formed individuals, fully formed states, postmodernism, state identity is a constant state of reiteration through discourse and practices, articulation of threats and dangers (security discourse, serve to continually shape the identity of the state, of creating a self in relation to another and us and them, condition of possibility of the state is its security discourse. Place and displacement: the concern with the development or recovery of an effective identifying relationship between self and place, whether a place has been established by settlement or just pre displacement, identity and authenticity, post colonial literature, forms of literature that have developed in post colonial places to attempt to make their own culture by using what was there and appropriating it and empowering themselves.