JOUB01H3 Lecture 3: Nationalism and Ethnicity
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Nation: it is an imagined political community and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. Nationalism: is no the awakening of nations to self-consciousness it invents nations where they do not exist. Limited: has finite, if elastic, boundaries beyond which lie other nations. Sovereign: the gage and emblem of this freedom is the sovereign state. Community: the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Capitalism and print created monoglot mass reading publics. The diversity of spoken languages was immense each potential oral vernacular market. Certai(cid:374) diale(cid:272)ts i(cid:374)e(cid:448)ita(cid:271)ly (cid:449)ere (cid:858)(cid:272)loser(cid:859) to ea(cid:272)h pri(cid:374)t-language and dominated their final forms. Sub-national struggles, oppression/obstruction of identities, insertion of new divisions. Example: turkic speaking peoples in turkey, iran, iraq, and ussr. Molla nasreddin attacked the hypocrisy of the muslim clergy, the colonial policies of. European nations and the corruption of local elites, while at the same time arguing for. Westernisation, educational reform and equal rights for women.
