ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Identity Politics, English Canada, Italian Unification

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Ivan Kalmar

Document Summary

Na ional iden i ies are cons r c ed , imagined , and hey change. Na ion: a (cid:343) ni (cid:344) cons r c ed o of con in i y and diversi y. Na ional iden i y is a ma er of prac icing (cid:343)imagined comm ni y. (cid:344) Depoli iciza ion: the idea ha he concep of he na ion (cid:343)hides(cid:344) poli ics. C l re has o do wi h ideas, ar , habi al behavio r. Poli ics (in o r sense) has o do wi h social rela ions: rela ions among gro ps of people wi hin and be ween socie ies. The homogeneo s (cid:343)na ion(cid:344) an (cid:343)impossible(cid:344) cons r c ion, always in he making. I opera es in culture (as an idea), b i "s f nc ion is political (i is he fo nda ion, po en ially, of a s a e).