WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dionne Brand, Graded Ring, Canadian Identity
9 Dec 2015
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Guided reading questions: what is* the relationship between women, the state and nation building, what is the connection between nationalism, masculinity and state security, nation, nationalism and national identity, women, the state and nation-building, masculinist protection. A collection of people who have come to believe they have been shaped by a common past and are destined to share a common future (p. 222) Believe themselves to be similar or connected by a common identity (p. The political and bureaucratic institutions, practices and policies that govern a given territory and population (p. 151) Challenging homogeneity, commonness of being canadian (nationalism) - all about being one thing. Because different people who come to the country or were born in the country all have different stories. If there is any homogeneous element, it is the collective angst over whether we can say there is a canadian identity[but] there is an official.
