Political Science 1020E Lecture 11: Lecture 11-Nation
2 Oct 2016
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Nation: complex concept = shared identity, usually: broad sharing of common history, culture, language, beliefs, sense-of-group, government, etc. Not exclusively (completely) and nor objectively: renan: spiritual principle", sacrifice, common experience/past, solidarity, anderson: imagined community" history, institutions, etc. , create an imagined group amongst our collective memory. Ethnic-nation: particular objective factors" = race/physiology, language, culture, patterns, social systems, etc. Civic-nation: identity depends on primarily acceptance of political order (well-order/democracy) Participatory association": group of people who are part of a nation-group and part of a delineated state o rarely in exists today most states are multinational = many different nationalities in one state. Nationalism in europe emerges with the fall of holy roman empire: end of christianity as only (sovereign) identity, emergence of french, english, spaniards, etc. Italians, etc. o replaces allegiance to church to allegiance with monarch, and then allegiance to people: construction of a national identity required, nationalism > political community > state = political autonomy.
