GS101 Lecture Notes - Imagined Communities, Julian Assange, Cosmopolitanism
Document Summary
Sovereignty- very connected to a feeling of belonging to a particular and almost sacred place (control over space) Territoriality- you cannot have a nation space without control and space. (human emotional necessity) Self-identification- people within that nation state call themselves as part of that state. Belonging- who belongs within the nation state. Treaty of westphalia (1648): a peace treaty that was signed by some very diverse groups in europe. People who are like minded could come together within their own territory. (the modern nation state). The demise of the nation state: many professionals suggesting that this era is over (the end of the nation state). Before the nation state there was a sense of empires, where people of different cultures and religions came together to form a bigger group. The nation state has been used to enhance the economic and cultural life of a nation.
