ENVS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Heteronormativity, Class Discrimination
27 Nov 2013
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Envs 1200 what about our own stories. Fundamentalist piece: fundamentalism can prevent us from thinking progressively. Constructing the nation: we can think of nationalism as being socially constructed we can become stuck in thinking like the nation. ". It is a constructed thing that came about in the 16th century (when. What emerges in this time is national armies, absolute monarchs used these for both expansion and population control (so they could be taxed) National bureaucracies also emerge at this time (record keeping/taxation) Treaty of westphalia (1637) establish the principle of national sovereignty (idea that a country can rule its self without foreign interferences) Following this, we see the arrival of national states and world orders (expansionists). Through this integration we see all kinds of exchanges that have important consequences for the future of many of these colonies. (triangular trade/columbian exchange). Today we see massive percentages of ppl living in poverty around the world.
