PPAS 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Canadian National Vimy Memorial, Civic Nationalism, Quebec Nationalism

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 2110
• Professor: Peter Constantinou

Document Summary

Imagined political community and imagined as both limited and sovereign * ^ meaning, group of people with similar aspects and thoughts active aspect. ^ it is imagined -- most of them will not know, basically strangers, and yet you feel some sort of connection, sense of community (part of a community that go beyond the family) ^ to be limited matter to canadians because they define what it is to be canadian, set the differences between canadians and others. ^ community regardless of the inequality, nation is still conceived in comradeship * therefore makes us brothers and sisters. Nationalism political principle which holds that political and national unity should be congruent. Nations needs states; states don"t necessarily need nations. Nations are created by nationalism not the other way around. Is about negotiating between the relationship between canada and its nation. Some say that canada has two nations (a nation within a nation example, quebec)