A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Nationstates, Essentialism, George Orwell
9 Sep 2020
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A large aggregate of communities and individuals united by factors such as common descent, language, culture, history, or occupation of the same territory, so as to form a distinct people". For about 95% of human history, society has not been organised into states, it is a modern phenomenon: westphalia - the sovereign state, westphalian settlement of 1648 which came out of the religious wars of western. Nations do not make states and nationalisms but the other way round". In pre-industrial days, people lived in agricultural society where culture was localised. Capitalism dismantles those social structures and connects these local societies, and an expansion of territorial space. This requires a wider sense of social cohesion - the nation. It is more of a thin ideology that connects to other ideological constructs - nazism, Freeden, m. (1998), is nationalism a distinct ideology?" political studies 46(4)
