ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jingoism, Michel Foucault, Ethnic Stereotype
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What are the definitions of: national identity. Weedon text: a sense of one"s belonging to a group/culture. Definition: a person"s identity or sense of belonging to one state or to one nation: nationalism. Definition: an ideology and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people) especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation"s sovereignty (self- governance) over its homeland: race. Race: constructed as more closely linked to nature, to biology, to being born as belonging to a certain category. Ethnicity: constructed as more closely linked to nurture, to culture and geographical roots: nation. Definition: a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. Reading imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalisms by b. A fundamental transformation in the history of marxism and marxist movements is upon us.
