01:050:101 Lecture 7: Lecture 7_ Nation
17 Jan 2019
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What does nation mean? (keywords in american cultural studies) How have ideas of the nation been limited in the united states: nations are fictions given solidity through political and judrical processes that transform them into material practices, including population control , immigration restriction and curtailment, and full-scale genocide. Thus, on the one side (commonly denoted as uncritically nationalist, often jingoistic), we find the nation discussed as a natural formation. On the other side (which hold itself above nationalism or opposes it) we find. Imagined communities (1983) is his most famous work. Argued that nations arose out of the age of revolution (american and french revolution) Role of technology in nation building: printing press. Almost every year the un admits new members. And many old nations," once throughout fully consolidated, find themselves challenged by sub"-nationalisms within their borders-nationalisms which, naturally, dream of shedding this sub-ness one happy day. The reality is quite plain: the end of the era of nationalism".
