POL312Y1 Lecture Notes - Imagined Community, Civic Nationalism, David Frum
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Identity: our relationship to others (and ourselves: imagined communities (anderson, in the late 20th century (post 60"s) there is an explosion of identity politics. It took on a new dynamic in the aftermath in women"s movement, african american movement, gay rights movement, environmental movement, and other civil movements: imagined bonds that people share. Identity groups are collective but they also only have meaning because other people don"t share them. Globalized citizenship? : citizenship has 2 things 1st, legal relationship because if you are a citizen of a state, then state owes you something. There can be a reciprocal relationship where you owe the state something like taxes or military service. 2nd, a sense of obligation and attached to the nation of your citizenship, and is in line with being a good citizen : we have this ideas and identity which is malleable to us.
