ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Xenophobia, Imagined Community
14 Jul 2014
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Defining nations: citizens, immigrants, diasporas: power, power as coercion, power through meaning. Power: the capacity to shape or transform a given situation, determine outcomes and to act upon the actions of others. Imagining the nation: cultural citizenship and belonging a) Imagined communities of the nation: diasporas and immigrants: linkages and boundaries i) Nationalism: social-cultural practice concerned with forging an identity of boundedness, continuity and homogeneity encompassing diversity in relationship to a political state. Cultural citizenship: hegemonic form of social meaning and power that provide notions of who belongs to the nation and who does not. Xenophobia: an intense dislike of those deemed to be foreigners to the polity.
