POLSCI 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ethnohistory, North American Free Trade Agreement, Intelligentsia
10 Sep 2014
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Content: national identity and culture, globalization and multiple identities, debates over cosmopolitanism, hybridization and a global culture. National identity **reflect social cohesion; collective bonds with others; familiarity based on definition of yourself. Nation states based on national identity; shared culture and same sense of belonging . shared emotion and devotion. Identities as constructions of being, belonging and becoming: defining the self and forging collective bonds with others, territorialism and nationalism: the basis of political structure. National solidarity: shared devotion to and struggle for a territorial homeland. Sizeable population; to be a nation need large pop sharing same ideology and devotion. To be a nation you need to define the other and make historical means with respect to the others; like wars with other countries, different religions, a nation"s hero might be the enemy of another nation. A common history and a constructed myth.
