ANTB20H3 Lecture : lec4.docx
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Lecture 4: trans-nationalism and imagined communities (essay due on feb 13th) An identity as citizens based on assumptions of a common culture, history. Citizens contributing to state-building and forming sentimental attachments to a homeland: e. g. attachment to canada and another country, nations are also linked to legal political boundaries, e. g. nation-state quebec = they would link themselves outside of. More closely tied to france. specific geographical territories. Anderson: nationalism large cultural systems that preceded it, out of which it came into being: nations are cultural construct, it s not a natural way of identifying, it s a social construct = idea of a nation. Print capitalism: newspapers, novels technology, printing press, internet. Distinctive apparatus of administration and territorial government: violence. Personal and emotional attachment idea of nationalism is important for them & history is contested: e. g. macedonia building of statue vs poor cities.
