CMST 3HC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: British America, Canadian Identity, Socalled
4 Apr 2018
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Assignment #3: insight into the topic. British america refined america prime state of america. More symbolic than multilateral in closing ceremony more fun while opening was more about indigenous etc. Ted magder (1993): should the policy apparatuses of the state be enlisted to defend the so-called national culture and reduce dependency on the inflow of foreign mostly. 2 lenses: charland: technological nationalism, multiculturalism: 1960s-90s. Nation as imagined community (abstract concept shared comm is how people feel like nation: horizontal-secular-transverse-time comm bounds people together, role of communication makes it feel like ur connected to people u don"t know. Focus on settler colonial nations: national state emerge in first place colonial countries, innis. Monday, march 19, 2018: large geography physical challenges of bringing pppl together through tech and space, role of technology telegraph, newspapers, broadcasting etc. Canadian national identity not ethnic belonging (nationalism in europe) but more by state binding technologies: defined not by culture/people.
