POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Free Trade, Ethnic Nationalism, Civic Nationalism
25 Jul 2018
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Modernist arguments: (1) nations and nationalism are modern father than ancient. More speci cally, nations and nationalism are said to originate from the french revolution. Indeed, there was something peculiar to the historical event in that it vested sovereignty upon the people instead of the monarch. (3) modernist perspective is that culture is not that important in the constitution of nations. Modernist oppose the idea that there is any kind of naturalness to nations that would have its roots in the sharing of a common culture. They argue that nations and nationalism are socially and politically constructed rather than culturally determined. Primordialists (1) belonging to a cultural community is a fundamental need of the human condition, and that, as a consequence, nations are a permanent feature of human history. Essentially it means that nations cannot be purely modern phenomena. (2) disagrees with the modernist approach that nations and nationalism are a european invention.
