DTS201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Conspiracy Theory, Jeffrey Rowland
15 Nov 2017
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Project is about truth and national and nationalist survival. Increase in the ways a person can belong in non ethnic or national ways: take the new created practices and re-establish what was before by reclaiming it. Chance of political manipulation is high - harder to unify. Two plots: restoration of origin, conspiracy theory. Remove the details - sense of community based on exclusion and hatred -selective - strong political element. History is reinvented - a particular definition of the nation is created. Cleaned up: museums becomes a space where a cultural past is kept. Trying to find the true version of the homeland and then develop this true feeling of nationalism: what is the real thing. Being true to ones self and what one believes in: what counts as true. Longing for what: was it even there in the first place or. Changing with technology: memory"s change as things go on.
