ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Remittance, Tim Hortons, Media Play
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It is imagiend as a community, because regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal, comradeship (equal playing field). Ultimately it s this fraternity that makes possible over the past two centuries, for many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginations" Print material (newspaper) reaches people horizontal on a wide range. Nationalism=symbolic and ideological order, shapes social integration and feelings. Ex: canadians being polite, universal healthcare (this is not living things its imagined) How does media play into this? connection in diaspora, connects by conversation, connects by ideologies and symbolic. Appadurai- it doesn"t tell about the actual lives and experiences of people. Basch- more about the peoples lives, the one issue though is that the focus is on migration but transnationalism doesn"t need physical movement of people.
