SOCB53H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, Yellow Peril, Paul Gilroy
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National identity is constituted through discourses, institutions, and practices: nation is a social construct, people do not just naturally belong to an area. Constitute an ideal citizen who is embodied (race, class, gender: the idea of who is the citizen that belongs in the state. A story we tell ourselves about ourselves. Benedict anderson: the nation is imagined through. Became a major way of linking diverse geographical areas together. Literature: basically he was arguing that a national identity isn"t just about geography, it involves other non-political actors. The concept of the nation relies on the imagining of a fictive ethnicity because no modern nation possesses a given. Ethnic basis, even when it arises out of a national independence struggle tienne balibar: nation constituted through. Only do to the fact that other groups had to be stomped out for the national language to become the most common.
