GEOG-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Primordialism, Nationstates, Data Reporting
22 Dec 2020
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Banal nationalism. (billig) . give some familiar examples. The ways that the concept of nation is embedded in our daily lives. Examples are beer commercials, history curriculums in school, data reporting, passport. 2 main schools . primordialist and modernist approaches primodiast - based on narratives of. Modern nationalism - every nation has right to state. French revolution as the first self-conscious modern nationalism. Shift to the people being the sovereign instead of the monarchy, focus on language as a way to forge a common french identity and the new focus on french territory being the nations territory not just the states. Note p 198 . nationalist propositions related to the scales of reality (world), nation-state and individual-locality. World order and harmony depend upon expressing this mosaic in a system of free nation-states b1. Nations have a cultural homogeneity based upon common ancestry and history. Every nation requires its own sovereign state for the true expression of its own culture.
