POLS 110 Lecture 5: fall 2017 pols 110A Week 5

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: kimnossal

Document Summary

Politics is about: the community, ideas about the community, its affairs, its culture, rules. Interests and their intersection: power, influence and authority, governance. The nation as construct: benedict anderson and (cid:498)imagined communities(cid:499, the (cid:498)nation: as, an imagined community, an ideological construct. The nation: the nation as, the commonest form of contemporary political community, the most ideologically grounded political community. What is a nation: garnet et al. (99, as doctrine, as cultural ideal, as moral ideal, this might be nationalism, but . An intersubjective definition: neither wholly subjective, nor wholly objective, a nation is any group of people who define themselves as a nation, and who are committed to the ideology of nationalism. Nationalist ideology: the (cid:498)credo(cid:499: way of conceptualizing what must be believed if one is a christian, subjective elements, objective elements. Indifference or hostility towards others: shared vision of the nation"s past, shared hope for the nation"s future, paramount loyalty to the nation, despite for self-determination.