INTR 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nationstates

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: International Relations
• Course: INTR 301
• Professor: Mark Baron

Document Summary

Part i: nomenclature: definition, essentially contested concepts , historical specificity. Nomenclature: the act/process/practice of naming and defining ideas or material objects. It is deliberate and significant because it is driven by biases of people defining. What we name and define can be multiplicity of things. The practice of assigning terms/names to ideas as well as to material objects. Driven by our own concepts and theoretical concerns. Driven by our interests like political interests. Every concept that we have is what we refer to an essentially contested concept. Is a concept for which there is no common definition. Concept that majority of people disagree on how to define this concept. The way we apply this term in the real world is also contested. There"s no consensus on how we operationalize it. The word hegemony: it is essentially contested because scholars disagree on what it means and how to apply it to the real world.