POLI 279 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Civic Nationalism, European Colonialism, Primordialism
11 Sep 2018
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July 25th = the politicization of identity. Discussion on the importance of identity (ethnicity, religion, gender) and the politicization of identities in the global south. Title page; intro paragraph (condensed form of your essay); body (systematically broken down discussion and theory); conclusion (wrap it up); bibliography (any citation style just keep it consistent). Politicization: the process of making a private, social, economic or ideational issue political. Identity: any social category in which an individual is eligible to be a member. Intersectionality: cross-cutting disadvantages associated with different identity categories. Social constructivism: argues identities are constructed by groups/societies; are. Identities can change and are context/specific vs. primordialism: views identity as fixed. Nation: a population that identities itself as a common group in juxtaposition to others (vs. state) Nation-state: where the boundaries of a nation and state align. 1) civic nationalism: unity among nation that is autonomous of the state (rare) 3) ethno-national: merges ethnicity and national identities (i. e. israel, japan)
