WGS160Y1 Lecture 8: Nationalism and Collective Gender Identities
20 Nov 2016
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Lecture 8 nationalism and collective gender identities. Nation: collection of people who have come to believe they"ve been shaped by common past and are destined to share common future. They believe themselves to be similar or connected by a common identity. The state is the political and bureaucratic institutions, practices, and policies that govern a given territory and population. Symbols are meant to bring us together (ex: canadian symbols like maple leaf, beaver, hockey, maple syrup, etc) This week"s readings challenge commonness or homogeneity as the goal of nationalism. Dionne brand: if there is any homogeneous element, it is the collective angst over whether we can say there is a canadian identity [but] there is an official canadianness that functions. It functions to exclude as it functions to define. Newcomer magazine image: displays orientalism, notion that any immigrant will be successful, message of assimilation to particular european white notion about what being canadian is and.
