POLI 227 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 4: Civic Nationalism, Ethnic Nationalism, European Colonialism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 227
• Professor: Daniel Douek

Document Summary

Poli 227 - week 4 - p 103 - 131. Chapter assumes that nationalism and civil society: are different and only sometimes closely related, both are socially constructed identities (subject to change, ethnicity is politicized in only some cases, but nationalism has an inherent political component. Religious identities can be attributes of ethnic identities but sometimes useful to separate them. Not all eth(cid:374)i(cid:272) ide(cid:374)tities a(cid:396)e politi(cid:272)ized (cid:894)(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:895) (cid:858)a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ated i(cid:374) politi(cid:272)s(cid:859) (cid:894)bi(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:396) et al. (cid:895) European colonialism in the dvlping world played a crucial role in the dvlpmnt of these social identities: huge variety in the policies that affected ethnical identities, creation intermarriage, intermediate groups - many of whom adopted creole identities. Limited cultural differences amongst groups in most countries: territorial concentration of many ethnic groups that facilitates their construction as cohesive units for collective political action, communal contention discourages political entrepreneurs from exaggerating political differences among groups.