Nationalism and Multiculturalism Flashcards
The nation
Benedict Anderson 1991
Nations neither new or natural - state preceded nation e.g. France
Why need to persuade people they belong to common unit?
‘We’re all in this together’ (DC on credit crunch)
Kymlicka
Legitimate
Idea of state and justify authority to it
Chun
Nation practices have to be repeated - nationalism relies on these repeated practices
Links to Butlers (1990) notion of performativity
E.g. when Kosovo gained independence in 2009 - 1st thing created was a flag
Hobsbawn and Ranger
Nation expands normative idea of inventing home to national scale
Waetjan
Nation connects relations of common ancestries
Kaplan
Nation is exclusive - due to ‘fear of that which is not us’
Manning
US HL mobilizd to justify WoT
Protects US X the foreign - affirms notion of ethnic homog
Despite fact US = ‘melting-pot’ that infers spatial mobility
Walter
9/11 -> suspicion and racial discrim X ethnic mins
Ethnic exclusivity - HL = loss of unifed reality
Walter
SA apartheid
Waetjan 1999
Opening Ceremony of Olympics
Anderson 1991
Urban conviviality
Logic of ethnic absolutism
Gilroy
Imaginations matter - discourses
Allegiance to state - centripetal force to help convince we are all part of the same community
Gregory 2004
Sec, identity and the WoT
Danger = not an objective condition - have to be communicated
Made into public discourses
Climate of suspicion - VISUAL ECON
Grewal
Response to the attacks - differences put under 1 umbrella
Not appreciated or respected equally for their differneces
Livingstone
Muslims made to feel excluded
Portrayed partially as with ‘us’ and yet not quite
Asked to prove allegiance to country
Mamdani
Museumized, exoticised, othered, stagnant, unchanging entities - Muslims
Mamdani
Global city
Closs Stephens