Lecture 3

Question 1

What is nationalism?

Answer 1

• Ideology and movement, nation and state
  -political and social development where to get rome here
  -not just ideas but a movement of people who try to create a nation, which is seen as the realisation of theology of the state

-development of nationalism isn’t directly linked to creation of ns many reason why they emerged that played a role in creating and transformation of states

Question 2

to different ways of looking at nationalism and ns

Answer 2

emic- perspective of the first person- I how I look at things that I am involved in the way I see the things that I do
Etic- Outside/ third person perspective you may think you are doing something but looking on the outside I think you are doing something different
-emic is those in nationalist movement what goal they are trying to achieve and its from that perspective people have an idea of the ns

Question 3

emic

Answer 3

• nation is old/ acient starts in remote period which is hard to grasp
• exist in premitive state in the form of what people share like language, culture, religious beliefs, history
  -seen as an awakening
• remote past- fight and resistance against roman rule forms core of nationalism- most nations start in defeated being pressed by romans so resentment they fight against all odds
• nations become awakened if they have their own state
  Frichte and HEARDER
  -folk songs
  -anti individualist they can only exist if they are apart of the nation you are nothing if not apart of the collective nation hearder
• frichte argues the same but emphasises why does this happen why do people want to belong? because they want eternal life be apart of something larger
• fichte nation develop in their own way is crucial radical consequence he arguesif you don’t have this you cease to be a nation anything alien to nation should be avoided see nation purity forming

Question 4

critique of the emic perspective

Answer 4

• nation has no fixed basis in language culture of history
  -remembering is forgetting
• the nation is a daily plebiscite
  -no shared language in France, culture of boreoughse in pairs is different from those who live in the farms, religious wars in 16th century c v p
  -nation is a deliberate decision by people to say we belong together its self constituting something come into being by an act in the present not the past that is an illusion

Question 5

etic

Answer 5

• nationalism and ns is the result of nationalist movement but these movement create a sense of identity and claim a state and as a result these states emerged
• 3 stages of development in nationalist movement
  1. intellectual formulate ideas eg hearder
  2. they find people who share those ideas and who organise themselves to develop propaganda
  3. propaganda supported by larger groups of people
• ## the grimm brothers collected stories and present them as folk stories by reworking them to be more exciting to be sold and make money

Question 6

gellner and hobsbawm: econ intergration

Answer 6

• civilc servants political elites those apart of the state are the ones who start these movements/ people in political power
• formation of nation is functional necessity in modernising societies mobalisation due to the IR move from rural to urban and people need to learn to work together. they need to have means to understand each other as they didn’t have same language culture or history just strangers
• to work together and trust each other they need to have a sense of community this imposed top down not bottom up consist of a programme of education states meddle with education
• ideas of elementary school and the curriculum and skills they have to develop, standardisation of language 1830s onwards in nl
• even nationalising states need to work with something so there are old stories, habits and culture already circulating but what nationalist and govt pick these things and identify it and say this is what the nation is about
• IR only happens in few places in Europe where are not the best example of nationalisation and you see it in places like spain with less IR

Question 7

tilly and colley: IR

Answer 7

• michael mann argues same line
• IR is when people become part of nation
• ideas of nation is formulated in contrast english because you arent french
• common in all approaches- these ideas need to spread and to become a force that mobalises a lot of people they need to be reached

Question 8

anderson: Media revolution

Answer 8

• imagined communities- nationalism creates this as a resolut of media revolution ie development of the press from technocoligical change for steam driven press create newspaper at a much larger scale
  -technicological change for new tech for publicising pictures and photography became a means to make ideas idea assessible for more

Question 9

who is the people

Answer 9

etnos (original)
Urvolk (primitive)
Stakeholders (interest) material
Shareholders (contribution)

Question 10

national integration: Age of territoriality

Answer 10

• territorial re-scaling
  -energizing the territory
  -measures of nation strength: GDP, lebensraum

Question 11

national interation: nationalisation of the masses

Answer 11

• mobalization
  -assimilation
• genocide
  commit and obey in whatever the state wants to achieve as seen in mussilinis regime unites italians and in Germany under hitler. those who don’t fit the nationon or have objections to it they’re even as a problem to be assimulated