The Nation-State, Globalization, and Neoliberalism

Question 1

5 Interconnected “Scapes”

Answer 1

• Mediascapes
• Ethnoscapes
• Financescapes
• Technoscapes
• Ideoscapes

Question 2

Nation-State

Answer 2

A political community that has clearly defined territorial borders and centralized authority

Question 3

State

Answer 3

A territory considered as an organized political community

Question 4

Nation

Answer 4

A collection of people who share a common language, worldview and ancestry

Question 5

Neo-Liberalism

Answer 5

An economic philosophy that argues for minimal government involvement in the economy and greatly accelerated economic growth

Question 6

Common Characteristics of Neo-Liberalism

Answer 6

• Sustained economic growth as a means of achieving human
  progress
• Confidence in free markets as the most efficient allocation of
  resources
• Minimal state intervention in economic affairs
• Commitment to freedom of trade and capital

Question 7

Market externalities

Answer 7

Costs that are not included in the prices people pay

Question 8

Hidden costs

Answer 8

Environment, conversion, of wetlands, health effects, slave-like conditions on sugar plantations, poor wages of workers, profit for corporations, state subsiding cost, etc

Question 9

Role of the Nation-State in Production-Consumption

Answer 9

1) Absorbing environmental damage costs caused by sugar production
2) Setting import quotas on sugar imports
3) Enacting unjust labour laws or facilitating the outsourcing of labour
4) Providing infrastructure for production and distribution of goods
5) Providing fuel subsidies that enable movement of goods
6) Reducing corporate taxes

Question 10

Economic Systems

Answer 10

The rules, mechanisms, institutions, and systems of relations through which goods and services are distributed and people get what they want

Question 11

Markets

Answer 11

Places where people bring their goods for sale or barter

Question 12

Capitalism

Answer 12

An economic system in which private actor own and control property in accord with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that can serve the best interest of society

Question 13

Adam Smith

Answer 13

Believed the markets were self-regulating

Question 14

Free Trade

Answer 14

Removal of barriers to the free flow of goods and capitol between nations

Question 15

Nationalist Populist Movement

Answer 15

Forms of nationalism that represent a reaction against various forces or neoliberalism

Question 16

Nations must Share:

Answer 16

• Culture
• Language
• Heritage
  -Willingness to be a nation

Question 17

Othering

Answer 17

To create a national identity, the state needs to create others (created through physical borders and arbitrary criteria)

Question 18

Multiculturalism

Question 19

Multiculturalism

Answer 19

“involves a process of engaging diversity as different yet
equal” (Fleras and Elliot)
“a Canadian policy in which all hyphenated cultures, such as African Canadian and French Canadian, are described and celebrated as part of a “cultural mosaic (Eva Mackey)
(Prime minister Pierre Trudeau announced a multicultural policy in 1971)

Question 20

Creating Nation-States

Answer 20

Common identity
Common language
Means of travel
National media
Bureaucracy
Judicial system
Military
Education system

Question 21

Indigenism

Answer 21

An international, collaborative movement that aims to protect the rights and livelihoods of indigenous peoples

Question 22

Nuxalk Art

Answer 22

Cultural symbols typically used in local art are now used on tourist items