Week 4/5: Nationalism

Question 1

Taylor

Answer 1

Nations are created and reflect the politics in which they are made

Question 2

Hobsbawn (1990)

Answer 2

Getting it’s history wrong is part of being a nation

Question 3

Weber (1979)

Answer 3

explores transformation of rural french - peasants into citizens with a sense of national french identity

Question 4

Economic views of nationalism

Answer 4

Michael Hetcher and Tom Nair
- nationalism is related to uneven development

Question 5

Political/ cultural views of nationalism

Answer 5

Ernest Gellner and Benedict Anderson
- nations as ‘imagined communities’ linked to changes in education and media

Question 6

Hetcher (1978)

Answer 6

Internal colonialism - framework for understanding power dynamics/ inequalities within nation states between dominant core regions and marginalised peripheral region

• highlights how colonial like relationships can perpetuate uneven development

Question 7

Gellner

Answer 7

Role of education and social mobility in creating “homogenous” cultures in national states

• idea of ‘blockages’ leading to creation of own state of minority intelligals

Question 8

Anderson (1983, 1991)

Answer 8

Imagined communities - argues factors contributing to the rise of nationalism are:
* capitalism
* print technology
* increased importance of vernacular languages

Question 9

Smith (1998)

Answer 9

‘…. a global map of ‘print communities’ does not correposond with one of emerging nations’

Question 10

Everyday nationalism key writers

Answer 10

Ernest Renan and Michael Billing

Question 11

Renan (1982)

Answer 11

the nation as a ‘daily plebiscite’ - emphasises ongoing everyday affirmation of national identity

Question 12

Billing (1995)

Answer 12

Banal nationalism - subtle, mundane ways in which nationalist ideologies are reproduced and reinforced in everyday life

Question 13

Anderson (1983) - Imagined communities readings

Answer 13

Proposes the definition of nation: ‘ it is an imagined political community and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign
- imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members

Question 14

Colley (1701) - reading

Answer 14

• Union joined Scotland to England to Wales
• traditional loyalties to monarchs began to give way to growing sense of attachment to nation as political entity
• spread of print culture facilitated dissemination of nationalist ideas

Question 15

Murray low - reading

Answer 15

• theorists of nationalism have focused on the relationships of nationalism to modern states and on the historical transformations that have made national identity possible
• very difficult to explain because there is a lack of agreement over what it is because its changing character to different context