Geog. 4712 Fall 2010 Recitation Week 2 Taylor and Flint, Nationalism “banal nationalism” (Billig) – give some familiar examples 2 main schools – primordialist and modernist approaches French Revolution as the first self-conscious modern nationalism Note p 198 – nationalist propositions related to the scales of reality (world), nation-state and individual-locality Why invent traditions? E.g Scottish kilts – any examples from the US experience What are iconographic landscapes? - examples from the US How propaganda cartography is used to make a nationalist claim for a specific territorial limit If there are 589 nations and only 164 states, why are so many nations quiescent? What galvanizes nationalist mobilization?Nationalism and unequal development – (Marxist) Nationalism as an “imagined community” (Anderson) - role of literacy in expanding the community Nations in a globalizing world – layered identities – emergence of European identity Why is nationalism referred to as a “modern Janus” Define and give example of 5 kinds of nationalismAnderson - Imagined Communities: Why is a nation a limited, sovereign and imagined community? Why is nationalism a product of industrial and industrializing societies? Why is print capitalism critical for understanding the growth of modern nationalism? What are the “languages of power”? How do their definition contribute to the growth of nationalism? What was the role of colonial powers in defining (making) nations? Census – ethnic/racial classifications? Why was boundary making by European colonial powers in the late 19th century important for nationalism? Map-making Why do “nations” and “national governments” spend so much effort to make museums that mark and define the archaeology of the nation?
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