Презентация на тему Intro to Comparative Politics. Ethnic and national identities

of communion with each others even though they have

not met, that is why it is imagined rather than absolute.
Ex: Zhuz? Other Kazakhs?

common political aspirations.

A sense of belonging to a

Nation.

Often but not always derived from an ethnic identity.
Ex: “Ethnic” Russians in KZ.

Can create nationalism: a pride in one’s people and the aspiration to have their own political sovereignty.

process of State formation:

Colonization

Modernization (development of capitalism

+ education systems = common identity).

societies they governed.

They lacked local knowledge and the

people were not necessarily interested in being controlled.

State’s endeavours to consolidate group and national identities in an attempt to render populations more legible. 

Attempt to homogenize and unify by attributing surnames to the population: cases of England, Canada, USA.

Napoleon occupied the Netherlands. They started having a census

for the purpose of taxation, and forced everyone to have a family name.

Zondervan (without a surname)
Suikerbuik (Sugarbelly)
Spring in t Veld (Jump in the Field)
Uiekruier (Onion-crier)
Naaktgeboren (Born naked)
Poepjes (Little shit)
Schooier (Beggar)
Zonderkop (without a head)
Rotmensen (Rotten people)
Zeldenthuis (Rarely at home)
Borst (breast)
Piest (to urinate)
Dick (penis)

modern legal system, regime of property rights, taxation system,

mode of military conscription, etc. 

Intentions are not always “bad”.
Ex: education and healthcare systems.

sense of civic duty.
Mutual responsibilities.
Ex: Canadians in Lebanon in

2006. 15,000 recued → 94 million dollars.

Political and more easily changed.

The basis for patriotism: pride in one’s State and citizenship.

and privileges—and who is a foreigner, the ‘other’ who

is excluded.

An instrument of social enclosure that enables states to control the entry of ‘undesirables’ that would deplete state resources.

of blood)

Citizenship is not determined by place of birth but

by having one or both parents who are citizens of the state.

Children at birth may automatically be citizens if their parents have state citizenship or national identities of ethnic, cultural, or other origins.

Ex: Italy, Germany, Japan, Israel, Ukraine, Greece, etc.

of soil)
Right of anyone born in the territory of a

state to nationality or citizenship.
Birth tourism?

apply!

Some are harder to get than others:
Ex:

Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Austria.

to “naturalized” citizens.

Very controversial measure.