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| 0621-1184-01 | Identity and Nationalism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
The objective of this course is to clarify key terms and concepts in nationalism-related fields of political and academic thought. When we talk about peoples, what do we mean? What is the difference between nations and peoples? Are all imagined communities nations? What makes national identity so powerful? How does nationality relate to sovereignty, social classes, language, religion, territory? Is there any difference between national identities in western culture and national identities in other cultures? Why does every national identity consider itself unique, and how different is one national identity from another? Questions such as these will be at our course infrastructure. The lectures will go beyond theoretical conceptual discussions. Different national historiographies will be scrutinized and considered alongside narratives alternative to the
accepted traditional stories of peoples and nations.
accepted traditional stories of peoples and nations.