1. Cultural Identities ‘ Britishness’

6. Culture & Identity CULTURES IDENTITIES language beliefs/value s signs/symbols art religion can be markers of them and us, origins of sameness and difference can create narratives and rituals that historically define identities can provide core sense of self and community

8. Borders: Europe 1000 AD

9. Borders: Europe 1999 AD

15. Summary How might you represent their interrelationships diagrammatically? Nationalism Smith Nation-state Anderson Nation Gellner State Key Theories Key Concepts

16. NATIONS AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES STATES NATION-STATES NATIONALISM POLITICAL CULTURAL national identities can develop to produce nationalism Political nationalism can lead To the creation of nation-states Summary

17. NATIONS AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES STATES NATION-STATES NATIONALISM POLITICAL CULTURAL national identities can develop to produce nationalism Political nationalism can lead To the creation of nation-states 1. 2. 3. ? ? ? Summary

18. Summary Smith Anderson Gellner Fate of other cultures Key claims Origins of nations Key claims Origins of nation-states Key claims Theorist

19. Summary Must begin from pre-modern ethnic cores or ethnies War and inter-state system Smith Can lead to peripheral nationalism Imagined by elites and new mass literate politics War and inter-state system Anderson Peripheral cultures quashed. Folk cultures eradicated Imposed from above, by nation-building state elites Gellner Fate of other cultures Key claims Origins of nations Key claims Origins of nation-states Key claims Theorist

20. Culture & Identity CULTURES IDENTITIES language beliefs/value s signs/symbols art religion can be markers of them and us, origins of sameness and difference can create narratives and rituals that historically define identities can provide core sense of self and community