This assignment requires you to connect various class readings to a series of questions and prompts about key themes and topics relevant to global affairs. No outside research is necessary. Please provide your responses in the form of a typed document (Style: Times New Roman, size 12 font, double-spaced). You must clearly number each response to ensure that it aligns with the proper question or prompt. Any time you refer to a specific class reading (including any paraphrased information from class readings) you should provide full in-text citations in APA format. At the end of the assignment, one Reference List (with bibliographical information for all references used) should also be included. Your responses will be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria: accuracy of information, depth of analysis, critical and integrative thinking, relevance, structure, coherence, and use of college-level writing skills and vocabulary.
Note: For full credit, each well-developed response should cite or refer to at least 2 class readings from the list below (per prompt so it total you should’ve used 6 DIFFERENT texts from the list provided bellow)
the following are the questions you have to answer.
1) Based primarily on the class readings below, please discuss the process of nation-building in relation to social constructionism. What does this often entail? How do nations come into being socially? How are nations often socially reified, consolidated, and reproduced? What social processes/mechanisms contribute to nation-building? Please use specific references, definitions, and examples from course readings to support your response.
2) Drawing on what you know from class readings below about nation-building and social constructionism, please respond to the following prompt: Imagine that you are the leader and founder of a new independent and sovereign country (nation-state). Please select a name for your new country and discuss how you might specifically go about creating and promoting a new national identity? What specific steps might you take to encourage your people to begin to imagine and believe that they belong to your new political community? What institutions might you need to establish to support your new social order and/or promote the legitimacy of your new nation? Please develop a detailed plan of action.
3) Based primarily on the class readings below, please discuss how the social construct of race has been various employed over the years to support political projects of colonization, imperialism, nation-building, and/or social injustice. In your response, please use specific examples, references, and definitions from the readings to support your claims. (You can focus your response on any relevant examples of policies, events, or activities discussed in the readings.) Additionally, please be sure to define and explain “racialization” and/or social construction of race in relation to prompt.
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