concepts of nation, power and difference.

  Order Description   QUESTIONS 1. What does it mean to think about nations as “Imagined communities”? (Anderson, Bennett, Williams) 2. It is possible to think about the concept of nation without understanding and critiquing dominant discourses of race/class/gender/sexuality? (Griffin, Ken, hooks) 3. What does slavery have to do with the formation of nations and identity and difference (Hall) 4. Foucault’s work on power brings together different elements of power with an emphasis on relations of power. Give an example of Foucauldian analysis of power relations (St Pierre)