{"id":2087,"date":"2021-02-08T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:58:43","slug":"nation-in-transnational-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/2021\/02\/08\/nation-in-transnational-history\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Nation’ in Transnational History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During our discussion in week two I struggled with reconciling or understanding the parameters and definitions of \u2018nation\u2019 under which transnational history operates under. This weeks reading helped me understand the development of nations and why they exist he way they do, in particular in Sebastian Conrad\u2019s book Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany. <\/em>Conrad asserts that through their inspiration of the Grande Nation, <\/em>western Europe transformed itself from a patchwork of minor states into a landscape of nations. The late nineteenth century was an era of worldwide interaction and exchange. It was generally assumed that nations developed into modern nation states, then they would gradually enter into contact with each other, begin to become international, and start to engage in global trade and world politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            \u201cThe family became the clan; a combination of clans become the state and the nations, and finally, the close links between nations developed into intersectionality,\u2019 August Babel asserts. First the nation, then the interconnections: this is called the paradigm of consecutively, a odel of stages of global development. While the readings this week helped me with understanding the place \u2018nation\u2019 had in transnational history it is because I understood the creation of nation states. The model that Babel introduces is what was applied to the world, it is a western model. Nations do not and cannot all \u2018develop\u2019 or \u2018progress\u2019 in a linear and categorical way. It is the same as categorizing countries as \u2018first world\u2019 or \u2018third world.\u2019 You are making places adhere to a system that they did not create nor ideologically believe in or stand by. Why is one countries idea of development the correct one? Why are we working towards the \u2018goal\u2019 of a developed country modeled by the west? What would have happened if these communities had been given voices and autonomy to develop and advance their societies in whichever way they choose to even if its deemed as \u2018under developed\u2019 or \u2018behind.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            It is my belief that \u2018nation\u2019 in transnational history is there to break the ideas and conceptions of what a nation is. Looking at the ebbs and flows between different cultures. Looking at \u2018internal nations\u2019 if you will, we can track the \u2018development\u2019 and \u2018advancement\u2019 of nations outside of the prescribed theories we have been taught and exposed to throughout our academic life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During our discussion in week two I struggled with reconciling or understanding the parameters and definitions of \u2018nation\u2019 under which transnational history operates under. This weeks reading helped me understand the development of nations and why they exist he way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5wNtZ-xF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transnationalhistory.net\/doing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}