Self and NationSAGE, 2000 M12 18 - 256 pages A `RARE BOOK′ FROM LOCAL AUTHORS `Here is a rare book, a truly helpful piece of work on the psychology of nationalism. Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins, of St Andrews and Dundee Universities, focus much of their study of recent Scottish experience, drawing on inter-views with political activists. The cast light on why our `Unionists′ and nationalists feel so sure their side represents our national identity and the other lot doesn′t. For once it is a compliment to say a book raises more questions than it answers. Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins open up large questions closer inspection′ - Glasgow Herald `In this impressive book Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins draw from a wealth of research to address issues of nationality, national identity and nationalism that lie at the heart of core topics in social psychology and its cognate disciplines. They have produced a powerful and scholarly text that interweaves an abundance of rich empirical data with a broad-reaching and timely theoretical statement. Moreover, the content is not confined to matters of national identity but also extends to treatments of stereotyping, prejudice, intergroup conflict, leadership, collective action, and the self .... For all these reasons, the book should serve essential and compelling reading for a very broad audience′ - S Alexander Haslam, Australian National University `Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins write with elegance and clarity, drawing the reader into their argument, without losing any of its complexity and nuance. This book deserves to make a major impact in studies of nationalism. It ought to become a classic.... I′m quite bowled over - it′s really brilliant′ - David McCrone, Edinburgh University |
From inside the book
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... argument just one step further, we can see that national singularity is not entirely unrelated to the opposition between disintegration and integration. He writes: If the generalizations in this book do something to correct the ...
... argument was based largely on the analysis of how Scottish politicians and the Scottish media and activists in the various struggles around the formation of a Scottish parliament used and contested the idea of Scottish nationhood. While ...
... argument, it might be ignored as being 'only about Scotland'. So, in the re-written text, we use examples from all around the globe as evidence of the identity–action relationships which we are claiming. We show that they don't only ...
... argument will be devoted to showing that this is no paradox at all and that, far from being contradictory, these two sides of the phenomenon are interdependent. However that is to get far ahead of ourselves. The more obvious and ...
... argument that language, character, culture and so on are consequences of common ethnicity. To take the argument in its crude form, the existence and the membership of nations can be identified through a common ethnic or even racial ...
Contents
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3 Nation and Mobilization | 53 |
4 National Identity and International Relations | 77 |
5 In Quest of National Character | 100 |
6 Lessons in National History | 131 |
7 Representing the National Community | 152 |
8 Changing Categories and Changing Contexts | 181 |
9 Nationalist Psychology and the Psychology of Nationhood | 204 |
References | 223 |
Author Index | 235 |
Subject Index | 239 |