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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... construction. While they attend to the constructed nature of certain versions of the past, they presuppose their own background version to be neutral and unproblematic. It provides a factual benchmark against which those caught in the ...
... construction and that this construction was put to use by Scottish nationalists, it is equally true that the denial of Scottish cultural antiquity is a construction and that it too advances a nationalist agenda. McCrone points clearly ...
... constructions of nationhood are built in earth and stone as well as in words. There is virtually no domain which has not been enlisted in the contest to fix our national identity and thereby chart our national trajectory. Whichever ...
... construction is almost the mirror image of Jinnah's. It also uses multiple dimensions and in each case argues for ... construction of nation as based on religion would foster division and hence undermine his project. Hence Jinnah uses a ...
... construction of the nation within the same context, and if the same speaker differs in his construction of the nation across different contexts, what remains ever constant is the relationship between the construction of nationhood and ...
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 |