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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... dimension to the definition of nations does not mean ignoring other dimensions. In Anderson's case, quite the opposite is true. His analysis centres on the material conditions of national subjectivity and may best be seen as ...
... dimension, so our understanding of social psychology will gain by an explicit consideration of national phenomena. To understand how people assume and act in terms of national identity, when national identity leads to international ...
... dimension. Secondly, it is necessary to have a print language accessible throughout the community and through which the national idea can be communicated. For instance, newspapers allow events to be brought together because of their ...
... dimension of nationhood is not simply a matter of constraints upon the professional trajectories of functionaries. Rather, it comes to structure our everyday social reality on both an institutional and face-to-face level (James, 1996) ...
... dimensions through which nations in general are imagined. Or, as we put it above, what do we mean by a national imagination and what is it that makes this imagination specifically national? In order to provide a response, we shall re ...
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 |