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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... language of the blood: a call to arms that can end in the horror of ethnic cleansing' (1994). Such concerns lead to a frequent definition of nationalism as a psychological category (Giddens, 1985) and, more particularly, an equation of ...
... language, land, interests nor history: that analysis can deny, but which nonetheless resembles, as by its proven all-powerfulness, passionate love, faith, one of those mysterious possessions which lead man there where he did not know he ...
... language, territory, economic life and psychological make-up manifested in a community of culture' (quoted in No Sizwe, 1979: 181). Like the romantics, then, Stalin starts with language. Certainly, the issue of language is central in ...
... language of the old colonial administrators and without the question of a national language even being an issue. (Anderson, 1983; Schlesinger, 1987). As Anderson argues, Ghanaian nationalism is no less real than Indonesian nationalism ...
... 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 heritage (Balibar ...
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 |