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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Stephen Reicher, Nick Hopkins. 7 Representing the National Community Titles and entitlement Drawing the boundaries Representatives and representation Conclusion 8 Changing Categories and Changing Contexts New categories for new contexts ...
... national categories a focus of study. Indeed these are glossed over since the nation is only employed as a convenient domain in which to study more general phenomena – stereotyping, intergroup comparison or whatever (cf. Billig, 1995 ...
... national identity is not overtly asserted but rather taken for granted and where a national frame of reference does not lead one to kill but shapes the way one scans and understands a newspaper, one is still invoking a psychological ...
... national consciousness rather than a theoretical model concerning the ... category and exclusion of those beyond it, Montesquieu sees the nation as a ... public meeting held in Glasgow in 1853 where Patrick Dove defined the Association's ...
... national imagination or else one runs the risk of being branded ... classes of condition. The concept of time is an instance of the representational conditions ... categories becomes viable and meaningful when it corresponds to and makes ...
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 |