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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... speakers were referring. Scotland's history, especially in relation to England and to Great Britain, is long and complicated. After an enduring period of feudal domination by English kings, Scotland finally won its independence after ...
... speaker. In the case of private interviews we have respected the anonymity of the speaker and only identified him or her by a number, political party and by political position. The one exception, in this as in so many other things, is ...
... speakers saw themselves as linked to the Gaels of Ireland (Broun, 1996). So, while there is no doubt that the antiquity of Scottish culture is a construction and that this construction was put to use by Scottish nationalists, it is ...
... speakers in mobilizing people to support their (or rather their party's) political project, the latter point is made even clearer by adding some further words of Jinnah's. In this context he was promoting the inclusion of the whole of ...
... speakers differ in their 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 ...
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 |