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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... specific, he may wish to make tolerance a central value when it comes to determining 'what is a Scot'. But he takes it as a non-negotiable given that there is a singular and distinctive national identity which is lying out there just ...
... specific to different groups. He describes this 'stratigraphic' approach in the following terms: 'At the level of concrete research and specific analysis, this grand strategy came down, first, to a hunt for universals in culture, for ...
... specific personality characteristic (neuroticism) and 3174 on rats! This is not to deny that there are many papers in which national identity is employed as a dependent or independent variable, but these are cases where the nation is ...
... specific character of certain peoples, things had to happen that way. Poets added a few poems about the calvary of their own people, regarded as heavenly, and the atmosphere of hatred – which became a way of life – started from there ...
... specific versions of history serve to underpin specific ways of imagining specific nations. Throughout the discussion it has either been implicit or else explicit that the importance of these ways of imagining lies in the way that they ...
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 |