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 |
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... 204 Psychology in the service of nationalism 205 Psychology and the analysis of nationhood 216 Conclusion 222 References 223 Author Index 235 Subject Index 239 Preface Proverbs for Paranoids, 3. If they can get you vi Contents.
... reference does not lead one to kill but shapes the way one scans and understands a newspaper, one is still invoking a psychological category. One is dealing with the ways in which people understand who they are, the nature of the world ...
... references to nationality that we found in recent text books, present the Katz and Braly results in a three-quarter page box under the heading 'National Stereotypes in the United States' and they then ask 'following are the four ...
... reference to the treatment of Scottish history and the assault that is mounted upon the antiquity of Ossian's poetry, of kilts and of clan tartans. While Hobsbawm suggests that the works attributed to the ancient bard were in fact a ...
... reference to the built environment and even to the physical environment. In all of these domains, one can find different versions of the phenomena used to support different visions of national identity. As an example of how icons are ...
Contents
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28 | |
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 |