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
... claims concerning the omnipresence of questions about national phenomena. However, of equal importance is his illustration of the ways in which these questions are asked and the presuppositions that allow them to be asked in this way ...
... claiming to discover the single authentic identity which accurately describes what people are like in the here and now, it could be argued that what Hill (and Alexander) unwittingly demonstrate is that there are multiple competing ...
... claiming. We show that they don't only obtain in one small part of one small island on the north western periphery of Western Europe. However we do still tend to follow through our analysis of these relationships by focusing on Scottish ...
... claims that there is something eternal and necessary about them. Smith (1986) refers to the widespread assumption that nations were as natural as the human body itself – an assumption that bridges popular, political and academic divides ...
... claim that it alone, among all others, truly expresses the will of the 'nation' whereas all other parties give only perverted and false expressions of the national will? (1976: 141) The oldest, and probably the most popular attempt to ...
Contents
1 | |
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 |