Self and NationSAGE Publications, 2001 M05 1 - 256 pages Self and Nation is a lively and accessible exploration of the issues related to nationhood, nationalism and national identity. The authors challenge common assumptions of what 'national identity' means by addressing key concepts of identity, national character, national history and nationalist psychology. How do constructions of national identity affect the way people act, are mobilized, transform societies, create nations and reshape nations where they already exist? This book shows how the central notion of national identity is used by politicians and activists in support of attempts to create different types of nations. Self and Nation will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in social psychology, politics, sociology and social anthropology. |
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... English and Welsh are entirely secondary . Its most passionate advocate in the 1992 election campaign was the Prime Minister , John Major . In a speech delivered in that most English of English towns - the south coast English holiday ...
... English liberty , a SCOTCH SCRAMBLE for English property ' ( cited in Colley , 1992 : 116 ) . Reviewing these sentiments Colley observes that they held that ' alien men and alien attitudes from North Britain had finally succeeded in ...
... English are ' most likely to be found enjoying the good life in the country - our country . Scotland is divided up on ethnic lines - the Scots are getting the left - overs ' ( p . 6 ) . - At the heart of this analysis is a definition of ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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