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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... Extract 4 was produced in the course of explaining why the Tories had experienced less electoral success in England than in Scotland , Extract 5 was a response to the interviewer's suggestion that this performance might point to a ...
... Extract 6 and the individualist Fairbairn ( Extract 7 ) in the same boat . The collectivism / individualism distinction likewise distinguishes between the candidates cited in Extracts 8 and 9 . The former sees caring as embodied in a ...
... extracts from the two interviews we held with Fairbairn . The first occurs in the context of a discussion about the SNP and repeats the arguments with which we are now familiar : Extract 7 Only a comparatively small proportion of those ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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