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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... Ian Lang , justified the social and economic changes implemented by successive Conservative governments , in terms of the degree to which they were consonant with Scottishness and indeed allowed Scottishness to be more properly realized ...
... Ian Lang , and the SNP Deputy Leader during the 1992 election , Jim Sillars . In a pre - election public meeting in Falkirk , one of the sites of battle during the Wars of Independence , Sillars produced one of the most elaborated ...
... Ian Lang was asked to choose any event in Scottish history to witness at first hand , he settled for Bruce's victory at Bannockburn . The consequence of the victory was that Scotland could enter the Union as an equal partner : Extract 8 ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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