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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... Labour MP who was very active in supporting constitutional change ( and who was very prominent in the cross - party campaigns to secure a referendum on constitutional change ) observed that he felt ' absolutely nothing about Bannockburn ...
... Labour Party and for the Conservatives , it made no sense to put those supporting devolution and those favouring independence together in the same category . For example , the Labour MP cited in Extract 7 argued that there was no sense ...
... ( Labour MP , interview 36 ) . If this MP sought to diminish Labour , a fellow Labour MP sought to aggrandize the Conservatives in the course of another interview : Extract 16 The Tories did remarkably well in Scotland . From a party ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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