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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... becomes incumbent upon us to investigate the precise ways in which people conceptualize the categories of self and other and how these relate to the shaping of social practices . It also becomes necessary to analyse the particular forms ...
... becomes a challenge , electoral mobilization has a weight akin to military mobilization , even the mundane act of voting becomes an act of battle . Thus a refusal to vote for the SNP and independence is no longer a choice but a weakness ...
... become both more frequent and more elaborate and are applied to one's own nation as well as to others . None of this ... becomes possible to acknowledge that one's national character is not a static entity that is either good or bad but ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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