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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... chapter can therefore be read , at least in part , as a critique of the psychology of stereotyping . The second half of the chapter is then devoted to the way in which speakers themselves seek to reify their national stereotypes . There ...
... chapters , of course , is in the aspect of identity with which we have been concerned . In this chapter , all the examples have addressed the content of identity . It could be objected that we have been selective and indeed we have ...
... chapters we tended to focus on the ways in which speakers seek to stop the argument through the invocation of nature , culture and history , in this and the next chapter we balance that through a focus on the complexity of argumentation ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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