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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... equally work against the weight of intellectual assumptions . In talking about identity as a matter of becoming , we are breaking with the perceptualism that has dominated social psychology for half a century and more . We are ...
... equally those , like Labour and the Liberal Democrats , who , wittingly or unwittingly , would condone the break up of Britain . If Labour is on the receiving end of Conservative anti - nationalism , they are equally adept at handing it ...
... equally spread throughout Britain . A constitutional dispensation north of the border would abandon the great majority of Scots - four out of every five- who are south of the border . It would also include the many English people in ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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