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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... ethnic or even racial heritage ( Balibar , 1991a ; Mosse , 1995 ) . Such claims have tended to be associated with the rejection or even the annihilation of those who are positioned as ethnic outsiders and , in consequence , have not so ...
... ethnic past , then it becomes necessary to define ethnicity in such a way as to determine whose history belongs to whom . That is to say , before one can even interpret a particular discovery as ' our history ' one has to agree on what ...
... ethnic terms even if that ethnicity is fictitious . This represents an empirical claim about the nature of national consciousness rather than a theoretical model concerning the conditions of national consciousness . The distinction ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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