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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... future of Scotland , and I want that future to be based on the politics of ideals not identity , of principles not of passports . Our creed is solidarity not separatism and it will always be ' ( 5.3.99 ) . Unsurprisingly , his speech ...
... future . Fairbairn's particular narrative involves a past authenticity that has been lost in the present and which requires present action such that identity may be recovered in the future his call is ' forward to the past ! ' In ...
... future . We can offer you a future worthy of our past ' . The second declares that ' We owe a duty to our homeland . We have a destiny to fulfil . The name of Scotland must be writ large again in the annals of mankind ' . Both therefore ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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