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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... independence - and which was represented by a party with political independence as its defining policy . We spoke to the same MP just after the results of the election were known and it was clear that the SNP had performed far worse ...
... independence in the following terms : ' This sentimental idea that this jolly little taxhaven nation , Ruritanian ... independence . However , this is not inevitably so . Whereas the Conservative MP cited above attributed support for ...
... independence which they don't know they have ... the majority of the people accept the intellectual arguments for their self - government . They know it in the head . The majority of the people in Scotland know it in a sentimental way ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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