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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... nationalism remains an evil and the nationalist is either a dupe or duplicitous - hardly an appealing choice ! Of course , in the hands of Labour , attacks on nationalism constituted a double- edged sword for not only did Labour support ...
... nationalism . First of all , they suggest that there are different forms of nationalism . For instance , in its second issue , the left - leaning nationalist quarterly Liberation bemoaned the fact that , although the people of Greenland ...
... nationalist ideology and we must also be alert to the ways in which the nationalism that permeates contemporary common - sense results in a psychology which is itself ' nationalized ' . Indeed , at various junctures throughout our text ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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