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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... nature of the mobilization through which class politics are to be pursued . Nation is therefore crucial to politicians not because they are right or left but because they use an electoral strategy , just as alternatives to the nation ...
... Nature ' ( 1946 : 16 ) . Whereas some social psychologists have sought to investigate the degree to which character and climate are correlated ( Pennebaker , Rime & Blankenship , 1996 ) our concern is with the way in which talk about ...
... nature ' as such , only a diversity of contested natures : and that each such nature is constituted through a variety of socio - cultural processes from which such natures cannot be plausibly separated ' ( p . 1 ) . However , their ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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