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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... present their policies as distinctive in this respect and to present the positions of their rivals as subverting national identity and hence being against the national interest . An implication of this is that there will be highly ...
... present and which requires present action such that identity may be recovered in the future his call is ' forward to the past ! ' In Fairbairn's own terms , a unique independence of mind is being destroyed through comprehensive ...
... present social relations as the same as those some seven hundred years earlier . However , there is a different way of invoking Bannockburn . It becomes no less important in defining current reality . In this other version , Bannockburn ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
Copyright | |
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