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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... projects for the future as to describing the present state of the nation . That is precisely what we will argue . We ... project and is thereby instrumental in directing the evolution of our social world . For us , the link between ...
... project . This explains both the commonality and the variability between them . Those who share political projects tend to advance similar constructions even if different terms are used : Extract 6's depiction of the Scots as ' anti ...
... projects that are possible . Thus , if the recategorization of pre- election foes as movement allies is testimony to the active construction of dimensions of similarity / difference , it is also testimony to the ways in which political ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
Copyright | |
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