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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... psychology is as thoroughly haunted by the nation as the nation is haunted by psychology . In consequence , just as our understanding of national phenomena will gain by addressing the psychological dimension , so our under- standing of ...
Stephen Reicher, Nick Hopkins. 9 Nationalist Psychology and the Psychology of Nationhood A choice of sides Throughout this book we have sought to develop and to illustrate a psychological analysis of nations and nationalism . At the same ...
... psychology , is to eschew all forms of psychological analysis . If psy- chology reifies the world , if it colludes with nationalists in denying people choice over the worlds that they wish to inhabit , then a plague on psychology in any ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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