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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... seek agreement with others who are included within the collective self - definition . In specific terms , members of any given group will behave in the terms on which the relevant self - category is defined . Self - categories provide ...
... seek mass support would have it that they speak for the nation . They will seek to present themselves alone as prototypical while their opponents by their person or their acts place themselves outside the national community or even set ...
... seek to mobilize all within a bounded territory , will seek to make principles and policies the expression of national identity . To take just one example , Montesquieu argued in his De l'Esprit des Lois ( Book XX ) that government ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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