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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... turn to nationhood in the study of social psychology . The first and most obvious point is that , if this latter study is concerned with the understanding of behaviour in social context ( cf. Israel & Tajfel , 1972 ) then the context in ...
... turning them to the attacker's disadvantage . For the Conservatives , SNP ' separatism ' meant separating Scotland ... turns the term around : Extract 13 ' Separatism ' is exactly what we've got at the minute . Scotland is separated from ...
... turn on the accuser as truly unpatriotic . An example can be found in another pre - election speech by one of Heseltine's fellow Tory ministers , Peter Lilley : Extract 15 I have never once heard Gordon Brown , John Smith , Donald Dewar ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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