Self and NationSAGE, 2000 M12 18 - 256 pages A `RARE BOOK′ FROM LOCAL AUTHORS `Here is a rare book, a truly helpful piece of work on the psychology of nationalism. Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins, of St Andrews and Dundee Universities, focus much of their study of recent Scottish experience, drawing on inter-views with political activists. The cast light on why our `Unionists′ and nationalists feel so sure their side represents our national identity and the other lot doesn′t. For once it is a compliment to say a book raises more questions than it answers. Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins open up large questions closer inspection′ - Glasgow Herald `In this impressive book Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins draw from a wealth of research to address issues of nationality, national identity and nationalism that lie at the heart of core topics in social psychology and its cognate disciplines. They have produced a powerful and scholarly text that interweaves an abundance of rich empirical data with a broad-reaching and timely theoretical statement. Moreover, the content is not confined to matters of national identity but also extends to treatments of stereotyping, prejudice, intergroup conflict, leadership, collective action, and the self .... For all these reasons, the book should serve essential and compelling reading for a very broad audience′ - S Alexander Haslam, Australian National University `Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins write with elegance and clarity, drawing the reader into their argument, without losing any of its complexity and nuance. This book deserves to make a major impact in studies of nationalism. It ought to become a classic.... I′m quite bowled over - it′s really brilliant′ - David McCrone, Edinburgh University |
From inside the book
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... Tajfel, 1972) then the context in which we act is a world of nations. For Eric Hobsbawm, the twentieth century both began and concluded as an era of nationalism. The national conflicts that tore Europe apart in the 1990s were the old ...
... (Tajfel, 1978, 1982; Tajfel & Turner, 1986). Part of the appeal of the theory is that it seeks to explain the behaviour of large-scale collectivities and not just the small groups of traditional laboratory research. So, when Tajfel seeks ...
... (Tajfel, 1978, 1982; Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher & Wetherell, 1987) and also upon psychological analyses of national identity (Billig, 1995, 1996; Condor, 1996, 1997, 2000a, in press). However it is necessary to start off by ...
... Tajfel and his colleagues – particularly by John Turner. In the first place, this is probably the dominant paradigm for the study of group processes within contemporary psychology. In the second place, as we have seen, Tajfel's very ...
... Tajfel's ideas on social identity were deeply influenced by two sets of social concerns and intellectual preoccupations. Ironically, the more immediate social influence gave rise to the broader intellectual framework, while distal ...
Contents
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3 Nation and Mobilization | 53 |
4 National Identity and International Relations | 77 |
5 In Quest of National Character | 100 |
6 Lessons in National History | 131 |
7 Representing the National Community | 152 |
8 Changing Categories and Changing Contexts | 181 |
9 Nationalist Psychology and the Psychology of Nationhood | 204 |
References | 223 |
Author Index | 235 |
Subject Index | 239 |