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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... argument. If nationhood depends upon the mobilization of an ethnic past, then it becomes necessary to define ethnicity in such a way as to determine whose history belongs to whom. That is to say, before one can even interpret a ...
... argument. They exist within the French tradition, but they depend upon a more positive interpretation than that employed so far. Just as ethnicity can be used as a theory of nation formation or else an empirical claim about national ...
... argument is not so much as to whether nations have history or not, but rather about the ways in which nations use historical themes as part of the national imagination. Whether nations are recent or ancient is not the point, what counts ...
... argument does not only apply to the fact of national existence but also the form it takes. History establishes how we must always be by virtue of how we have always been. Or rather 'the sureness of “I was” is a necessary component of ...
... argument and each argument is an argument about the true identity of the nation. Therefore, we need to examine how a given notion of the nation is advanced through the singular and combined use of different domains. Equally, in studying ...
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 |