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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... means more than collision with God's natural law. It means an effort to shirk a divinely established duty or task' (quoted in No Sizwe, 1979: 23). According to Regis Debray, they embody a natural logic: 'We must locate the nation ...
... means of mobilization than essential to nationhood. To claim that the nation needs to be contained in its own ... mean by England' in the following terms: 'The tinkle of the hammer on the anvil in the country smithy, the corncrake on a ...
... means of defining boundaries amongst many. To re-label these arguments about nationhood in national terms, it could be said that the French tradition, in which the nation is seen as a contract between free and equal individuals ...
... means of imagining. Thirdly, the boundaries of social opportunity need to be coterminous with national frontiers. Especially in the colonial setting, if functionaries can move freely across territories and prosper anywhere then national ...
... means a state of mind in which the interests and values of one's own nation are prioritized above those of other ... mean by a national imagination and what is it that makes this imagination specifically national? In order to provide a ...
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 |