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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... mobilize the population against the Ottomans. Hungary also provides a good example of the symbolic battleground. After the fall of communism, one of the first tasks facing the newly elected legislative assembly was to restore the emblem ...
... mobilizing people to support their (or rather their party's) political project, the latter point is made even clearer by adding some further words of Jinnah's. In this context he was promoting the inclusion of the whole of Bengal and ...
... mobilizing a constituency (Mare, 1993), parallel moves by President Lennox Sebe to establish a Ciskei national identity largely failed. The anonymous analyst notes that the various attempts to build a national shrine, a 'historical ...
... types of narrative will prove effective and which aspects of any narrative are most important in the creation of national mobilizations. However, as well as raising psychological questions, there is much 26 Self and nation.
... mobilizations go, where those mobilizations are aimed and how those mobilizations are directed. How, then, do these category definitions come about? For self-categorization theory, the categories through which we choose to define ...
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 |