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 |
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... be seen as introducing a stress on the practical–experiential dimension of the nation. That is, the use of national categories becomes viable and meaningful when it corresponds to and makes sense of the ways 14 Self and nation.
Stephen Reicher, Nick Hopkins. when it corresponds to and makes sense of the ways in which one's activities are structured and the way one is treated by others. To view Anderson's arguments in this way is to open up fields of ...
... sense of a political project he prefers to call a 'national movement'. What he calls nationalism, others refer to as 'national identity' or 'nationality' (James, 1996; Parekh, 1995; Shils, 1995). If one uses these wider definitions then ...
... sense, nationalized the culture. In doing so, they had fixed the way of defining the nation, determined its characteristics – what are the essential properties of being Ruritanian? – and provided criteria for citizenship' (1996: 7–8) ...
... sense can they protect themselves from the treatment they mete out to others? This point can be illustrated by reference to the treatment of Scottish history and the assault that is mounted upon the antiquity of Ossian's poetry, of ...
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 |