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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... identity is not overtly asserted but rather taken for granted and where a ... social scientific analyses, an understanding of nations and nationalism ... identity without understanding how people come to assume and inhabit such identities ...
... identity lead to violence against members of other nations? How is it that ... social and the psychological rather than subsuming one under the other, we ... social psychology in the study of nationhood, let us turn to nationhood in the ...
... social psychological research, it is often the nation that social ... identity tradition (Tajfel, 1978, 1982; Tajfel & Turner, 1986). Part of the ... social group in such a way as to understand how people who are not co-present and have ...
... social psychology will gain by an explicit consideration of national phenomena. To understand how people assume and act in terms of national identity, when national identity leads to international conflict, and how distant pasts can ...
... social science to identify methodology with some limited portion of the act of scientific inquiry, and further, to ... identity is even more ambivalent! In the political domain, Rosa Luxemburg drew on these difficulties to argue against ...
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 |