Self and Nation,9780761969198

Self and Nation

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ISBN13: 9780761969198
ISBN10: 0761969195
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-05-01
Publisher(s): Sage Publications Ltd
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Summary

Self and Nation is a lively and accessible exploration of the issues related to nationhood, nationalism and national identity. The authors challenge common assumptions of what 'national identity' means by addressing key concepts of identity, national character, national history and nationalist psychology. How do constructions of national identity affect the way people act, are mobilized, transform societies, create nations and reshape nations where they already exist? This book shows how the central notion of national identity is used by politicians and activists in support of attempts to create different types of nations.Self and Nation will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in social psychology, politics, sociology and social anthropology.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
The National Question
1(27)
Psychology in a world of nations
1(6)
Defining issues
7(7)
Nation, imagination and contestation
14(11)
Conclusion
25(3)
Psychology and Nationhood
28(25)
On the character of nations
28(4)
Social identity in social psychology
32(12)
Social identity in practice
44(6)
Conclusion: social identity and the nation
50(3)
Nation and Mobilization
53(24)
Invoking the nation
53(9)
Nations and others: identifying the other
62(6)
Non-national politics
68(7)
Conclusion
75(2)
National Identity and International Relations
77(23)
National identification and intergroup relations
77(8)
National values and international relations
85(7)
Metaphors and relations
92(6)
Conclusion
98(2)
In Quest of National Character
100(31)
A singular quest
100(4)
Forming the national character
104(6)
Covering the tracks
110(19)
Conclusion
129(2)
Lessons in National History
131(21)
Heroes
131(7)
Identity and history
138(12)
Conclusion
150(2)
Representing the National Community
152(29)
Titles and entitlement
152(2)
Drawing the boundaries
154(13)
Representatives and representation
167(12)
Conclusion
179(2)
Changing Categories and Changing Contexts
181(23)
New categories for new contexts
181(7)
Category shifts
188(13)
Conclusion
201(3)
Nationalist Psychology and the Psychology of Nationhood
204(19)
A choice of sides
204(1)
Psychology in the service of nationalism
205(11)
Psychology and the analysis of nationhood
216(6)
Conclusion
222(1)
References 223(12)
Author Index 235(4)
Subject Index 239

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