Self and NationSAGE, 18.12.2000 г. - 256 страници 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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... depends upon the mobilization of an ethnic past, then it becomes necessary to define ethnicity in such a way as to ... depend upon a presumed identity. Indeed, as a number of authors have noted, the notion that we, along with those in ...
... depends upon a sense of common descent (Weber, 1968). To put it somewhat differently, even if nations are not necessarily ethnic, they are ethnocentric and even if they are not racial they are racist. Since this is an empirical claim it ...
... depend upon a more positive interpretation than that employed so far. Just as ethnicity can be used as a theory of nation formation or else an empirical claim about national consciousness, so the same can be said of the civic approach ...
... depend upon acts of imagination, indeed Balibar (1991a) makes this claim of all communities. What is important, then, is not simply that the nation is imagined but the style in which it is imagined. The nation is imagined as limited ...
... depends on whether one thinks the essential significance of the story lies in the figure of Ossian himself or in the establishment of a Scottish literary antiquity and, if the latter, where one locates the roots of the Scots – many of ...
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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 |