Modern Roots: Studies of National Identity (In association with ICCR Contemporary Trends in European Social Sciences) - Hardcover

Dieckhoff, Alain; Gutiérrez, Natividad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754611523 ISBN 13: 9780754611523

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

Interest in the study of national identity as a collective phenomenon is a growing concern among the social and political sciences. This book addresses the scholarly interest in examining the origins of ideologies and social practices that give historical meaning, cohesion and uniqueness to modern national communities. It focuses on the various routes taken towards the construction of cultural authenticity as an inspirational purpose of nation-building and reveals the diversity of the themes, practices and symbols used to encourage self-identification and communality. Among the techniques explored are the dramatization of suffering and tragedy, the exaltation of heroes and deeds, the evocation of landscape, nature and the arts and the delimitation of collective values to be pursued during reconstruction in post-war periods.

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Alain Dieckhoff, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, France Natividad Gutiérrez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754611523
• ISBN 13: 9780754611523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318